I just took the cover off the pool and it is a little green how do I clear it up?

Question

18ft round pool and am i suppose to prime the pump? this is our 1st time opening it any answers would be great ty

Answer 1

chlorine

Answer 2

lol

Answer 3

yes, prime the pump. Then let the filter do it's job and then backwash...Repeat

Answer 4

chlorine bomb

Answer 5

pool guy

polarus

pump

chlorene

Answer 6

yep chlorine.just fixed my pool. looks good enough to drink now.

Answer 7

Now that your cover is off, cleaned and stored, you'll need to get moving on getting the pool up and running. Letting it sit there, not circulating and not treated will just make it go greener faster.

Remove any winterizing plugs that may have been installed in the skimmer and return and reinstall the return eyeball. Re install drain plugs in the filter and pump that SHOULD have been removed at close.

When your water level is up, prime your pump by adding a bucket of water to the pump basket or let gravity do the job from the skimmer.

Turn on your pump. Next up, you'll need to balance your water. Test and adjust your pH, total alkalinity and stabilizer levels before you add chlorine or whatever sanitizer it is that you've chosen. Sanitizers don't work well until the water is balanced and it's a bit of a waste of money adding it if the water isn't in range first. You'll use more to achieve less. Super chlorinate ( shock) the pool to bring the chlorine residual up to 3.0 and fill your sanitizer dispenser ( floatie or what have you)

Once the water is balanced the combination of filtration , water chemistry and sanitizer will clear things up pretty quickly and cheaply. If the algae persists, you can add some algaecide. If you do decide to add some, don't bother with the cheap stuff. Use what's called a poly quat based algaecide. It's expensive, but it works. The cheap stuff rarely does or you need to add so much of it that it actually costs more in the long run than the poly quat.

You'll need to clean out your filter once or twice in the first week as well.

Answer 8

Lots of chemicals. Not sure what kind but I think it is called "shock" it. Think you have to wait 24 hours to get in it after. A pool person would know more

Answer 9

SHOCK

Answer 10

Answer

Another effective way to solve this problem, using the cartridge filter, is this:

1. Kill the algae- use lots of chlorine, algaecide etc. Many good suggestions are here

2. Coagualte the dead algae into large clumps. Pool supply stores sell a spray coagulator that attaches to a garden hose. Spray it over the pool.

3. let it sit overnight

4.Add diatomaceous earth to the filter. This white powder is sold in pool stores and used to be necessary before cartridges became affordable. Add a lot. This coats the filter and makes it impermeable even to algae-sized particles.

5. Run the vacuum and filter till pressure exceeds 35, then clean. Cleaning the filter causes a flood of the white earth to run off, so pick a good site. I bring mine to the car wash and clean it with the rinse pressure hose.

6. Repeat 4 and 5 until the pool is clear.

This works, and you don't lose pool water. A couple of points:

1. Prevention is best. Keep chlorine levels over 2ppm, use algaecide, even when the pool looks good.

2. The cartridge filter rarely survives. Once the pool is clear, buy a new filter and throw out the old one.

Answer 11

just get a vacum cleaner at a pool shop and it cleans the bottem and everything