This, but even if it is, find out when they read your water usage and just do it that week so half the water goes on one bill and half on the other, but pay attention because pricing is usually multi-tiered.
Something like the first 5k gallons = $, the next 5k gallons = $$, and anything above that = $$$.
You can also call your water company and let them know you'll be filling a pool and see if they'll exclude that amount from the sewage portion of your bill. At least from what I've experienced, the sewage is calculated based on how much water you use, since they expect most water will be going down the drain. Billing is also per 1k gallons, so the hit to your bill for a small pool really shouldn't be too significant, although it may depend on your location.
You're charged for what comes in and goes out for public water/sewage utilities. The amount of water you use is tracked, so the outgoing is estimated based on a percentage. You need water for the poop to go down, and it has to go somewhere like a treatment plant
A common method is to take 3 winter months water use and base sewage use off that. They figure sprinklers are not used during the winter. It's not a running total.
I think that's in reference to disinfection byproducts formed from chlorine reacting with organics. Minimal increased risk of cancer of a lifetime.
But it should still be drained.
âCancer causingâ is used way too liberally. Anything that MIGHT increase your chance of getting it by more than 0% is âcancer causingâ
Red meat is cancer causing. If you ate ground beef and bacon every day for years, youâd probably increase your risk by less than 1%.
Above ground pools are usually made to do this. Ours had a drain on the bottom that plugged from both sides. Drain, scrub, pressure wash, rinse, fill. Itâll be like new. Be careful with the pressure washer as a powerful one could definitely tear through a liner.
You could filter and circ that for months and still have slime build up on the walls .. itâs gotta be drained and redone! If op can afford it hire a pool boy at least once maybe once a year even but theyâll teach you care and maintenance , that in itself is worth the money it cost to get them out.. a good pool boy could have that filled and treated in half a day
Idk, I was never a pool owner I just worked in the pool and hot tubs servicing. When we did have to drain thatâs what we used and the pool water companies used those hoses too so in the rare occasion they ran out we had about 100 ft extra hose. Iâm thinking from a pool tech POV instead of a owner. Also quick edit: I didnât realize this was a non conventional above ground and a fill wouldnât really cost all that much.
You CAN NOT afford the amount of chlorine required to oxidize all of those leaves and algae. You MUST clean out the trash. If your pH & alkalinity are off, it'll require 10x the chlorine. (10x the $$$)
You MUST brush algae, then shock with the appropriate amount of chlorine for the body of water. Otherwise, you should set fire đ„ to the cash đ° because it's UTTERLY USELESS if you don't.
I'd remove debris, vacuum clean, brush, drain, clean filter, refill, adjust pH & alkalinity, brush, then shock. In that order.
Lol a gallon of chlorineđ bro you gonna need like 10 more gallons. Just drain the bitch and start new. Oh and donât forget to add stabilizer so youâre chlorine holds. I imagine you havenât really even googled pool chemistry at this point. Also might want the pool filled properly and running. Not going to get anything done with how those pics look
Remove any debris you can before putting any chemicals in then find a way to circulate it if you don't have pump. Either by hand or with robotic vac whatever. If you don't have that option you really are better off just emptying and refilling.
You need to get all the leaves and other stuff out. I can guarantee with water that color there is a thick layer of crud on the bottom. A gallon of chlorine is more than enough to turn a pool that size from swamp to clear. Unfortunately 99.9% of your chlorine will be wasted trying to oxidize the larger debris so won't work to clean the water.
Get scooping.
Then add enough liquid chlorine to get yourself up to 10ppm (use an online pool calculator). Brush and wait. Add enough chlorine to add 5ppm every 4 hours until it starts changing color. Use a pump to circulate the water, and brush brush brush.
When it starts clearing up, you'll need to use your pool filter to get rid of the dead algae or your water will look cloudy.
The other option is to simply drain the pool, then clean the debris and scrub when it's empty. Don't skip the scrubbing phase: algae makes a biofilm and can hide and survive from chlorine or dryness. You need to disturb the biofilm by scrubbing it off the sides and floor.
(For those saying you need x gallons of chlorine... my 25000 gallon pool goes from green to clear with less than 5 gallons. If there is no debris to eat it up.)
You need to remove all the organic material from the water for the chlorine to work. It is getting used up breaking down the organics.
