How do you get green colour out of swimming pool water?

Answer 1

This problem plagued me for 4 weeks until I finally found a knowledgeble person to help me. Use this technique and you can clean a heviliy algead pool in 3 days.

1st get your water chemistry balanced with a high PH and nominal chlorine level

2nd. turn off your filter.

3rd. Add Aluminum sulfide (alum) to your pool. This is a coagulant that can be purchsed at better pool supply stores. IMPORTANT: do not run the filter!

4th. wait at least 6 hours with the filiter off.

5th. add water to pool positioning the hose end in the skimmer recess and raise the level to the top of the skimmer port.

Your water should now be clear, but you have a lot of dead algae on the bottom of your pool. Don't be mislead into thinking your pool filter will clean it out -it will not. This junk must be vacuumed to waste.

6th. Plug the vacuum hose into the skimmer port (keep the filling hose tucked into the skimmer port next to the vacuum hose).

7th. set your filter to waste and begin vacuuming. Make an effort not to stir up the debris as you vacuum, this is hard but with practice you will get the hang of it.

8th. Vaccum as long as you can still see what you are doing (with severe silting it is inevitable that you will stir up dead algae and no longer see the pool bottom). Because your garden hose is tucked next to the vacuum port you should be able to safely vacuum until the water level is no more than 18 inches below the skimmer port.

9th. stop vacuuming and turn the filter off. It is o.k. if your water looks green again because of the stirred up algae. Leave the filter off!!! also leave the vacuum and garden hose in place and bring the water level back up.

10th. repeat the vacuum and fill process 3-4 times or as needed. you can add chlorine during this process, but do not run the filter as it will only stir up the water again. Use a brush to get isolated pockets of debris as needed.

11th. When the debris is off the pool bottom AND your water is clear you are now ready to shock and add PH increase to your pool and begin operating your filter at normal intervals.

This technique requires a good deal of new water and vacuum time, but it works great. I can't stress enouph about avoiding any method that involves the filter to clean dead algae. The dead algae particles are just too small to be trapped in the filter, be it DE or sand.

Hmm, I don't know if I'd go thru all those many steps.. But if you are cleaning a total swamp maybe you have to. Why won't you simply clean or backwash filter, adjust your pH, add about 4 gallons of chlorine 12% run the filter 24/7. Next day b/w filter, maintain high chlorine and by end of 2nd day you should be able to see the bottom of the pool if not sooner. As you make more progress with water clarity you may be able to cut the run time back considerably. From there it should be even simpler.

Green algae is a common swimming pool problem, which may appear as a greenish growth on the floor and walls of a swimming pool, a green tint to the pool water, or greenish material suspended in the pool water. The only swimming pool chemical that will kill an algae growth is chlorine based swimming pool "shock". Shock is a granular form of highly concentrated chlorine, which quickly raises the chlorine level of the swimming pool water. The elevated chlorine level makes the pool water conditions unlivable for anything organic, and algae quickly dies.

Brush the walls and floor of the swimming pool to remove as much of the algae as possible. This will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to kill and clear the algae bloom.

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Ensure that the pH level is within the range of 7.2 - 7.6. This will ensure that any chlorine added will work more efficiently - high pH levels in particular will impair the efficiency of the chlorine doing its job.With the pool filter system running, add a chlorine based swimming pool shock at the rate of 1 lb. per 7,500 gallons (or follow the pool shock manufacturer's dosage suggestion for killing algae). The pool filter system should continue to run 24 hours a day.

If the condition of the swimming pool does not significantly improve after 12-24 hours of filtering, add a second dose of chlorine pool shock at the increased rate. Repeat this process until the algae has been eliminated.Once the algae is dead it will turn a white or grayish color, and it will be suspended in the pool water or settle to the floor. When there is no longer any sign of the color green in your pool, thoroughly vacuum the swimming pool. It is recommended that you vacuum dead alge to waste and not through filter.The pool filter should be backwashed or cleaned to be sure that dead algae is not trapped inside the filter. If the filter is not thoroughly cleaned the algae may quickly return.

Test and balance all of the pool chemical levels using the following guidelines. Free Chlorine: 1-3 ppm, pH: 7.2 - 7.6, Alkalinity: 80 - 120 ppm and Calcium Hardness: 200 - 350 ppm.

Begin adding an algaecide pool chemical on a weekly basis to prevent algae from returning.

Answer 2

1)The first thing to do is to mske sure that all the leaves have been removed from the pool. 2) Make sure the PH is right before adding chlorine. 3) Add chlorine but never in daytime. The sun will waste it.The best time is after sunset. And, believe me, I have a lot of experience with pools. I nursed a large one for twenty years. J.P.

Answer 3

Depends how much green is in it and what kind of pool: Mobile pool with little green in it on the floor and sides- jump in and scrub it or drain it and then scrub it. Ground pool with little green on the floor and sides- same answer. Mobile pool with lots of green in it-drain it pick out the algae throw that away then scrub throughly Ground pool with lots of green in it- same answer.

Answer 4

i need to know how to get rid of green water

Answer 5

There are a couple of ways to get green algae out of a pool. One way is to use chlorine.

Answer 6

Vacuum if necessary then shock it.

Answer 7

bleach!