I have a quick set ring pool and went on vacation. It is so dirty now nothing seems to clear the water? help.?
A friend was supposed to help me maintain it while we were gone and did not. I can’t get the water clear no matter what I do now. I am so upset about this, anyone know how to help get the water to not look like milk?
You didn’t say what you have tried so far. I’m going to assume some things and base my answer on typical situations.
Unless you have a really good and inexpensive water supply you might want to try a couple of things before you dump and refill. You will see though that because of all the possible chemical treatments and filtration that follow it might be easier to dump and refill. However, you will still need to treat the new water or it will get cloudy sooner or later again. So if you are going to have to treat it anyway then it may be worth trying to clean up what you have.
The short answer is to take a pint sample of your pool water to a pool supply place for testing and then follow their recommendations. They will usually test your water for free and tell you what you need to do to restore proper water balance of pH, total alkalinity and calcium hardness levels as well as tell you if you have algae and what to do to kill it and achieve adequate chlorine levels. Of course they hope you will buy supplies and chemicals from them, but you don’t have to unless you like their service.
Some of the things they will probably find and recommend are discussed below so the long answer follows.
One thing you should consider is to get a thing called a “Slime Bag”. This is a bag that filters 5 to 10 times finer particles than the cartidge filter that comes with most of the above ground EZ Setup pools. A number of online places carry them and you probably need the 12″X30″ Polishing Bag for your setup. It attaches where the water flows into your pool from the pump. Before you use it you should figure out whether you have algae or a chemical imbalance or both and solve that. Then use the Slime Bag to filter the particles our of the water that is causing it to be cloudy.
Short of having a Slime Bag, you could use a clarifier or floculent treatment, which will cause the particles to clump so the cartridge filter will trap them. Be ready to wash out the fillter frequently and maybe even replace it after a few washings.
First you have to treat the cause of the cloudiness.
Cloudy water is one of the most common pool problems and can be caused by a number of factors. It can be a symptom of inadequate filtration, pH imbalance, or inadequate chlorine levels. The cure depends on the cause. My guess is that you have either or both a pH imbalance and low chlorine levels. Combine that with a wimpy filter system and it’s no wonder the water is cloudy.
Most likely if no chlorine has been added for several days then your pool is suffering from low free available chlorine levels, which allows algae and other microbes to multiply freely, creating an organic haze. You will need to shock or super-chlorinate the pool and maintain adequate chlorine levels along with pH, hardness and alkilinity. Unfortunately this will kill the algae, which must then be filtered out. That’s where the Slime Bag makes filtering much quicker.
If pH is the problem then you will need to adjust pH, alkilinity and calcium hardness. This might help reduce the cloudiness some, but the scale will probably need to be treated with a scale remover and filtered to really clear things up. Again, the slime Bag will help speed up the filtering process.
There’s a lot here, but hopefully it will help you at least understand what might have caused the cloudiness and have some idea about how to proceed.
Good luck and have fun with the rest of your swimming season.
Jim
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