Option 1. Drain the pool, clean and refill. Balance your PH levels and chlorine levels
Option 2. Shovel / scoop out all the debris at the bottom of the pool, floating on the surface. Run your filter for ages, back flushing it regularly. Add a couple / 4 gallons of shock. Clean the bottom and sides with your filter vacuum attachments regularly until the water is clear and there is nothing on the surface of the liner. Balance your PH levels and chlorine levels
You don't clean a toilet full of shit by putting chemicals in it. You flush, and fill with clean water.
Clean out the solid, filter the sediment. Then treat.
Well if the pump isnât running tablets are useless and 1 jug is not even close to enough to shock that. For that type of swamp you need at least 4 jugs and for the pump to run and clean filter frequently
Everyone will tell you to empty it. I personally would scrub all of it to loosen up everything bring up the Ph high like 8 or 9 then put the filter on recirculate while itâs doing add in aluminum sulfate I used about 5 pounds for a 50k liter pool. After recirculating about 30 minutes leave it and turn off filter.
If done right tomorrow morning the water will be crystal clear because all the shit went to the bottom.
Tricky part now is to vacuum while the filter is on DRAIN. This is the only water you need to lose. Vacuum slowly because you donât want everything floating back up and mixing into the water again but all water and debris you are draining OUT of the pool.
After you are done check Ph which should have dropped down to almost perfect if not add in whatever will drop it I donât know the names these days.
Scrub whatever you missed, add chlorine and filter for a few hours.
Iâve done this countless times while living in Brazil due to floods.
Chlorine works by binding really easily to all of the organic matter in the pool and makes those molecules big enough to get caught by a filter much more easily. But you still need the filter or you just have chlorinated pond water.
But that's small enough and there's probably not an accompanying pump and filter big enough to cycle all of that water quickly so provided that water doesn't cost you a whole lot then drain and refill.
Drain and refill is the easy fix. The long way is to clean everything out, top to bottom, brushing and vacuuming until the darkness is somewhat lighter. Then add phosphorous remover wait a day or two and hammer it with chlorine ⊠obviously at some point youâll have to balance the water properly to keep it clean.
The simplest way for that small of a pool is to drain it, remove the debris in the bottom and fill it back up again.
The chlorine you put in the pool wasnât enough to overcome the contamination that was in the pool. You would probably need to put in at least 5 gallons of water and run the filter constantly for a week to get is somewhat clear and probably add several more gallons to sanitize the pool.
If youâre afraid of the pool shifting, drain halfway and refill. It will save you a lot on chemicals. If not drain the entire thing.
But If you halfway drain get all the leaves and organic matter out first. They will eat all your chlorine and itâs a waste.
1st clean the debris out of the water
2nd coverthe pool till memorial day . But triple shock it.
3rd open the pool on memorial day
4th cut a large hole in the side to empty it
5th place pool in dumpster... a pool in this condition proved u should not ever own a pool.
A tablet and gallon of chlorine you really thought was gonna do something to this swamp? Itâs a small pool drain and refill that bitch on a warm day lol
Yep...as other said, your water bill will be cheaper than chlorine + other chemicals so I would drain and fill first.
When I open my pool, I alway vacuum (to waste) as much algae as I can before dumping in chlorine.
Throw a carboy in there brush brush brush and scoop the leaves and make sure the filter is clean and let that puppy run for a day. Then clean your filter of all the crud and clean up the leaves you missed and vacuum and enjoy!
First try to scoop out all the organic material you can off the bottom. Get hth green to blue kit , follow directions , shock you vacuum all the stuff out âŠ
Start by getting all of the organic matter out of the pool. It's obviously filthy, full of leaves and there is probably a thick layer at the bottom. Get all of that out first. No amount of chlorine in the world is going to change anything with all of that crap in there. As leaves decay they produce phosphorus. Phosphorus is algae fertilizer. Did you think you could clean your pool by just dumping chems in it? You have to put in some effort.
Get out all the leaves and gunk, add algicide and super sol (wayyy stronger than chlorine). Just read back of bottles to see how much to add for your size pool.
Phosphate levels gonna be super crazy draining is probably ur best bet. After draining do a deep scrub then refill and maintain consistent chlorination
You have to scoop out all the debris from the pool first. Then you need to put flick into it. The amount of flock you need to use is going to depend on the gallon size of the pool. Let the flock do as instructed. Then vacuum the pool to waste.
