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polaris:
i wish i could give more detail but it was probably 25 yrs ago and my dad dealt with it , but barring a medium we cant ask him.
he bought some product which was supposed to sort the problem, but it didnt ,so the company requested a sample of the pondwater to test, i dont remember if ultimately it was the ph, but i seem to remember lime being mentioned as the issue with the concrete, try going down the route of fish pond products to see if you can diagnose it that way.
tk_42_1:
Who is the someone you are talking about? Have you tried taking a sample to Pinch a Penny? They test your water for free and you don't have to buy anything from them (even though they might pressure you.)
I had bad algae problems about a month ago. 4 bags of shock and some special algae killer they had later and my pools been alot better. I was in my local PaP every other day until I got it straightened out.
There is definitely something happening this year with pools and algae. All my neighbors have either had problems are have had to use more chemicals then normal.
bleargh:
--- Quote from: psik0tik on October 11, 2007, 02:06:31 pm ---Someone told me using bleach instead of pool shock is better is this true. Or do I need to stick with pool shock. It's getting this cloudy green stuff in it recently and I'm having a hard time getting rid of it. The guy told me to add 1gallon of bleach per 1000 gallons of water...that's 25 gallons of bleach...seems kind of alot
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Personally, I'd stick with pool shock. Chlorine bleach may have a similar make up, but somehow the idea of adding 25 gallons of bleach to my pool seems a bit odd. It'll also be highly dependant on what the mixture for the bleach is; some brands have more chlorine in them than others.
FWIW, at the end of last season I had a horrible problem with algae in our 21' round pool (our second son was born in the middle of summer and I just never got out there often enough to keep it clean). When we had our water tested I found out that the pH was completely off, and it wouldn't matter how many chlorine pucks I threw in the pool they'd just burn off in a day or two and do nothing. Had the pH corrected, waited a few days, and then added a stabilizer to help keep the chlorine from burning off so quickly. Did wonders for the pool; instead of being a cloudy green where you couldn't see the bottom the water was crystal clear. Cleaning all the dead algae out was a pain in the arse, but the water has been super-clear ever since. Lesson learned? Keep the pH in check, otherwise the chlorine doesn't work well.
Two other useful things I've learned...
- Don't put chlorine/shock in at the same time as algaecide. The algaecide doesn't work anywhere near as good if you've got high chlorine in the water. Do one, let it sit a few days, then do the other.
- Buy one of those automatic pool cleaners, the kind that hook up to your skimmer. Saves hours of time. When we opened the pool in the spring I had tons of dead algae all over the bottom of the pool, and after spending an hour scrubbing the bottom of the pool I'd only managed to clean a few square feet worth (and had stirred up enough stuff to cloud the pool for the rest of the weekend). Bought one of the automatic cleaners the next week and let it loose in the pool. Overnight, it cleaned up everything off the bottom and about one-third the way up the sides of the pool. Cost me ~$300 CDN, but it saved me more than enough time to pay that back. Instead of vacuuming the pool out two or three times a week, we now just drop this in overnight once or twice. Saves me ~30mins each time and does a far better job then I could ever do myself.
abrannan:
Definitely take a sample of water to your local pool supplies store, they can test it for all sorts of things that can be interfering with the chlorine in the water. Plus, 25 gallons of bleach is going to set you back a lot more than a proper amount of shock & algaecide.
hulkster:
not to change the subjet but...
i have a pool, and we have to close it soon. is this hard to do? i bought a cover, and plugs for all the holes (heh...plugs for the holes) but the part im worried about is blowing out the line with a vacuum. i have a shop vac, but ive heard that closing the pool requires taking apart the filter or something. is that true? ill probably end up hiring someone to come out and close it for me the first time so i can learn, but wont if you guys can give me a good head start.
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