We’ve had my parents’ pool for the last several years. They moved to a new house and even though the pool was already over 10 years old, none of us could let it go. So it’s hobbling along here. We’ve had holes, bought new liners (yes, liners), gotten splinters on the old deck, bought a new water pump, and brush, and net, and floats and more chemicals that I care to remember.
It’s a lot of work.
But when it’s a Carolina 101 in mid-July you just can’t beat having a pool steps away. So this year’s work has begun. Last night we took off the now disintegrated cover, which needs added to the to-buy list this year.
This is what we started with. So green it was almost black. Lots of algae, some bugs and lots of pieces of the pool cover.
Less than 24 hours later, we’ve gotten this far.
I consider it a win when we can see the bottom. I’m expecting to be able to swim somewhere between now and oh, August.
I had our in-ground pool spotless (and chemically balanced) back in March, so I decided to toss the solar blanket on it to help bring the temp up to a tolerable level.
I’m only a year into pool ownership, so I was a bit clueless. Seems that adding the cover makes it an algae aloha! I peeled back the cover 4 weeks later and it was a swamp!
Brushing and running the pump for extended hours made little difference. $50 worth of anti-algae chemicals did next to nothing. The thing that wiped out my algae and restored fun to our backyard is… chlorine – and lots of it! I used “Green To Clean” from Leslie’s Pool Supply, which (despite what you might infer from the name) isn’t an algaecide, but purely a chlorine super-booster.
There’s a wealth of info at Trouble Free Pools and from what I’ve been learning, algaecides are, at best, worthless, and in many cases cause more problems than they fix. The pros at TFP say chlorine, chlorine, chlorine and I’m a believer now.
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