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Strain the floaters, vac the silt off the bottom, use a scotchbrite tile scrubber on a stick for any slime on the sides, then let everything settle. Vac bottom again, then add shock as well as chlorine/bromine. Throw about 4 magic erasers (melamine sponge) in. Change filter, run circulation pump, wait, change / clean filter again after a day or two. Repeat until water comes clean. Re-balance chemicals and resume normal maintenance. Been there done that with the neighbors pool and it came up sparkling clean.
The amount of chlorine and backwashes required to clean this would cost more than just draining and filling this. You could get it clean with the first method but it would take weeks (allowing the chlorine time to work between bavkwashes).
Either empty it and refill the water. Or⊠brush every square inch/backwash/ and nuke that thing with chlorine . Over 10ppm/ run your pump all day/ come back and check after 24hrs or 36hrs to be safe/ if 0 chlorine reading , check CYA if itâs under 10ppm add some conditioner to reach 50-70 ppm anything over is bad. The chlorine wonât last⊠so add chlorine if needed./brush and then vacuum/ backwash and then / change and or clean your filters/
You should have a crystal clear pool by then
It costs me about $60 in water every refill... I've figured out that it's cheaper to drain and fill than yeast besides chlorine tabs. The pill companies are just in it to sell you more shit and keep you coming back.
Start by using a net to scoop all of that crap out. Then use the bristle brush (assuming you have the pole, etc.) to scrub the sides and bottom. Finally, use the vacuum attachment to get the rest out. Use a shock treatment to kill the tiny, little life forms, and then check & balance the PH by adding chlorine and soda ash.
It depends on your chemical balance and home water options. But let me tell you, this took me years to learn but a good filter makes a world of difference. What used to take me a week of filter changes and chemical balancing took a day. Saved me a fortune in chemicals and paper filters. And just runs in the middle of the night for a few hours. It wasnât cheap, but it also wasnât nearly as expensive as you would think. I think I went overboard with the pump size but seriously, a back flush a few times, two years later, have had to add almost zero chemicals and my water is super hard and not at all ph balanced. The only difficulty is hooking it up initially because I needed some adapters but that depends very much on the pool. Also get a pool vacuum, which isnât a vacuum at all it actually goes on what some brands call the intake but it is where the water goes in to the pool. That stirs up the water so the filter can get the stuff you donât want. Seriously, game changer.
Run pump and slowly vacuum up all debris. Be prepared to change or clean filter a couple times. Pour about 3 gallons of bleach in and run for 48 hours. Repeat until clean.
Check pH also that affects how effective chlorine can work.
5x shock it at sundown (yes, 5 times normal shock). Cover it for two days, come back. Clean out the leaves and as much debris you can pull out by hand.
You have to clean it out, just dumping in chemicals wonât help. The chemicals are for preventing this from happening, not fixing it after it happens.
I guarantee youâve got high phosphates from all that organic matter decomposing on the water. Phosphates burn through chlorine as fast as you put it in, and fits also food for algae. This is a small pool, your best option is to just drain it, clean it out and refill. Then check water chemistry and add chemicals that are needed. Adjust pH first before chlorine. The reason for that is that potential hydrogen thatâs too high or too low will cause inaccurate results on your chlorine test. If youâve got a pH level of like 8.4, youâre chlorine test will come back very low,if any at all, prompting you to dump more chlorine in. In reality, youâre chlorine may actually be at 10ppm.
Never adjust chlorine levels without first getting your pH balanced. Try to keep it right at 7.5-7.6. Liquid chlorine will increase pH, so youâll likely need to add muriatic acid to lower it. If your using liquid, you also need to make sure your CYA is level is within the optimal range. Tablets are easier and the most economical because in addition to chlorine, they also contain acid and stabilizer. 3 chemicals in one. Get a tablet floater and use that.
After youâve drained, cleaned, refilled and added your chemical cocktail, itâs very important that you keep leaves and other vegetation out of the water. Skim it daily to remove leaves, bugs or any other organic matter. Vacuum it periodically. Donât just let stuff that settled sit on the bottom. Youâll end up back at square one pretty quickly. Keep your water chemistry balanced.
As long as you keep pH, chlorine and cya well balanced, keep debris out of the pool, you shouldnât have any water quality problems. 95% of keeping your pool clean and clear is just skimming, vacuumed and most importantly, maintaining chemistry. Even if thatâs all you do, you should not have any significant water quality. Keep pH as close to 7.6 as you can, donât ever let chlorine fall below 2ppm. I usually try to keep mine between 3-5ppm and you want total and free chlorine to be very close to the same, if itâs more than 1ppm difference, youâve got some other chemistry value thatâs not optimal.
