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hey everyone i just recently moved into a friends house with a pool and i decided to take responsibility of maintaining the pool. right now its a little fuzzy, you cant really see the bottom but the water is blue... nothing like a nasty green or anything like that. my friend has been running the filter 24/7 to try and clean the water up. i dont really know anything about maintaining a pool so i was wondering if it would just be easier and cheaper to drain the pool and fill it up... any help would be appreciated

Take a water sample to the local pool store. They will test it and sell you the appropriate chemicals to clean it up. I doubt you will have to drain it and refill it. Just filtering wont clean it up. You probably need an algaecide or something... Good Luck with it!

2009-03-31 13:56:04 by AJM182

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Any idea about the water cost? My pool size is 25,000 gallons and I like to know roughly how much does it cost. I live in California.

H2o is H2o why change the water? With proper filtering and correct chemical and PH levels their should be no need.

2009-01-28 12:24:42 by ThunderBirdGo

Price: $39.99

This model (4396841) can be used to replace filter models 4396842 and 8212650
Also reduces particulates, lead, and mercury
Does not reduce the amount of fluoride

Is there any way to prevent the slime that forms on the bottom after a day or so?

A small wash bucket for feet and a tarp to cover it up when your not using it. Get a little strainer for collecting debris that get in.

2006-06-08 17:45:24 by meb06

Price: $15.99 $8.98

Polly has the sweetest water park around
Cutant friend oinker can launch from the diving board right to the lollipop seat
Polly?s hair changes color from blue to pink

My pool is contollrd by chlorine tablets, but the water may be bad for my wife's skin. We are considering changing to salt water. <<<<<<<<<<<is this easy and is it costly?

A salt pool is just a way of generating chlorine for the water. It requires levels of salt at 3,500-4,000ppm and this water passes through a generator cell that converts the free floating chlorine ions (from the sodium chloride... salt) into hypochlorous acid (the compound in all chlorinated pools).

If your wife has a problem with chlorine then she will have a problem with a salt chlorinated pool as well unfortunately.

You can easily convert it.... stop using chlorine for 48-72 hours. Add enough salt to raise the levels to 4,000ppm. Install the generator cell between the pump and the filter. Plug it in and let it run for a few days on high settings, check the chlorine levels to ensure they are between 3-5ppm, then adjust the generator back down to maintain these levels.

You don't need the pool store to do it, you don't need special things to do it, and you still need to maintain the rest of the water chemistry... the only thing you don't have to do is maintain chlorine tablets in the water.

You have to clean the cells in weak hydrochloric acid solution periodically and this removes some of the precious metals on the cells. This means you have to replace them every couple years ($200+ depending on the type) so the cost washes out to be about the same for traditional chlorination vs salt. Initial cost can be a few thousand depending on the type you get.

2007-07-07 08:44:47 by PETER M

considering theres no proper cleaning and the pump and filter they dont on?

Weird phrasing of the question. But I believe I can answer it. A pool with no circulation or chemicals will not last very long without turning green and breeding algae. Probably at most a week.

2007-07-30 09:13:58 by aliszon w