My water is still cloudy and I don't know what to do about it

[Bosch232]

Sorry to take so long to reply.
My pool is now very clear! Yay!

And I'm pleased to report that I didn't spend a dime to do it, either.

I tried an old trick I used a couple of years ago to get rust-red out of the high-iron water we have: Old towels in the bottom of the skimmer basket. They seem to filter out even the smallest of particles. I changed them out morning and evening, and after about 5 days, super clear water.

Boom.

[Bosch232]

Oh, and yes: The 2 hp pump is overkill. But I got it free and no amount of abuse seems to kill it. If it ever dies, I'll get a 1 hp.

[Anonymous [GDPR] European in the UK]

Sorry to take so long to reply.
My pool is now very clear! Yay!

I tried an old trick I used a couple of years ago to get rust-red out of the high-iron water we have: Old towels in the bottom of the skimmer basket. They seem to filter out even the smallest of particles.

It goes to prove how pleasing fine filtration is over bog standard sand filtration. Partly due to the huge surface area for filtration that your towel has created compared to the small sand filter surface area and the better fine filtration at a slower rate. Cotton is a wonderful stuff as it also has a slightly negative charge so attracting the positive charged iron particles.
Thank you for posting that, interesting.