Newbie here... DOH

[B@rney]

Thanks for your replies.

I have now taken the cover off for a few hours.

The filter is a horible green colour after my cleaning last night

however im a bit confused about the chlorine levels..

the instructions and everything inthe box says do not even think about geting in the pool if its over 3ppm

and you suggest 15ppm??

Am i missing something?

Thanks again

[CarlD]

Good catch.

The answer is simple: Intex is wrong. Intex is basing its recommendation on old government warnings which were nothing more than a bad guess on the Fed's part.

At the same time they were saying you shouldn't swim in water that was higher than 3ppm (of chlorine), they were saying you shouldn't DRINK water higher than 4ppm. See what I mean?

You have a serious algae bloom and you need to kill the algae. Getting your chlorine level to 15ppm and keeping it there is the only thing that will kill it.

You do NOT want to swim in an algae-laden pool. Seriously. If there's algae, all the chlorine is being consumed fighting it. That means there's none left to fight bacteria, viruses, or the traces of fecal matter than EVERY person leaves in the pool. (I know this sounds gross and disgusting, but it's true--chlorine neutralizes that stuff and makes is safe and clean).

Algae itself is not dangerous to you (to the best of my knowledge) but if it's growing, ALL your chlorine is spent on it and the water is now ripe for contamination.

Once the algae is dead, the chlorine will sanitize everything else.

[B@rney]

mm ok.

well everything is looking better as the day goes on. Had to add more salt this morning, and ive chucked a load more ph minus in and finally got the water to what the box says is a reasonable level.

Generator is now running too and making the chlorine stuff so will see how it goes. Lots of dead looking brown stuff floating on the bottom that I will hoover up a bit later. plus water looks a whole lot cleaner already. not even a bit cloudy now.

So fingers crossed.

[B@rney]

Update.....Update....update...

Ok by the end of the day I was happy with how things were looking, the extra salt it had asked for had dissolved so I turned decided I would clean the filters, screens and check the plates in the chlorinator.

Ok note to self check plates much more regularly. They were completely covered in limescale!!!!!

So blast with hose, no effect, soak for cpl hours in vinegar solution, blast with hose.. lovely and clean.

Re connect all back up........ now too much salt!!!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Drained a foot of water from pool, and now in process of re-filling. so by lunch time today I should be able to turn everything back on and find out if I have watered down the salt level by enough. If not im afraid I might have to scream just a little bit.

On the plus side my PH is now right....