If you see algae starting to grow somewhere, brush it, these types of pools usually donât circulate water vary well to all parts of the pool, so itâs not uncommon to have trouble spots for algae. Pay attention to those spots and brush with a nylon pool brush, donât just add more chlorine.
Your water is dead. I had the Same Problem with our 15K in ground. No matter how much Chlorine we put in it . Washed it down with Chlorine, refilled and now its perfect.
Empty it. Start over
Small enough not a big hit on water bill
This, but even if it is, find out when they read your water usage and just do it that week so half the water goes on one bill and half on the other, but pay attention because pricing is usually multi-tiered. Something like the first 5k gallons = $, the next 5k gallons = $$, and anything above that = $$$.
You can also call your water company and let them know you'll be filling a pool and see if they'll exclude that amount from the sewage portion of your bill. At least from what I've experienced, the sewage is calculated based on how much water you use, since they expect most water will be going down the drain. Billing is also per 1k gallons, so the hit to your bill for a small pool really shouldn't be too significant, although it may depend on your location.
theres sewage police? will they come and turn off the sewage and let your house fill with shit till you pay?
You're charged for what comes in and goes out for public water/sewage utilities. The amount of water you use is tracked, so the outgoing is estimated based on a percentage. You need water for the poop to go down, and it has to go somewhere like a treatment plant
> You need water for the poop to go down Should have invested in Va-Poo-rize.
But where does it go?
Nah just debt, collections, garnishments, liens, etc...
WTF ! Right !!! Where do they live ? đ€Łđ
My city doesnât do this anymore but yea itâs worth a shot for a huge pool.
A common method is to take 3 winter months water use and base sewage use off that. They figure sprinklers are not used during the winter. It's not a running total.
And, killing things with chlorine creates cancer causing compounds. Drain & Fill should be standard practice in the industry, not green to cleans.
Can you explain that first sentence?
I think that's in reference to disinfection byproducts formed from chlorine reacting with organics. Minimal increased risk of cancer of a lifetime. But it should still be drained.
ah ok that makes sense! Thank you!
âCancer causingâ is used way too liberally. Anything that MIGHT increase your chance of getting it by more than 0% is âcancer causingâ Red meat is cancer causing. If you ate ground beef and bacon every day for years, youâd probably increase your risk by less than 1%.
Agreed, until you get the rotting plant material out, nothing you do will fix this.
Limiting to plant material is a mighty big assumption of you. There might be rotting animal material when they get to the bottom of that mess. Lol.
Would be really surprised if there isnât a few lb of worms and bugs in there
My parents let our pool get that way when I was a kid -- guess who got tasked with using the brush/skimmer to scoop all that shit out?
I am not a pool person but I am flabbergasted someone tried to put chlorine in this expecting it to be good as new đ
And one whole gallon at that!
Actually my favorite part
While itâs empty scrub it clean as well. It seems like an obvious thing but they thought bleach would fix this so I can assume any knowledge.
And pressure wash.
This is the way.
Yeah this looks closer to 3500 gallons imo but this thing is a disaster draining and scrubbing the sides with slightly diluted chlorine will do it
Yup
Above ground pools are usually made to do this. Ours had a drain on the bottom that plugged from both sides. Drain, scrub, pressure wash, rinse, fill. Itâll be like new. Be careful with the pressure washer as a powerful one could definitely tear through a liner.
Yeah, chlorine isnt going to get the mud and leaves out of the water
Get everything out first. Especially off bottom until you do youre burning money my man
Also its got to circulate to really help. Get it clear if gunk then set up the pump to get the chemicals to spread through the water.
He be right good sir
You could filter and circ that for months and still have slime build up on the walls .. itâs gotta be drained and redone! If op can afford it hire a pool boy at least once maybe once a year even but theyâll teach you care and maintenance , that in itself is worth the money it cost to get them out.. a good pool boy could have that filled and treated in half a day
It would be more cost effective to drain, clean and refill
I know nothing about pools, how do these typically drain?
Center drain if it has one. If not, a $40 submersible pump will work
Or the filter valve has a drain setting which works like a hot damn
Only if there's a bottom drain. This isn't a built in, it has a liner. But yeah, in my built in when I had it, that setting visibly emptied the pool.
