How often do you need to change your sand? I just set up the pool last month. My pool was super green. I put an extra chlorine table , I brushed the algae and shocked it TWICE. A week later it’s not green anymore and I don’t see any dead algae as much but it’s super cloudy
My chemicals are balanced, fresh sand and it’s still cloudy! I’m ready to rip my hair out. Even floc didn’t make any difference! I don’t know what the heck is wrong! Last season I didn’t have any issues!
@@pita9151 I’ve tried Clorox’s clarifiers they work but my pool skimmer only does the surface of my pool. When I turn off the skimmer it does clear up but when I agitate the bottom with my pool skimmer it’s back to square one with the cloudiness.
@@stevensolano1658 I'm on my way to find clarifier right now I've already added shock and everything seems to be level with all chems I'm hoping this will work
Took a water sample to my local pool shop. They told me the chemicals I needed... Alk UP, PH UP, Stabilizer, and Shock and instructed me to put them in in that order. So I put in half the Alk UP, waited 30 minutes, put in the other half. Then put in the PH UP and at this point, the pool water got super cloudy. I wasn't supposed to put the stabilizer till the water was clear, so I just waited.... now 4 days later, it's still cloudy from the PH UP. The pool store tells me it'll clear up in a day or two but I'm thinking it shouldn't have taken this long.
I used the floc and indeed: even if you brush very, very slowly the whole pool is cloudy again. I use waste on my pump during vacuuming so no it does not get into my filter. Still, it is time consuming and adfter three days the problem I have is far from solved. I think the whole point of floc is that the particles are still very easily buoyant. If the flocc would make them heavy like say a twig, than it would be very helpfull. As it is I have to wait until everything it on the bottom, vacuum it than the whole thing become a soup again (but a lot is also sucked out andinto the sewer). Repeat that proces time and time again (I guess) until the pool is clean. Mine is 550 cm diametre Intex XTR pool with 27000 litres of water in it so it is pretty average I guess. But this will take more than a week half an our per day vacuuming I am afraid.
I have a pool. It sucks. I hate it. We are on year 3 and I have regretted every step of the process. For some reason our water is near impossible to keep clear. our filter runs 24/7, I backwash almost daily and get gross water out, so its working. Chemical test strips show good chlorine/Ph levels. Clarifier doesn't work, we use algeacide, all to no avail.
If you have algae it is from phosphates in the pool. We had an algae issue u til I found Pool RX. It looks like a lead shot in a little plastic basket, costs probably between 50 to 90 bucks depending on size of your pool, but you buy it once a season. Vacuum your pool out, backwash the filter, then put that pool Rx in the pump basket. Algae is gone. One warning, it uses copper so blonde haired kids need to wash their hair after with a special shampoo or rinse it with vinegar first before showering. Or they could have a little green in their hair. Not blonde, no issues. As far as pool water though, it really cuts down on costs of chemicals you have to buy to fight for a clear pool.
@@MrChristopoop you took the words right out of my mouth Chris. Just explained all this at my pool store { they had never heard of it} !!!! I have had a continual battle with algae { i live in the Caribbean} endless shock{ cal Hypo} endless tablets, needless to say, my CYA stabiliser 50% comes from tabs and Calcium , comes from the shock , is through the roof, my chlorine wont free up, so partial draining is needed. That said, the pool maintenance guys here on you tube agree the ones with poolRX are the cleanest , Spread the word Chris
I’m confused you said you wanted out of the pool but no matter what you do is going to the filter system. How do you get it out of the pool? I’ve got an above ground pool and we have cloudy water. The total hardness is low the chlorine is low the free chlorine is high and the pH is high the total alkalinity and stabilizer are OK according to the test strip lol. But we have blue cloudy water.
Question: Would a solar cover "break down" and create small plastic debris, to cloudy the water? The bubbles on the solar cover seem to have broken open and no longer hold air? We have cloudy water; we are wondering if there is a connection??
