The pool is under attack...

[PatL34]

Shelly,

Have you checked that you don't have anything in the skimmer and pool pump baskets that should'nt be there.

Just a thoiught

Pat

[ShelleyAnn]

I only wish. I check and empty them daily. Nothing more than a few blades of grass. Even though my pressure hasn't increased on my filter, I'm going to backwash and add a cup of DE for good measure. I read here on the forum you don't grow algae in a properly maintained pool, and therefore don't need to brush the walls, but I think I'm going to do that also even though I don't feel anything on them. It's a difficult job from outside an above ground pool but I don't think I should get in the pool at 14ppm FC.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions...keep 'em coming!

[ShelleyAnn]

Brushed the walls, vaccumed, backwashed, dropped in the lady bug, added bleach 4 times yesterday to bring it up to 15 and again at 9pm...I now have the most beautiful pool with crystal clear water that SMELLS so much like chloramines no one wants to go in it.

I think I am going thru what Voldaddy went thru in his Excessive Bleach Consumption thread of a week or 2 ago http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=2289

I have a HUGE MOUND of empty bleach bottles by the back door and my husband is beginning to get that "I told you this was going to be a maintenance nightmare" look. The frustrating thing is I'm not sure what got me in trouble. Our neighborhood had a terrible hail/rain storm last Saturday night that we weren't here to see that destroyed everyone's gardens and flower pots. Can this type of thing get you in this much trouble?

Shelley

[ShelleyAnn]

I finally won. It took tons of bleach also. I was starting to think the way it was smelling was normal, and that I was crazy to think there was something wrong. Well, now on the other side of it, I know that a healthy pool does not smell like chloramines. I just can't believe how hard it was to fight something that wasn't green or cloudy! It would have probably been worse if I didn't respond to the smell. I think brushing and vacuuming was an important factor to finally clearing it up.


Shelley