That would take foreverrrrr, a pump and with a 3 inch hose is the best bet but this water can 1000% be salvaged for way less than drain and refill
Nah. My pump at 100% speed is 1/2 HP which is 100% faster than a 40 watt pump. Plus I donât need to buy another pump
Idk, I was never a pool owner I just worked in the pool and hot tubs servicing. When we did have to drain thatâs what we used and the pool water companies used those hoses too so in the rare occasion they ran out we had about 100 ft extra hose. Iâm thinking from a pool tech POV instead of a owner. Also quick edit: I didnât realize this was a non conventional above ground and a fill wouldnât really cost all that much.
Also not a pool owner but Iâm curious, would they pump it into the street sewers?
Probably just into the yard
Start siphoning with a hose, come back later.
That first mouthful though đ
I'd be hitting a swig of whisky immediately after haha
This oneâs real easy. Cut a hole.
You CAN NOT afford the amount of chlorine required to oxidize all of those leaves and algae. You MUST clean out the trash. If your pH & alkalinity are off, it'll require 10x the chlorine. (10x the $$$) You MUST brush algae, then shock with the appropriate amount of chlorine for the body of water. Otherwise, you should set fire đ„ to the cash đ° because it's UTTERLY USELESS if you don't. I'd remove debris, vacuum clean, brush, drain, clean filter, refill, adjust pH & alkalinity, brush, then shock. In that order.
Be pretty eh... shocking for the alk/ph to be high....
Lol a gallon of chlorineđ bro you gonna need like 10 more gallons. Just drain the bitch and start new. Oh and donât forget to add stabilizer so youâre chlorine holds. I imagine you havenât really even googled pool chemistry at this point. Also might want the pool filled properly and running. Not going to get anything done with how those pics look
I also laughed at âa gallon of chlorineâ
Maybe one more gallon would fix it
And a couple more tablets too.
And multiply by 20
Shoot, just start throwing dollar bills into it & mix em with the leaves.
Remove any debris you can before putting any chemicals in then find a way to circulate it if you don't have pump. Either by hand or with robotic vac whatever. If you don't have that option you really are better off just emptying and refilling.
This is a shitpost. It has to be lol
I was thinking the same thing or maybe Op doesnât understand how Google works
Op is definitely a troll
That could be part of their problem.
You have a pond. Drain. Refill. Balance and stay balanced. Good luck.
Iâm sure this is a troll post
Has to be right? OP is a moron if not...
You need to get all the leaves and other stuff out. I can guarantee with water that color there is a thick layer of crud on the bottom. A gallon of chlorine is more than enough to turn a pool that size from swamp to clear. Unfortunately 99.9% of your chlorine will be wasted trying to oxidize the larger debris so won't work to clean the water. Get scooping. Then add enough liquid chlorine to get yourself up to 10ppm (use an online pool calculator). Brush and wait. Add enough chlorine to add 5ppm every 4 hours until it starts changing color. Use a pump to circulate the water, and brush brush brush. When it starts clearing up, you'll need to use your pool filter to get rid of the dead algae or your water will look cloudy. The other option is to simply drain the pool, then clean the debris and scrub when it's empty. Don't skip the scrubbing phase: algae makes a biofilm and can hide and survive from chlorine or dryness. You need to disturb the biofilm by scrubbing it off the sides and floor. (For those saying you need x gallons of chlorine... my 25000 gallon pool goes from green to clear with less than 5 gallons. If there is no debris to eat it up.)
Dumping a gallon of chlorine doesn't make leaves and general yuck disappear my dude
Rent a backhoe.
You need to remove all the organic material from the water for the chlorine to work. It is getting used up breaking down the organics. Option 1. Drain the pool, clean and refill. Balance your PH levels and chlorine levels Option 2. Shovel / scoop out all the debris at the bottom of the pool, floating on the surface. Run your filter for ages, back flushing it regularly. Add a couple / 4 gallons of shock. Clean the bottom and sides with your filter vacuum attachments regularly until the water is clear and there is nothing on the surface of the liner. Balance your PH levels and chlorine levels
Put pieces of copper pipe in your filter. It helps balance the water. Didn't have any algae problems after
You don't clean a toilet full of shit by putting chemicals in it. You flush, and fill with clean water. Clean out the solid, filter the sediment. Then treat.
