I have had white flakes in my salt water pool for months now.I have tried I everything. I need REAL answers!?

Question

I have contacted several pool companies, my pool builder, pool service companies and still can not get a firm answer. Just try this and try that. I have had my water tested over and over, my hardness and things are within range. We have vaccumed and backwashed multiple times in the last month or so and we just had a new salt cell put on. The flakes pile up on the floor at every jet. We clean and vaccum and the next day they are back! I need help and want someone who is really experienced with this so I can get it resolved. It has only been about a week and half since we replaced the salt cell. We have not vaccumed to waste because losing so much water and having to add so much more, we would throw off our chemicals. Isn't it sufficient to vaccum and then back wash as to clean the filter afterwards? We have even taken the filter apart twice in the last month to clean the grids and check them jus to be sure it wasn't our filter. PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

i have a pool and i am a lifeguard and i clean pools, I had this problem in my own pool usually its comes from foam pool toys or trees, to get rid of this use a bag of shock and let it rest there for a full day dont let anyone get in.

Answer 2

Interesting.  Can you collect enough of these flakes to send out for testing?  They could be a precipitate of something but I think they are PVC from the plumbing used on your pool.  They should decrease over time unless some part of the plumbing system is eroding causing flakes.  Could also be the chlorine generator cell since it is make from plastic.

If your pool has been started up from new you could be seeing the chemicals used to bring the water up to specs like cyanuric acid but it is a light buff color.  Calcium chloride is near white and could take some time to fully dissolve.

To conserve water vacuum to filter if possible by using your skimmer.

You're welcome!!