Thank you for this video. I may have a circulation issue and the floor drain is clogged. I tried cleaning with brush down there and got some green stuff to float out but was not being sucked into the floor drain. any suggestions or videos to look more into this ?
I did not winterize my pool and when opening it up the water was a bit green. But that was quickly fixed. But around the edge of the floor and a bit on the wall I have scrubbed off some dark green growth. But now the water is not that clear anymore. Would the clarifier do the job or should it be shocked?
So what did you do? I think anti algae should have fixed the job. I did not winterise my pool this year as opposed to last year in the sense that I did not cover it. Last year I did so in october. Opened the thing up in April (we have a full inverter heat pump) and the bath was simply crystal clear. So yeah: I will winterise it properly next winter. Hilsen fra Holland.
what I read that clarifier only works on getting rid of PH cloudy problems but flocculant gets the micro dust and dead algae and drops them to the bottom. Not sure if clarifier will also work with dead algae floating around the pool? It looks like gray dust.
Im here watching cause I followed the advice to apply baby powder on my intex liner before putting it away for the winter, now here we are in the spring and my water is cloudy with a gunky film on the bottom!
Should we be putting the magic eraser in our skimmer to prevent and clear up green algae? Also is there any known issues in using it in a saltwater pool?
@Lindsay, I tell everyone I see that is either buying a pool or in store getting chemicals for said pool, etc. hell I waited this year until two weeks ago to put it in. I just had an algae bloom because of it. Took two weeks and it is good as new. For the price of pool RX though, just buy one before each season and throw it in a week or two after you open pool. Issue free all summer. Whenever I have not run pool rx, I have had issues.
@Lindsay, also as you mentioned, pool stores don’t mention it or supply it, as they would not sell much of anything else for pool chemicals if they did. I have yet to see it in a physical pool store. Have always had to order on line
So my pool is a bestway 12” steel frame. There is greyish dust on the bottom. When I try to scoop it out with a skimmer, it goes right through it. Then the water (since I disturbed it) has all these white little flakes through it. Eventually, they all sink to the bottom again. I have used clarifier and it doesn’t work. All my chemical levels are within normal range. I shocked the pool and chlorine was really high but still, it didn’t get rid of the flakes. My filter works fine but it can’t seem to pick up all these flakes. What can I possibly do to clear the water? Is it too much calcium? Is it algae? It appeared out of no where one day and I have been struggling for days!
I paid that $100 for your website and it didnt help me at all everything on there is on your youtube it was a waste of money ... for 3 weeks ive been fighting my pool to get crystal clear but cant it stays a little cloudy i can see the bottom and everything but just cant get it crystal like it use to be. I would be able to go under water and see 1 side of the pool to the other but now i cant. I test my water twice a week and they are always good, i changed my sand to the zeo and change my lateral. So idk whats going on. Ive manual vacuum to waste, ive floc ive used clarifier and shocked twice
May be I am sort of in the same boat, it is early days here. One thing I did note with my cloudy white pool is that first of all with flocc it does sink to the bottom but vacuuming works on one hand but also mixes it up in the water. I took a big 70 kitres black bucket and poored water from my inflow in it.....that seemed clear. Then I just dipped the nucket in the water and saw the little white (I guess) dead algae in it. So my sandfilterpump does seem to filter these things out and it is patience that I need. May such a test helps you too?
OK, I’ve tried everything in my post still at night and I turned the light on. Still hazy still got those miniature particles I’ve done each part for the last week and I’m still I got rid of half of it but I’m ending up emptying my pool and putting freshwater in it again, so I think that’s what I’m gonna have to do again, I figure it’s gonna work now. I change my sand but the first day it cleaned the pool so good and it was really clean and then it hasn’t been doing his job. I guess I don’t know why I’m gonna call somebody.