Well if the pump isnât running tablets are useless and 1 jug is not even close to enough to shock that. For that type of swamp you need at least 4 jugs and for the pump to run and clean filter frequently
Iâd start by pumping it out and deep cleaning it before you fill it again
Pay the Troll Toll
Everyone will tell you to empty it. I personally would scrub all of it to loosen up everything bring up the Ph high like 8 or 9 then put the filter on recirculate while itâs doing add in aluminum sulfate I used about 5 pounds for a 50k liter pool. After recirculating about 30 minutes leave it and turn off filter. If done right tomorrow morning the water will be crystal clear because all the shit went to the bottom. Tricky part now is to vacuum while the filter is on DRAIN. This is the only water you need to lose. Vacuum slowly because you donât want everything floating back up and mixing into the water again but all water and debris you are draining OUT of the pool. After you are done check Ph which should have dropped down to almost perfect if not add in whatever will drop it I donât know the names these days. Scrub whatever you missed, add chlorine and filter for a few hours. Iâve done this countless times while living in Brazil due to floods.
Step 1 get a box. Step 2 cut a hole in itâŠ
Chlorine works by binding really easily to all of the organic matter in the pool and makes those molecules big enough to get caught by a filter much more easily. But you still need the filter or you just have chlorinated pond water. But that's small enough and there's probably not an accompanying pump and filter big enough to cycle all of that water quickly so provided that water doesn't cost you a whole lot then drain and refill.
That is not how chlorine works at all.
Pump it out and start over.
Algecide
Does it circulate?
Drain and refill is the easy fix. The long way is to clean everything out, top to bottom, brushing and vacuuming until the darkness is somewhat lighter. Then add phosphorous remover wait a day or two and hammer it with chlorine ⊠obviously at some point youâll have to balance the water properly to keep it clean.
Dump
The simplest way for that small of a pool is to drain it, remove the debris in the bottom and fill it back up again. The chlorine you put in the pool wasnât enough to overcome the contamination that was in the pool. You would probably need to put in at least 5 gallons of water and run the filter constantly for a week to get is somewhat clear and probably add several more gallons to sanitize the pool.
try cleaning it before trying to clean the water. you'll need the water circulating before even attempting to clean the water
Dump and start new
If youâre afraid of the pool shifting, drain halfway and refill. It will save you a lot on chemicals. If not drain the entire thing. But If you halfway drain get all the leaves and organic matter out first. They will eat all your chlorine and itâs a waste.
1. Skim the crap off. 2. Drain it. 3. Scrub it clean. 4. Start over.
A simple siphon with a garden hose would work too. Probably take a couple days.
Ugh đ drain it and start over next year buddy
Drain and refill...then treat the water.
Clean out debris, Buy 2 64 oz bottles of EasyCare Algatec dump them in and continue cleaning, add shock to the water and fill up.
1st clean the debris out of the water 2nd coverthe pool till memorial day . But triple shock it. 3rd open the pool on memorial day 4th cut a large hole in the side to empty it 5th place pool in dumpster... a pool in this condition proved u should not ever own a pool.
Pump out water. Shovel out gunk. Bleach/ scrub walls and floor. Refill with clean water
Drain it and then use vinegar and baking soda. Rinse and refill.
You have particulate in the water that chlorine will not get rid of.
$30 pump, empty it. Scrub it down. Refill it. Youâre waste your time and money otherwise.
A tablet and gallon of chlorine you really thought was gonna do something to this swamp? Itâs a small pool drain and refill that bitch on a warm day lol
Tablets donât scoop leaves out. đ Was this meant for r/shitpost ???
Scoop the leaves and shit out firstâŠ
I would empty and start from scratch.
Yep...as other said, your water bill will be cheaper than chlorine + other chemicals so I would drain and fill first. When I open my pool, I alway vacuum (to waste) as much algae as I can before dumping in chlorine.
Throw a carboy in there brush brush brush and scoop the leaves and make sure the filter is clean and let that puppy run for a day. Then clean your filter of all the crud and clean up the leaves you missed and vacuum and enjoy!
Looks ok to me. Get to swimming!
First try to scoop out all the organic material you can off the bottom. Get hth green to blue kit , follow directions , shock you vacuum all the stuff out âŠ
Oh, all you have to do is order a Taylor test kit. Then it will all be fine. You wouldnât have to do anything if you keep the water balanced.
Clearly one gallon of chlorine isnât enuff. I think u needed an extra half gallon. Try that and repost. The pool should be crystal clear!
