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I'll preface this by stating that I am one of the least handy people I know, and have near zero knowledge of pool maintenance. The house I'm renting right now has a fairly quicky pool in the backyard, with two waterfalls that flow into a basin above the pool (basin is roughly 15ft long x 10ftwide by 1ft deep), which then flow into the pool itself. it doesn't hold a ton of water, but it's enough that draining and filling the basin each time we want to use the pool would be a huge waste of water. The problem is that even with running the waterfalls most days to cycle the water, I am still getting a ton of algal growth in there. The homeowner does pay for a pool service guy, but when I talked to him about this last summer his remedy was to throw some small chlorine tablets loose into the basin, which did next to nothing. So it seems like it will be on me to figure out how to fix this. I've done some reading on the matter and there seems to be some conflicting information on what the best combination of products to use is, so I'm hoping you guys can just give me a straight forward step by step solution, preferably one that isn't too expensive if possible.  Edit: figured it out, hopefully algae free some time next week. Eptar fucked around with this message at 04:12 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 24, 2014 01:25
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What was the fix?
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May 27, 2014 02:07
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1) scrub the algae and run the waterfalls + filter 2) make sure the pH is in range, then shock the basin 3) add an algaecide to the basin and let sit for 12-24 hours 4)scrub & filter again After that, just maintain the basin by adding an algaecide to it any time it's going to be not receiving fresh water from the main pool for a while. I also bought a separate chlorine tablet dispenser for the basin area to assist the algaecide.
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May 27, 2014 09:20
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