You guys should talk about the cheap chemicals that have filler in it. I was told that is the reason I have cloudness which settles to the bottom because of this
Don't give up! Its so worth it, trust me! Its all about keeping the balance in the water. Use your test strips! Cloudiness does not happen much, if at all ever.
Please help! Got a new liner, filled my above ground pool with well water, unfortunately rich in minerals. My pool water is brown, how do I fix this ? Thank you
Got a 15’ round above ground Intex. We had a green algae problem and fixed it with your advice! Thanks swim university. But we still have a blue cloudy pool for 2 weeks. Was going to try floc (clarifier isn’t helping-maybe not enough?). But you say not to vacuum it up into the filter because it spits it right back into the pool. How can I use the floc then? Please help!
Hi. Hope to get some help. I have added the pool clarifier as per manufacturer’s instructions and left the sand filtration system running for 12hrs. That worked for a bit but when dropped bu robotic pool cleaner in i came back 2hrs later to a cloudy pool again. I can’t figure out what happened and what to do next. Any advice would be most appreciated. Thanks
Somewhat the same here: What happens is that these things make the particles heavier so they can fall to the bottom only to be easily stired up again when you try to vacuum it. It will be a lengthy process over here I guess. May be I will just get rid of all the water, clean the sandfilter etc and start over again...
My pool Is a milky color after shocking. We were dealing with a cloudy/milky pool post shocking then we added clarifier, then it was still cloudy then we added floc, vacuumed then it was better but still cloudy then we shocked it again and now its milky/cloudy I have no idea what to do. Vinyl pool 25,000 gallons Sand filter
Im having the same issue as you. Vinnyl pool 7500 gallons. And did the same steps as you. Water is blue but still milky. Ive backwash and rinse the sald filter 3x with no resolve.😒
Don't use floc in the video that cloudiness stays at the bottom of the pool because all the little molecules are getting grouped together so if you vacuum it through the bottom you're blowing it right out your jets back into the pool he said in the video when you use floc and have the cloudy water in the bottom you have to physically move it very slowly with your vacuum across the bottom of your pool out of the pool so you're going to drain some of the water. He actually said it was better to use clarifier
@@alfyanrauf6616 With floc you add, run the pump for a few hours to mix it in the water, then shut it off overnight and the particles settle to the bottom. Vacuum to waste so it does NOT go in the filter but gets dumped on the ground. If nothing settles its not a micro particle issue but a chemistry issue.
I would not recommend swimming in cloudy pool. If a non-swimmer falls in or someone otherwise sinks below visibility level, they may be difficult to find and rescue.
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How often do you need to change your sand? I just set up the pool last month. My pool was super green. I put an extra chlorine table , I brushed the algae and shocked it TWICE. A week later it’s not green anymore and I don’t see any dead algae as much but it’s super cloudy
If your pool stays cloudy after adding flocculant, does it mean you need more?
My chemicals are balanced, fresh sand and it’s still cloudy! I’m ready to rip my hair out. Even floc didn’t make any difference! I don’t know what the heck is wrong! Last season I didn’t have any issues!
So basically it could be anything. Great!
Basically
it's freaking driving me crazy
@@pita9151 I’ve tried Clorox’s clarifiers they work but my pool skimmer only does the surface of my pool. When I turn off the skimmer it does clear up but when I agitate the bottom with my pool skimmer it’s back to square one with the cloudiness.
@@stevensolano1658 I'm on my way to find clarifier right now I've already added shock and everything seems to be level with all chems I'm hoping this will work
Yes it could be anything.
Also, I'm having trouble getting water to the "bottom of the pool."
Anyone? Anyone?
Took a water sample to my local pool shop. They told me the chemicals I needed... Alk UP, PH UP, Stabilizer, and Shock and instructed me to put them in in that order. So I put in half the Alk UP, waited 30 minutes, put in the other half. Then put in the PH UP and at this point, the pool water got super cloudy. I wasn't supposed to put the stabilizer till the water was clear, so I just waited.... now 4 days later, it's still cloudy from the PH UP. The pool store tells me it'll clear up in a day or two but I'm thinking it shouldn't have taken this long.