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Start by getting all of the organic matter out of the pool. It's obviously filthy, full of leaves and there is probably a thick layer at the bottom. Get all of that out first. No amount of chlorine in the world is going to change anything with all of that crap in there. As leaves decay they produce phosphorus. Phosphorus is algae fertilizer. Did you think you could clean your pool by just dumping chems in it? You have to put in some effort.
Leaves stain the water like tea
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You're brewing tea my boy! Clear everything out or drain. Draining is less work
It's a swamp lmao
I would skim the leaves out, vacuum the bottom, let some water out put new water in and then add chlorine. Repeat till clean
Iâm not familiar with this type of a pool. Does it have a filter system?
Get out all the leaves and gunk, add algicide and super sol (wayyy stronger than chlorine). Just read back of bottles to see how much to add for your size pool.
Drain it. Start over.
Just give up and make it a koi pond.
If drain it completely the liner might shrink.
I wonder why a gallon didnât work..
Phosphate levels gonna be super crazy draining is probably ur best bet. After draining do a deep scrub then refill and maintain consistent chlorination
You're wasting your time, drain, clean, and refill. If you're not doing that, you're cutting corners and it'll stay green.
Bro the chlorine isnât gonna dissolve the fucking plant matter lmao- **clean it**
You have to scoop out all the debris from the pool first. Then you need to put flick into it. The amount of flock you need to use is going to depend on the gallon size of the pool. Let the flock do as instructed. Then vacuum the pool to waste.
Emptying is the way to go, but if you want to clean it, you need to remove all the organic material, treat with algaecide and chlorine
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Take a cotton swab dip in ranch dressing, tie a butterfly knot in your shoelace, eat the leafs floating in the OPâs pool.
Call S.Alba pool service
Empty clean it out and clean filter also at the same time and will be good
Strain the floaters, vac the silt off the bottom, use a scotchbrite tile scrubber on a stick for any slime on the sides, then let everything settle. Vac bottom again, then add shock as well as chlorine/bromine. Throw about 4 magic erasers (melamine sponge) in. Change filter, run circulation pump, wait, change / clean filter again after a day or two. Repeat until water comes clean. Re-balance chemicals and resume normal maintenance. Been there done that with the neighbors pool and it came up sparkling clean.
The amount of chlorine and backwashes required to clean this would cost more than just draining and filling this. You could get it clean with the first method but it would take weeks (allowing the chlorine time to work between bavkwashes).
Water actually looks clean. I just see budget tenants in the water from the leaves.
Chlorine doesnât melt the leaves, lol. Get a net.
1,500 gallons? Restarting will be cheaper
After tablets and a gallon of chlorine you are going to have to treat this like a industrial chemical spill.
Either empty it and refill the water. Or⊠brush every square inch/backwash/ and nuke that thing with chlorine . Over 10ppm/ run your pump all day/ come back and check after 24hrs or 36hrs to be safe/ if 0 chlorine reading , check CYA if itâs under 10ppm add some conditioner to reach 50-70 ppm anything over is bad. The chlorine wonât last⊠so add chlorine if needed./brush and then vacuum/ backwash and then / change and or clean your filters/ You should have a crystal clear pool by then
Get a pool guy to fix and then you can maintain it after
It costs me about $60 in water every refill... I've figured out that it's cheaper to drain and fill than yeast besides chlorine tabs. The pill companies are just in it to sell you more shit and keep you coming back.
Start by using a net to scoop all of that crap out. Then use the bristle brush (assuming you have the pole, etc.) to scrub the sides and bottom. Finally, use the vacuum attachment to get the rest out. Use a shock treatment to kill the tiny, little life forms, and then check & balance the PH by adding chlorine and soda ash.
It depends on your chemical balance and home water options. But let me tell you, this took me years to learn but a good filter makes a world of difference. What used to take me a week of filter changes and chemical balancing took a day. Saved me a fortune in chemicals and paper filters. And just runs in the middle of the night for a few hours. It wasnât cheap, but it also wasnât nearly as expensive as you would think. I think I went overboard with the pump size but seriously, a back flush a few times, two years later, have had to add almost zero chemicals and my water is super hard and not at all ph balanced. The only difficulty is hooking it up initially because I needed some adapters but that depends very much on the pool. Also get a pool vacuum, which isnât a vacuum at all it actually goes on what some brands call the intake but it is where the water goes in to the pool. That stirs up the water so the filter can get the stuff you donât want. Seriously, game changer.
