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Cleaning your pool is a must to ensure your comfort and protect your equipment.
This doesn’t demand intensive labor, but it does take a steady commitment. Expect to spend between four and eight hours each week during peak season—a small outlay compared to the amount of time you’ll spend enjoying your pool.
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First make sure you have good flow. Clean your filter and all your
baskets. |
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Next, balance your water. If your alkalinity is low, you're running
the risk of staining your pool. |
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Now use an algaecide and shock your pool. When you purchase the
algaecide, ask someone at Tubs of Fun for a recommendation. The ones
that have been found to work best require you to shock with the
treatment. |
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After that, run your filter 24 hours and test it again. The
algaecide will bring your chlorine level down so you must make sure it
does not get too low. At this point your water may be cloudy or you may
have a lot of dead algae on the floor. |
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Vacuum up the algae and clean the filter out. If the water is
cloudy, just keep cleaning that filter out until that water is clear. |
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| Another effective way to solve this problem, using the
cartridge filter: |
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Kill the algae by using a lot of chlorine, algaecide etc. |
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Coagulate the dead algae into large clumps. Come in to Tubs of Fun
and get a spray coagulator that attaches to a garden hose. Spray it over
the pool and let it sit overnight. |
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Add diatomaceous earth to the filter. This white powder is sold in
our 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. |
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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. |
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Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the pool is clear. |
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| This works, and you don't lose pool water, but here are a couple of points: |
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Prevention is best. Keep chlorine levels over 2ppm, use algaecide,
even when the pool looks good. |
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The cartridge filter rarely survives. Once the pool is clear, buy a
new filter and throw out the old one. |
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