I used the floc and indeed: even if you brush very, very slowly the whole pool is cloudy again. I use waste on my pump during vacuuming so no it does not get into my filter. Still, it is time consuming and adfter three days the problem I have is far from solved. I think the whole point of floc is that the particles are still very easily buoyant. If the flocc would make them heavy like say a twig, than it would be very helpfull. As it is I have to wait until everything it on the bottom, vacuum it than the whole thing become a soup again (but a lot is also sucked out andinto the sewer). Repeat that proces time and time again (I guess) until the pool is clean. Mine is 550 cm diametre Intex XTR pool with 27000 litres of water in it so it is pretty average I guess. But this will take more than a week half an our per day vacuuming I am afraid.
I have a pool. It sucks. I hate it. We are on year 3 and I have regretted every step of the process. For some reason our water is near impossible to keep clear. our filter runs 24/7, I backwash almost daily and get gross water out, so its working. Chemical test strips show good chlorine/Ph levels. Clarifier doesn't work, we use algeacide, all to no avail.
Me too, I want to remove the pool
If you have algae it is from phosphates in the pool. We had an algae issue u til I found Pool RX. It looks like a lead shot in a little plastic basket, costs probably between 50 to 90 bucks depending on size of your pool, but you buy it once a season. Vacuum your pool out, backwash the filter, then put that pool Rx in the pump basket. Algae is gone. One warning, it uses copper so blonde haired kids need to wash their hair after with a special shampoo or rinse it with vinegar first before showering. Or they could have a little green in their hair. Not blonde, no issues. As far as pool water though, it really cuts down on costs of chemicals you have to buy to fight for a clear pool.
@@MrChristopoop you took the words right out of my mouth Chris. Just explained all this at my pool store { they had never heard of it} !!!! I have had a continual battle with algae { i live in the Caribbean} endless shock{ cal Hypo} endless tablets, needless to say, my CYA stabiliser 50% comes from tabs and Calcium , comes from the shock , is through the roof, my chlorine wont free up, so partial draining is needed. That said, the pool maintenance guys here on you tube agree the ones with poolRX are the cleanest , Spread the word Chris
I’m confused you said you wanted out of the pool but no matter what you do is going to the filter system. How do you get it out of the pool? I’ve got an above ground pool and we have cloudy water. The total hardness is low the chlorine is low the free chlorine is high and the pH is high the total alkalinity and stabilizer are OK according to the test strip lol. But we have blue cloudy water.
Hi, May I use my robot to clean vacuum the bottom of the pool? After FLOC treatment?
Question: Would a solar cover "break down" and create small plastic debris, to cloudy the water? The bubbles on the solar cover seem to have broken open and no longer hold air? We have cloudy water; we are wondering if there is a connection??
What’s your views on polyshere filtration balls instead of using sand in your pool filter??
Thank you for this video. I may have a circulation issue and the floor drain is clogged. I tried cleaning with brush down there and got some green stuff to float out but was not being sucked into the floor drain. any suggestions or videos to look more into this ?
I did not winterize my pool and when opening it up the water was a bit green. But that was quickly fixed. But around the edge of the floor and a bit on the wall I have scrubbed off some dark green growth. But now the water is not that clear anymore. Would the clarifier do the job or should it be shocked?
So what did you do? I think anti algae should have fixed the job. I did not winterise my pool this year as opposed to last year in the sense that I did not cover it. Last year I did so in october. Opened the thing up in April (we have a full inverter heat pump) and the bath was simply crystal clear. So yeah: I will winterise it properly next winter. Hilsen fra Holland.
what I read that clarifier only works on getting rid of PH cloudy problems but flocculant gets the micro dust and dead algae and drops them to the bottom. Not sure if clarifier will also work with dead algae floating around the pool? It looks like gray dust.
