How to clear up my cloudy pool?
Question:We recently had a pool installed. The pool was green but we added the amount of shock the pool people told us to add and started the filter for the first time. After the chemicals were normal we went swimming and it was cloudy. Today is the 3rd day after starting the pool and the chemicals are fine and the water is still cloudy. Is there metal in my pool from the shock? Please help me!
Answers:
Try some pool Clarifier and call the pool company. Ask them how to clear it up, using what chemicals.
get a pool boy :)
Reduce the amount of clorine for a couple of days and see if that will help.
Pool stores have a blue chemical that clears the water. I think it's called clear brite.
mostly the pool just needs to be vacuumed
you just have to add chemicals and wait it out.
Get a AlLGEE eater:)
go to pool town and buy some clarifier
Take a bath before you swim.
What the $%^$% were you doing in that pool!?!?!?
if you don't use much chlorine try using some more but if you do use a lot try using less =) it helped my spa and my pool =)
this happened to our pool too, i woudl shock more and add cholrine. go to where you got your pool, they can probably test a water smaple for you and tell you what to do, this is exactly what happened to us. it will get bettr, enjoy your pool though! :]
try a clarifier www.pool-care.net it explains all the things that can be causing the cloudiness, but I'd bet on the clarifier
Go to your local pool supply store and buy something like "Brite and Clear" (I can't remember the exact name off the top of my head). The stuff really works, although my experience is in a much smaller 'pool' -- a hot tub.
They will probably have another kind of chemical like "Brite and Clear" made for pools instead of hot-tubs.
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You might have screwed things up a little by not running the filter and adding the chems right away. You might want to consult a pool maintenance specialist, maybe even hire them for a couple months to get things where they should be and then take over the maintenance yourself. Its been a while but as memory serves, you need to add chlorine every day and acid on a weekly basis. Make sure your equipment is properly set up and diatamacious (sp?) earth is in your filter.
I wish I could help! I never could get the mix right, had a variety of colors including one we called Chernobyl Green. Finally gave up and literally gave the pool away.
Now we have a lovely deck, and a wildflower garden.
If all else fails you can take a sample of the water to your pool installer, it's likely they will test the water for you to tell you what expensive chemicals they would love to sell to you to fix the problem.
or you can go to a place that sells the expensive chemicals for less than the installer and read their recommendations.
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