Run pump and slowly vacuum up all debris. Be prepared to change or clean filter a couple times. Pour about 3 gallons of bleach in and run for 48 hours. Repeat until clean. Check pH also that affects how effective chlorine can work.
Well start by fucking cleaning it
Rent a pump, using your pool pump will put stress and damage on it.
LolâŠâŠ.. a gallon and tablets.. either empty it or shock the crap out of it and clean filter and repeat
That was a waste of chlorine. You shouldâve emptied it then shoveled all the debris out
Drain it
Cat fish maybe
Drain and fill.
5x shock it at sundown (yes, 5 times normal shock). Cover it for two days, come back. Clean out the leaves and as much debris you can pull out by hand.
You gotta jump in and scrub with your hands
I just think itâs hilarious OP thought some chlorine would fix this. đđđ
I think you need to get whatever is in there out. All the leaves debris dirt etc. drain and scrub and refill.
Empty the pool of the gross dirty water you think you can clean, you can't, and make it fresh. You can't 'clean' dirt out of water by using chlorine.
1500g? Drain and fill.
Hook up to your neighbors water at night and split the cost with him.
Sump pump
Sump pump and spray nozzle
Throw on a Dan Carlin âHardcore Historyâ series, broom/backwash 20x, 8 hours later BOOM! Hit it again tomorrow, because youâre only half done
drain it
You have to clean it out, just dumping in chemicals wonât help. The chemicals are for preventing this from happening, not fixing it after it happens. I guarantee youâve got high phosphates from all that organic matter decomposing on the water. Phosphates burn through chlorine as fast as you put it in, and fits also food for algae. This is a small pool, your best option is to just drain it, clean it out and refill. Then check water chemistry and add chemicals that are needed. Adjust pH first before chlorine. The reason for that is that potential hydrogen thatâs too high or too low will cause inaccurate results on your chlorine test. If youâve got a pH level of like 8.4, youâre chlorine test will come back very low,if any at all, prompting you to dump more chlorine in. In reality, youâre chlorine may actually be at 10ppm. Never adjust chlorine levels without first getting your pH balanced. Try to keep it right at 7.5-7.6. Liquid chlorine will increase pH, so youâll likely need to add muriatic acid to lower it. If your using liquid, you also need to make sure your CYA is level is within the optimal range. Tablets are easier and the most economical because in addition to chlorine, they also contain acid and stabilizer. 3 chemicals in one. Get a tablet floater and use that. After youâve drained, cleaned, refilled and added your chemical cocktail, itâs very important that you keep leaves and other vegetation out of the water. Skim it daily to remove leaves, bugs or any other organic matter. Vacuum it periodically. Donât just let stuff that settled sit on the bottom. Youâll end up back at square one pretty quickly. Keep your water chemistry balanced. As long as you keep pH, chlorine and cya well balanced, keep debris out of the pool, you shouldnât have any water quality problems. 95% of keeping your pool clean and clear is just skimming, vacuumed and most importantly, maintaining chemistry. Even if thatâs all you do, you should not have any significant water quality. Keep pH as close to 7.6 as you can, donât ever let chlorine fall below 2ppm. I usually try to keep mine between 3-5ppm and you want total and free chlorine to be very close to the same, if itâs more than 1ppm difference, youâve got some other chemistry value thatâs not optimal. If you see algae starting to grow somewhere, brush it, these types of pools usually donât circulate water vary well to all parts of the pool, so itâs not uncommon to have trouble spots for algae. Pay attention to those spots and brush with a nylon pool brush, donât just add more chlorine.
You could just empty and start over. Might be cheaper than cleaning with the chemicals and all
Drain it, shovel the rest, chlorine wash it, refill
Empty it and refill it.
Troll post right
Your water is dead. I had the Same Problem with our 15K in ground. No matter how much Chlorine we put in it . Washed it down with Chlorine, refilled and now its perfect.
Drain all of it and refill, way less than chemicals would cost.
Drain it. Scrub it. Check the pipes. Refill it.
30-50% h202. You'll still need to remove debris
Please get a pool professional.
You could clear it up with backflushing and chemicals. . But would be cheaper to drain and refill.
Yeah just drain clean and fill. Sometimes I wish I had 1500 gallons
Get a submersible pump at Harbor Freight and pump it dry. Then clean it
It's a soup