OH YES! Here is my favorite saying when it comes to this question. "You don't want to swim in the water you drink and you don't want to drink the water you swim in." When the city sanitizes the water they usually inject the water with ammonia to slow the chlorine's reaction rate down so that the chorine lasts longer. This works great when the water is underground and protected from the outside environment. Once the water hits your pool the ammonias they injected are going to create problems for your pool water. The only way to get rid of ammonias is to shock treat the pool. If you are filling the pool with well water or artesian well water DO NOT SHOCK THE POOL UNTIL IT HAS BEEN TESTED FOR IRON BY A SWIMMING POOL PROFESSIONAL. Failure to do this can lead to the pool surface of the pool being stained. And that boys and girls is why you want to shock your pool after it is filled.
Here's a quick tip on chemically cleaning or killing the algae living in the sand in a sand filter. The next time you shock your swimming pool, poor the shock or bleach in the skimmer. This will provide a very high level of chlorine in the filter for a very short period of time. Long enough to kill the stubborn algae living in the filter but not long enough to hurt your plumbing.
If you are getting sand coming into the pool and have a sand filter you may have to replace worn laterals in the sand filter.
Nothing if its a sand filter However if sand is coming into the pool from the filter then you may have to replace one ore more laterals in the sand filter as they have worn and are letting sand through to the pool,
For what? Building a cove for a vinyl liner. Adding sand to a sand filter. Building a sand box. For the base of a pool. ????
If you have a sand filter the laterals in it may be starting to show signs of wear these wil blow sand from the sand filter into the pool when they wear out.
The sand filter wont make a pool green this happens a s a result of algae.
It could damage the internal PVC of the filter and cause sand to get in your pool.
It depends on what you mean by low. You need to check your filter's manual, and see what level it SHOULD be. Lower than that, usually means you are losing sand into the pool (you'll know!) or when you backwash (because the pump is too big for the filter.) If you are losing sand, you need to correct the cause and then add more sand, after you've resolved the problem.
Sounds like it may have cleaned up some pipes and/or filter sand. If that's the case, be sure to backwash your filter.
Need to rephrase question.
Possibly you are in need of new sand or you can go to the pool shop and ask if they have a chemical sand cleaner.
If you have a sand filter as your filter you may need to remove some of the sand from time to time, But most will be dunped during backwashing. If you have a cartridge filter you may have to clean it more often. If you use D.E. the sand will be dunped when you backwash,Other then that there is no harm. A: Why would you want to be tracking sand into your clean pool? You are just adding more contaminants. YUK !