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[Spensar]

Keep vacumming and cleaning the filter too, to get the junk out. Over the next day or so, you should see clearer water. Like Ivy said, filtering is becoming the challenge now.

[raptureready1953]

Hi Everyone

Well I learned how to open my pump tonight with DH help. I washed the filter out really well, and its up and running. Added more clorox, hope morning time will give me a nice clear pool.

Now, once it is clear, how do I keep it that way? Do I let the chlorine level drop back to 5 to 10? My cya is still between 30 and 50.

Thanks again so much for all the help I have recieved. I went and read the stickies, and a lot of other stuff too. Thanks for this site.

[Spensar]

Once it's clear, with that level of CYA, chlorine at 3 to 5 ppm will do the trick. The #1 thing to keep a clear pool is to not let the chlorine level down. Other things like PH and alk should be balance but if they go out of range it isn't a disaster like letting the chlorine go low for a few days.

[raptureready1953]

Thanks again. Went out this morn to check and its still so cloudy. At least not green. More of a grey blue?

Today I just stuck a strip in, results
total Hardness 250 ok
tot. chlorine 10 high
free chlorine 10 high
ph 8.4 very high
tot alkalinity 120 ok low
stablizer(color is between)50-100

[raptureready1953]

another question...could my pool be still cloudy from too much chlorine? Its not clear yet.

[aylad]

Your pool isn't going to be cloudy from too much chlorine, if you're using bleach. Your pool is cloudy because it's still full of dead algae that is suspended in the water. The chlorine does the killing, the filter does the removing. It may take several days for it to all filter out. That's why running your pump 24/7 and very frequent brushing are recommended when killing off an algae bloom.

Don't worry about your pH being high for now--with your chlorine that high, it sometimes gives false high pH readings. Wait until you're ready to let your chlorine start dropping and retest your pH before trying to treat it.

Janet

[BlueBlobTX]

Chemical folks, please correct me if I'm giving wrong advice here!

If you have an Intex pool, whose life expectancy isn't more than a few years, I would not worry at all about high PH or ALK. You might have to use a little more chlorine, but that's about it. Low PH is a problem, obviously, but high PH as far as I know only poses a risk of scaling, which shouldn't be an issue with a disposable pool.

Sounds like you are dealing with dead algae. If you search the forums, you'll find some posts on how to vacuum to waste with an Intex. I've never tried it... we can't afford to lose that much water in the drought we're in down here. But you're going to have to get the dead stuff out at some point. Run the filter and change the filter often. They don't clean real well and at under $10 a piece at Wally World, I just stock up on them. You should be seeing a bunch of brownish gunk on the filter by now. Time to replace, else it will end up back in the pool. Hopefully you're Intex came with the vac that runs off the skimmer and pump... it should be able to pick up the leftover dead algae. I don't have that and had to buy a Pool Buster to get it up, but once it's gone, it's gone.

After this, just follow the advice on this website and keep your chlorine levels up, using liquid bleach as directed and it should be smooth sailing.

Lori