Please define "cloudy water"

[AnnaK]

If you are using Calcium Hypochlorite (HTH, etc) You will see the calcium which has precipitated out of the CalHypo.

I'm not using Cal-Hypo. I notice this 'dust' when brushing mostly if we haven't been in the pool for a day.

The bottom and sides of the pool feels clean. I mean, when I slide my feet and hands over it it's, like, squeaky clean, not slick or grainy or anything like that. I've concluded it's dead algae bodies which hadn't been circulated enough to be filtered out. Certainly the water has that crisp sparkle which tphaggerty defined.

[aylad]

I'm not using Cal-Hypo. I notice this 'dust' when brushing mostly if we haven't been in the pool for a day.

The bottom and sides of the pool feels clean. I mean, when I slide my feet and hands over it it's, like, squeaky clean, not slick or grainy or anything like that. I've concluded it's dead algae bodies which hadn't been circulated enough to be filtered out. Certainly the water has that crisp sparkle which tphaggerty defined.

If it's "squeaky clean", and your chlorine has been maintained at proper levels, then it's probably just dirt, pollen, etc that has blown into the pool, or dirt that has been tracked in by swimmers. Brush it up and your filter should take care of it.


Janet

[chemicalbalance]

Cloudy water is like the CYA test kit. You look in and you cant see the bottom.

The first thing to dissapear is the drain at the bottom of the deep end.

Then the whole deep end and you can only make out the liner in the shallow.

Then if it gets really bad, you start counting how many steps you can see.

On the path to recovery from "cloudy water" you get excited as new bottom features emerge.

You have pollen or chemical debris - you will know cloudy water when it hits - and you will read this website like never before.

[AnnaK]

You have pollen or chemical debris - you will know cloudy water when it hits - and you will read this website like never before.

That's not possible. I read this forum with my first cup of coffee in the morning and my last sip of Tequila at night But I betcha that if I do get cloudy water, I'll post here like never before.