there is an assortment of proprietary "metal treatment" chemicals that can remove the rust stain. In addition vitamin"c" on the spotthe same as the vitamins that a person would take. Dry acid in a cotton sock and "swabbed " in and around the area could also do the trick, careful though you might want to pre-test a un-seen area that the "swabbing" may affect the construction material
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What to do:
First: Remove the stock filter from your pump. You can put it back in when you are finished clearing the pool of rust.
Second: Drill a bunch of holes into the bottom of the windshield washer bottle. 10 or 20 is good enough.
Third: Pack the windshield washer bottle with fiberfill. Put a lot in it. Pack it good.
Fourth: Attach your short length of hose to the bottle. Use a nylon pull tie.
Fifth: Attach the other end of the hose to the nozzle that lets water back into your pool from the pump.
Sixth: Wait overnight to see a ton of rust in your home made filter.
Tips: Remove the filter from the pool and rinse with hose water every day until the pool is clear.
Don't attach the home made filter into the nozzle that takes water from the pool. It may suck fiberfill into your pump and if it floats it will suck air into your pump and make it stop.
For those of you with the "easy Up" pools, if you add a sink strainer to the inside of the 2 litre bottle it will keep the fiber fill from bunching up in the neck of the bottle. Also the bottle will screw into the outlet once the debris cover is removed.
My above ground pool liner turned a rust color after adding calcuim hardness and then two days later I added alkalinity plus adjuster. I thought it was a bad case of alge but it turned out to be a metal stain. I purchased a metal stain test kit which has three different tests in it, after I found one that worked the best, I went back to the pool supply store and bought the stain remover. I had to use double the amount it called for but now my liner is spotless again.
The filter has nothing to do with the rust stains.
You can remove small rust stains from a plaster surface with a small amount of diluted muratic acid. There is a tool specifically for this task which will make it easier to get the acid to the stain. The tool can be found in some pool supply stores.
Ken
To remove rust from the water in a swimming pool, shock the pool until the water is clear of everything other than the rust staining. Then run the filter, backwashing frequently until the rust is gone.
Oxalic acid. Place it directly on top of the stain. This can be done with a section of PVC pipe. Put the pipe on top of the stain and pour the oxalic acid down the pipe and let it sit there for a few hours. You will have to find it at a chemical supply source in your area as pool stores do not carry it. I had a large commercial pool with a fibreglass liner that had thousands of rust stains caused by shot blasting the deck and doing the pipe thing was impractical so I shut off the equipment for 24 hours and broadcast the oxalic acid over the stained areas.
No, it'll blow right back to the pool which will then make it hard to remove. Sand filters REQUIRE a #20 grid pool filter sand. There is also another product possible called zeolite for sand filters... it will filter finer than sand.
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,
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.
Remove the old sand in the filter and replace the broken latterals and add new sand as per mfgr's specs.
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 !
It could damage the internal PVC of the filter and cause sand to get in your pool.
The sand filter wont make a pool green this happens a s a result of algae.
The Pentek ECP5-10 Filter gets rid of fine sand, dirt, silt, rust, and scale particles but does not claim to remove lead.
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.
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Yes, it just depends on what kind of sand it is
Your filter will tell you on the side of it how much media sand to put in it.