Im here watching cause I followed the advice to apply baby powder on my intex liner before putting it away for the winter, now here we are in the spring and my water is cloudy with a gunky film on the bottom!
Hahahahaha
To update if anyone was watching this...clarifier worked AMAZING. Pool was clear in 2 days!
Should we be putting the magic eraser in our skimmer to prevent and clear up green algae? Also is there any known issues in using it in a saltwater pool?
We do but idk if it helps
@@Rockchain check out PoolRX for six months algae prevention , most companies wont recommend it as you dont use as much chemicals
@Lindsay, I tell everyone I see that is either buying a pool or in store getting chemicals for said pool, etc. hell I waited this year until two weeks ago to put it in. I just had an algae bloom because of it. Took two weeks and it is good as new. For the price of pool RX though, just buy one before each season and throw it in a week or two after you open pool. Issue free all summer. Whenever I have not run pool rx, I have had issues.
@Lindsay, also as you mentioned, pool stores don’t mention it or supply it, as they would not sell much of anything else for pool chemicals if they did. I have yet to see it in a physical pool store. Have always had to order on line
Very useful, thanks
So my pool is a bestway 12” steel frame. There is greyish dust on the bottom. When I try to scoop it out with a skimmer, it goes right through it. Then the water (since I disturbed it) has all these white little flakes through it. Eventually, they all sink to the bottom again. I have used clarifier and it doesn’t work. All my chemical levels are within normal range. I shocked the pool and chlorine was really high but still, it didn’t get rid of the flakes. My filter works fine but it can’t seem to pick up all these flakes. What can I possibly do to clear the water? Is it too much calcium? Is it algae? It appeared out of no where one day and I have been struggling for days!
Great job and help !!
I paid that $100 for your website and it didnt help me at all everything on there is on your youtube it was a waste of money ... for 3 weeks ive been fighting my pool to get crystal clear but cant it stays a little cloudy i can see the bottom and everything but just cant get it crystal like it use to be. I would be able to go under water and see 1 side of the pool to the other but now i cant. I test my water twice a week and they are always good, i changed my sand to the zeo and change my lateral. So idk whats going on. Ive manual vacuum to waste, ive floc ive used clarifier and shocked twice
May be I am sort of in the same boat, it is early days here. One thing I did note with my cloudy white pool is that first of all with flocc it does sink to the bottom but vacuuming works on one hand but also mixes it up in the water. I took a big 70 kitres black bucket and poored water from my inflow in it.....that seemed clear. Then I just dipped the nucket in the water and saw the little white (I guess) dead algae in it. So my sandfilterpump does seem to filter these things out and it is patience that I need. May such a test helps you too?
What number do I set my chlorinator? I have numbers on the dial that go fromm1 to 7 and Full
If I'm adding algaecide, should I wait to add clarifier after I vacuum to waste or before (directly after the algaecide)?
Hth clarifier did nothing. Walmarts blue algicide/clarifier was my go 2!
My pool is now clear but my testing strip is still off. Why?
OK, I’ve tried everything in my post still at night and I turned the light on. Still hazy still got those miniature particles I’ve done each part for the last week and I’m still I got rid of half of it but I’m ending up emptying my pool and putting freshwater in it again, so I think that’s what I’m gonna have to do again, I figure it’s gonna work now. I change my sand but the first day it cleaned the pool so good and it was really clean and then it hasn’t been doing his job. I guess I don’t know why I’m gonna call somebody.
You guys should talk about the cheap chemicals that have filler in it. I was told that is the reason I have cloudness which settles to the bottom because of this
I could even give you a link to a product to test from a big box store. It caused me a cloudy pool.
Hey there I have sand filter and its mild cloudy I can see bottom of pool what should I do
Uhg I just got a pool and I regret it. This is too complicated
Don't give up! Its so worth it, trust me! Its all about keeping the balance in the water. Use your test strips! Cloudiness does not happen much, if at all ever.
