clean pool
By shymurl
@shymurl (2765)
United States
June 2, 2008 11:48am CST
ok I need help keeping my pool clean. this is the first year of me having this pool and at first its stayed pretty clean. I have added shock, some clarifier and some sanitizer tablets. but it is still green. Can anyone help??? thank you.
6 responses
@kellyclarkson244 (223)
• Singapore
2 Jun 08
haha. green pool. my friend favourite colour!! lol!! try changing the whole water. remove it from the pool and try to clean the base. i hope that helps. haha
@kellyclarkson244 (223)
• Singapore
2 Jun 08
ok. my bad. maybe u should renew your base as in change the thing on the floor. u know what i mean? maybe try putting anti mould or something. haha
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
3 Jun 08
Our pool turns green too, we found it was a problem with our vacuum. Is your vacuum fairly new? Ours was moving around but wasn't cleaning the algae off because some parts of it were not functioning properly.
Also, in the hotter months I've found that we need to scrub our pool more. Is your pool a bromine pool or a chlorine pool? Our pool at home is on chlorine.
I volunteer at a place where we have the nastiest pools, a marine mammal rehab center. We have to drain them and scrub the poop and algae out. I think the poop causes more algae to grow in those though. It takes a lot of scrubbing and a lot of bleach. If your pool is really bad (hopefully not that bad!), you might have to drain and scrub. Then just keep on top of it more to avoid further full on scrubbing and draining later.
@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
2 Jun 08
I wish I had a pool.LOL I do know you have use a tester on it every day. Go to the pool place where you bought it and they will help you.
@tinabug (11)
• United States
6 Jun 08
hi shymurl, we had the same problem with our swimming pool last year. what we did was add some mineral stain out to it and it cleared up in two hours. Maybe you should give that a try . It worked for us. the only thing is you have to add it once a weak because the minerals have layers. good luck i hope this helps
@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
2 Jun 08
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060803134308AA6I9Ao
maybe those answers will help. I had to drain it once and keep shocking it. Maybe contact the place where you bought the pool for info. I hope you get it fixed soon .