Help!Cloudy AG after Borax/chlorine granules

[pam100257]

Hello. well it's almost a month later and I am pretty disgusted with the whole pool thing, summer is all most over and still no swimming.
I still have problem with cloudy water, there is white chalk-like sediment on the bottom every morning, vacuuming just stirs it up and the water is cloudy again. I have been vacuuming to waste 1-2 times a day, have spent a lot of money with no results. I have emptied pool 1/2 way down 2 times, plus all the water I lose vacuuming to waste and refilling on a daily basis, I used a "slime bag", bought and tried the Pool Buster (which just swirled the white stuff around), ordered the special silt bags for the pool buster and used those, still just swirled the white stuff around. I used flocculent 2 times, I have used trouser socks in the skimmer with cotton balls. I use bleach with a few Trichlor tablets. My chemistries are all OK (pH 7.2) except the hardness, which is a little high. I just cannot figure this out--- I had a pool last year with the same hard water and only had a few days where it was cloudy.
BTW I have a water filter in my home that filters all the heavy metals out of the water when it enters the house, so I cannot bypass that. I called the company and that filter cannot be bypassed but I turn my water softener off before I add water. My pool is crystal clear in the morning and I can see all the white stuff on the bottom, it is getting a lttle better but the end result is that as soon as I start to vacuum or get in it, all that stuff gets stirred up and it's cloudy until the next morning. I run the filter at least 6-8 hours a day.

Any suggestions? other than a stick of dynamite? LOL
Thanks so much

[Watermom]

It would be helpful if you could post a complete set of current water testing results. Also, list anything you have added to your pool while you have been trying to clear it. Then, somebody here can take a look and try and help.

NO DYNAMITE!!

[poolbuoy]

My pool too was crystal clear...tc is 10 alk is 130 and ph is 7.5.
I made a slide for the kids in the pool and used concrete blocks to hold the wooden part down...Not sure if the blocks leached into the water and made it cloudy. any ideas?

[dannyboy]

Use the water softener.
I feel your pain. I have had the same problem.
The water softener if filled using salt sodium chloride will not hurt your pool.
If you can drink it you should be able to swim in it.
The softener exchanges calcium, magnesium and some iron for sodium and
nothing else.
I recirculate my pool water thru a softener to avoid future problems
I have also plumbed my refill water directly from the house water softener.
My neighbors also must use softened water or suffer the calcium carbonate
snow.
Untill you get rid of some calcium your problem will not go away.

[salinda]

I also think the vacuums swirling the stuff around definitely happens for me in my spa, but I also notice that their filters get clogged with this stuff way before they get filled. If you use the PoolBuster, you have to clean the bag frequently when you are dealing with this type of precipitate.

[poolbuoy]

Pool all clear, just vacuumed a few time and shocked it. added more bleach up to 10ppm since my cya is 60.