@@Kiramco thanks now I got the hang of it
@@KiramcoI have an above ground pool and it seems like it’s always cloudy what am I doing wrong?
@@Kiramcomy pool is all of a sudden cloudy. First time since 2009. 😢
Money pit for chemicals.
how many times can the cartridge be cleaned? I have PA 120
Please help! Got a new liner, filled my above ground pool with well water, unfortunately rich in minerals. My pool water is brown, how do I fix this ?
Thank you
Did it turn brown after you added chlorine?
I’m on a well too. It’s a real pain. We just installed some filters to remove some minerals prior to adding well water each day.
Thanks for the video. I was under the impression clarifier and floc were the same thing but clearly (ha!) I was wrong.
How to do it the filter??
Got a 15’ round above ground Intex. We had a green algae problem and fixed it with your advice! Thanks swim university. But we still have a blue cloudy pool for 2 weeks. Was going to try floc (clarifier isn’t helping-maybe not enough?). But you say not to vacuum it up into the filter because it spits it right back into the pool. How can I use the floc then? Please help!
You can't use floc with a cartridge filter, but if you have a sand or DE filter and can set your vacuum to waste, you can use it
Hi. Hope to get some help. I have added the pool clarifier as per manufacturer’s instructions and left the sand filtration system running for 12hrs. That worked for a bit but when dropped bu robotic pool cleaner in i came back 2hrs later to a cloudy pool again. I can’t figure out what happened and what to do next. Any advice would be most appreciated. Thanks
Somewhat the same here: What happens is that these things make the particles heavier so they can fall to the bottom only to be easily stired up again when you try to vacuum it. It will be a lengthy process over here I guess. May be I will just get rid of all the water, clean the sandfilter etc and start over again...
is it normal for pool water to be cloudy after shocking
Does it matter what time of day you put in the clarifier, like the shock treatment?
The only timing consideration is that you'll need to run your filter 24 hours or until it clears up. But always read the manufacturer's instructions.
Swim University, thanks!
My pool Is a milky color after shocking. We were dealing with a cloudy/milky pool post shocking then we added clarifier, then it was still cloudy then we added floc, vacuumed then it was better but still cloudy then we shocked it again and now its milky/cloudy I have no idea what to do.
Vinyl pool
25,000 gallons
Sand filter
Im having the same issue as you. Vinnyl pool 7500 gallons. And did the same steps as you. Water is blue but still milky. Ive backwash and rinse the sald filter 3x with no resolve.😒
Don't use floc in the video that cloudiness stays at the bottom of the pool because all the little molecules are getting grouped together so if you vacuum it through the bottom you're blowing it right out your jets back into the pool he said in the video when you use floc and have the cloudy water in the bottom you have to physically move it very slowly with your vacuum across the bottom of your pool out of the pool so you're going to drain some of the water. He actually said it was better to use clarifier
@@JD-ed1uq what if the cloud doesnt settle at the bottom? Does it mean the floc doesnt work?
@@alfyanrauf6616 With floc you add, run the pump for a few hours to mix it in the water, then shut it off overnight and the particles settle to the bottom. Vacuum to waste so it does NOT go in the filter but gets dumped on the ground. If nothing settles its not a micro particle issue but a chemistry issue.
@@JD-ed1uq you lose water because you vacuum to waste. It doesn't recirculate back through the jets, it pumps out to your yard
Is it safe to swim in cloudy water?
You'll need to determine the source of the cloudiness. If it's algae-based, for example, we recommend treating that before swimming in your pool.
Swim University, thanks!
I would not recommend swimming in cloudy pool. If a non-swimmer falls in or someone otherwise sinks below visibility level, they may be difficult to find and rescue.
I tested my pool and everything wad balanced but the water is cloudy.
Most like a filtration issue. I changed my sand and it cleared in a day.
When did Bob Vila become such an expert on cloudy pool water? Dude thinks he can do anything with that site 😂
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