I am so disheartened. We opened our IG 16 x 36 Monday afternoon. I
had nbever seen anything so green. Could not see bottom at all. We
poured the big container of liquid chlorine in, and 1 gal of algecide
(not enough I am sure) ran filter (cartridge) all night. Cleaned
catridges in am and lots of green came out. Yesterday afternoon I
vacummed blindly, still no seeing bottom. I use a sock on skimmer
basket when I vacumn so I can catch alot of the grime before it goes to
filter. I had to shut filter off every couple minutes to empty sock
which was filled with a blackish sandy grime (dead algea?) Anyway
filter has run non stop and still no change maybe even worse. It looks
like a swamp. The free chlorine is high, the alkalinity is near
perfect and the ph is just a tad off on the high side. I am tkaing a
sample of water to pool place this am hoping beyondhope they can tell me
what to do. Was our mistake not adding enough algecide to begin with?
The water over the white steps is like green food color, is this the
live algea? and when it dies its black/brown? I read the algecide
container after the fact (this am) and it says 4 gal for every 50K of
water. I know the pool store has my pool in its computer cause I ve had
water analized before so hopefully they will give me insight. What
would you do at this point. Do I add algecide then wait to vacumn again?
Thanks for your time Linda
OH Electricjet man…insight please
July 27th, 2005 · 3 Comments
Tags: chemicals
3 responses so far ↓
1 Joanne Kaley // Jul 31, 2005 at 6:39 am
Hi Ken
That sounds good. We need to get the extra filters. We were washing
them with the garden hose but as you say it does waste alot of water.
I’ll try that dry method. Now… I haven’t been back to the pool
place yet, but even though water is blue we still can’t see bottom. The
PH and Alklinity check normal and total chlorine registers high free
chlorine is very high. What makes water cloudy? Thanks again.
Linda
2 Joanne Kaley // Aug 1, 2005 at 2:07 am
Ken
The safety cover is so convevnient no worries about kids falling in
pool, plus it was over $900.
Nice thing is that we never have to add water in the spring lol. I
know everything is a trade off. What about using those leaf covers I se
in the pool magazines over it until the end of fall? Or just better to
put a reg winter cover over the safety cover?
Thanks Linda
3 Neva Marjory // Aug 7, 2005 at 9:06 am
A piece of mulch tore the inner diaphragm of my Barracuda G3
cleaner, which I haven’t been able to replace yet.
A funny story about the G3. When the G3 first came out the local
pool pros were used to working on the older Barracuda Alpha models
including the ill-fated Alpha 2 plus with the sinking hose system. I
had one lady bring her new G3 into the store after her pool guy tried
to replace the diaphram………….he destroyed it. They do not
disassemble in the same manner as the older models………in fact
they are easy to work on……….you just need to know how. Plus
they have only about 50% of the parts of the older models. I had
several people purchase them and said they worked better than the
newer KK model it replaced.
It is listed as a carcinogenic substance in many states!
Ken
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