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Best way to reclaim post-Ida pool?
Posted on 9/3/21 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 9/3/21 at 1:32 pm
Had a mountain of leaves and crap fall into the pool and it was already a dark green Monday morning. Once power is restored, I was thinking to filter for a short time and backwash and repeat that many times until reaching some level of relative clarity and then shocking the hell out of it. Any advice? TIA.
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Posted on 9/3/21 at 1:56 pm to Havoc
I would get leaves out best you can and start throwing gallons of bleach in there now to kill the algae. Try to get water moving and mix it with a brush or net manually. When power comes back get the pump filtering 24/7 and clean filter or backwash often. Look up SLAM on trouble free pool.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 8:39 pm to Havoc
First...even before you get power back, you should get the leaf/debris rake out and get down and scoop all that crap off the bottom of the pool. Get as much as you can of the heavy debris. I had 3 large garbage bags of cypress needles and other twigs and leaves scooped out from my pool.
My water never turned green. I used a lot of liquid chlorine before the storm and then when I got a large part of the debris removed and again threw a lot of liquid chlorine in and sort of manually agitated the water to get the chlorine to spread out.
My power was out for only3 days. Once power came back on I ran the pool cleaner for about 2 days and it picked up all the smaller debris I didn't get on the first pass.
Once that's done the water should be clear. Re-check the water chemical balance and you should be good to go.
Lastely I'll say, if your pool water was green then you need to put out a shitload of chlorine and let the pump for at least 24 hours or even 36 hours.
Hope this helps.
My water never turned green. I used a lot of liquid chlorine before the storm and then when I got a large part of the debris removed and again threw a lot of liquid chlorine in and sort of manually agitated the water to get the chlorine to spread out.
My power was out for only3 days. Once power came back on I ran the pool cleaner for about 2 days and it picked up all the smaller debris I didn't get on the first pass.
Once that's done the water should be clear. Re-check the water chemical balance and you should be good to go.
Lastely I'll say, if your pool water was green then you need to put out a shitload of chlorine and let the pump for at least 24 hours or even 36 hours.
Hope this helps.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:24 am to Havoc
Get a hose end leaf vacuum, Like this, and start getting the leaves and branches off the bottom before the power gets turned back on. For sanitizing the water and killing algae, the comments above are good.
This post was edited on 9/6/21 at 9:25 am
Posted on 9/6/21 at 10:57 am to Havoc
Get the leaves out asap. I shocked the shite out of mine prior to the storm coming
Posted on 9/11/21 at 10:44 am to Havoc
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