Help!... My swimming pool is green.?

Question

Hi, about a week ago my swimming pool (a 15' by 42" ring pool) started turning green. I put a gallon of bleach in it (something a friend told us to do and it's worked all summer so far up till now) and nothing. So like the next day I put another 2 gallons in it. Still nothing. So off to the store for some shock treatment and a new filter. Went home and changed the filter and I put in a bag (1 pound) of super sock it in it.......nothing! Back to the store for more shock treatment. This time I put 2 bags of super sock it in it and put about 5 1" chlorinating tablets in the basket to the filter. Got up this morning and guess what.......nothing. It's still green! Now the water itself is clear. When you take a clear glass and dip it in the pool its clean. Looks a little cloudy..... but clean. What do I do next? Or more like what did I do wrong? Can someone please help.

Answer 1

If the pH is not balanced your shock is not going to be effective.

After you balance the chemicals then check the chlorine level.

Use a clearing agent which will cause the stuff in the water to drop to the bottom where you can vacuum it.

Use an algecide to get rid of the green stuff.

Answer 2

it like mould our not

Answer 3

Part of your problem is... Your Friend.  While your friend has good intentions, you should always use pool chemicals for your pool.  Regular bleach, whether it is a brand name, or a generic store brand, is only about half the available chlorine <bleach> content as Swimming pool Chlorine in liquid form.  So 1 gallon of swimming pool chlorine shock, is roughly 2 gallons of regular store bleach.  Both items, when you compare prices, you will only save pennies using store bleach, so, spend the extra few pennies and buy the chemicals DESIGNED and MADE for your pool.

Part of your problem is that you have one of those easy set pools with the inflatable ring.  the Filter systems on them are junk, in my opinion, and if they tell you that you should run the pool 6 hours, i tell you that you should run it for 10 hours because the filter systems on them are not that big, nor do i feel that they are as effective as a regular pool filter.  They're Cheap money, and because they're cheap money, you get cheap products.  Hence... you get what youy pay for.

So... now that you have the pool clean, you need to get some chlorine STABILIZER also called Cyanuric Acid, into your pool.  The problem with this, and there are a few designs of these easy set filters out there, is that you need to add the stabilizer, which prolongs the life of your chlorine, into a skimmer.  Since these done have skimmers, this is going to be a problem for you.

You should take a 20 ounce soda bottle container filled with your pool water to a store, that will test it.  Have them test it, and follow the instructions that they give you for the pool.  Simply adding chlrorine is not enough.  As for what you did... you were adding cheap chlorine, or half content chlorine and it was keeping it somewhat clear but over time, with the additional heat, and maybe extra swimming brought on by the heat, the chlorine content couldnt hold.  So. Eventually you had algae form because of the chlorine being low or non-existant.   You need to keep chlorine Tabs in your floater at all times.  You can remove it when you swim, but you dont have to.  You probably want to keep anywhere between 6-8 1 inch tabs in your floater at all times.  If you find that this makes your chlorine too high <like 2-3 PPM on the test kit, then reduce it by 1 or 2 tabs, and take a reading the next day.

The chlorine Tabs keep a residual chlorine level in your pool.  The only time you need to use shock is once every week, usually i suggest on a sunday after the weekend when the pools traditionally get the heaviest use.  Or... if you have a large party, and you get many many people in and out of your pool all day long, it would be a good decision to give y our pool a shocking that night.  Because you said you have a ring pool.  You would probably be better off to use liquid chlorine shock.

Hope this information helps you.

HAve your water tested, and follow the instructions. to properly balance your water.  Properly balanced water is easier to maintain, and over the course of a summer, you will spend less in chlorine costs because you wont be shocking it every 2 days trying to fix problems.  When you have a pool problem, everyone just assumes its chlorine related, and they shock the pool.  Sometimes its not chlorine related and you are just wasting the chemical.

So.. have it tested, and you will find that your pool water will improve, and maintaining it will be easier for you as the summer rolls along.

Answer 4

um do you have a filter you need one of those and a thing you put clorene in and it floats around the pool and when you swim take it out then when done swimming put it back in