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

    Great! I'd love to see the pics!
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    Not bad for an old free towel.


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    Loves!!!!!!! The water looks great!!!! Nice camera.
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    Thos is great! How did you put the towels in the skimmer without blocking your flow?
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    Default Re: My water is still cloudy and I don't know what to do about it

    It's not a full size towel, it's a smaller bath size.
    (It's actually one that my gym hands out, and it accidentally made its way home in my bag a few years ago.)
    It used to be white. Everything in that towel that's NOT white is crap that was in my water.
    I wash this towel about every 3 days when I do this.

    Anyway, you can see there is flow around the top of the basket.
    The water that goes through the towel flows at a slower velocity than the water that goes around the towel.
    I know this looks hard on the pump, but this is my 3rd year doing this. (I forgot my towel trick when I first made this post).
    My pump doesn't seem to care.



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

    It's my Galaxy S5 cell phone.
    You can dunk them.
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    Is there water in your skimmer?
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    Default Re: My water is still cloudy and I don't know what to do about it

    You mean in that photo? Yes.
    Pump happened to be off when I took the photo, so the water was still.
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    Default Re: My water is still cloudy and I don't know what to do about it

    Quote Originally Posted by Bosch232 View Post
    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.

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