Pool problems on startup

[stma]

Mike, I kinda lost my green tint a little, but I'll tackle that when this thing de-fogs ( if it ever does).. Back in your first or second post, you mentioned something about adding shock that contained a percentage of copper.... I too, in the past would have this nagging green that would never disappear....Very Very slight hint, but it was green nonetheless.. I found it to be metals in the water (I have well water here)... now I know how to deal with that....
all that said::::
real simple: take 2 or 3 vitamin C tablets from the medicine drawer.... place the pill inside an 8- folded paper towel, the bottom of an old sock, an old rag etc... take a hammer and crush the pills up abit...now take that towel, rag or sock, and rub the side wall of the pool with it and see if you see a stain coming off.... If you do have metals in the water, it will be quite noticeable once you rub the pool wall as the stain will disappear before your eyes ... its actually pretty cool to see... If the metals are present in the water, dont sweat that until you get the cloud "thing" under control... Remember the color wheel : >>>> Blue wall+yellow stain=green appearance

[michael3]

Cool, now to get some vitamin c, would not surprise me at all if that's what I have. My liner is almost 10 yrs old and not in the best of shape. If I can get the clouds gone from my water, I may be able to live with green looking walls and bottom lol

[stma]

it wont take alot of "C" to find out... just ball it into a paper towel, and rub that "ball" on the liner... You'll know in an instant if its metals....

[michael3]

Well I`m happy to report ....... I am still clueless lol. Got some vitamin c, rubbed the pill up against the liner and nothing. I guess you can do that right? So, it doesnt appear to be metal, or will the vitamin c work on copper stain? Still dont think its algae at this point, Chlorine has been high enough, long enough to kill anything in that water lol.

[PoolDoc]

Vitamin C works on copper.

Unfortunately, some organic stains can be removed only very slowly with chlorine . . . and I have seen some that were never removed. I don't know of any other way to remove them.

[michael3]

With the age of my liner, if we can get the water clear, can probably see about 2' down now. I am ok with green colored wall and bottom lol. With my chlorine holding overnight, and getting no cc on that test, do you think I can go ahead and bring my chlorine level down to the cya guess chart? And with the pool being cloudy, do you think it would be safe to swim in, we're nearing the end of June and have not been in it once I have a 5 yr old that just doesn't understand why she can't swim

[PoolDoc]

Bringing your chlorine level down would probably be fine . . . but you can almost certainly swim now!

Skin is VERY chlorine resistant. Swimsuits, not so much. So, if the chlorine is high wear old swimsuits, or depending on who's home and how your fences are, just skip them altogether - unless you are worried about the NSA seeing something.

Odd fact: when new users register and include their address, I check it on Google Maps. It's a quick and easy way to see exclude hackers, spammers and so on. So . . . having seen literally 100's, maybe 1,000's of pools on Google satellite view, I have *never* seen a pool with someone in it. (And yes, you can tell. I can usually tell the shape of a pool, whether it's in-ground or above-ground, and whether it has a d-board or a slide..) Makes me wonder if Google has some software routine that auto-magically removes people from home pools and pool decks -- I know from having done pool service, that if you show up at home pools unexpectedly, and don't announce yourself loudly, you can sometimes see more than is good for customer relations. Google may have decided it was smart, on their part, to never display people that might be in pools, and might, or might not have suits on.