4/12/2023 0 Comments The gunk slip one pastIf you can’t find Alum in your local store, you can buy it online. You must be able to vacuum to waste the following day, vacuuming slowly to remove the wet toilet paper ‘jelly’ on the floor of the pool.More on Using Alum as a Flocculent is found here. We don’t sell Alum, but some pool stores do stock the chemical. Still a tinge of green? Add more chlorine! Next step is to add Aluminum Sulfate, in a granular flake form, at a rate of 3 lbs per 10,000 gallons. Keep adding chlorine until the pool turns a cloudy blue color. Pre-dissolve the shock into a bucket, 5 lbs. Depending on how green the pool is, you may need 10, 20 or even 30 lbs of granular chlorine. Chlorine is wasted when used to attack leaves and twigs.Lower the pH level to around 7.2, where chlorine is most potent. Remove as much organic matter as possible, to reduce the workload for your chlorine. The first step would be to spend a day or two cleaning the pool, vacuuming to waste, brushing and skimming, or using a Leaf Rake to scoop debris from the floor. Super Shock & Floc pool: If possible, drain half the pool and refill first, but if draining the pool (or refilling the pool) is not possible or convenient, let’s bring it back with a heavy shocking of 30 ppm or higher, and if possible, floc with Alum.Keep the vac running until the water covers the shallow end floor.If the liner is old and no longer resilient, there is a good chance it won’t reset without wrinkles, or it may tear when you try to reset the liner, and fill the pool. When you Set the liner, it suctions the liner tight against the walls and floor, to help remove wrinkles before filling. When clean, replace the drain cover with a new (unstained) one, and then re-set the liner using a 5-HP shop vac or high air volume blower like our Cyclone liner vac. Remove the drain cover, and get the suction hose in there, to get all of the gunk out that you can. A small amount of degreaser like TSP can be used, or Simple Green, but nothing too sudsy. Be sure to pump the water downhill or to a drain, so that it won’t come back under the pool.You can use a pressure washer ( lightly!) on the vinyl, with another person on a scrub brush. Use a Trash Pump, which can be rented, which will pass large debris without clogging, and also drain the pool in a few hours. Drain it fast, clean it fast, reset the liner and refill: For pools that have been neglected for years, a complete draining may be necessary to remove the sludge, dead animals, bicycles, etc.If you have a strong well, or have city water to the home, that won’t be a problem, and is the cheapest and safest way to bring back a dark green vinyl pool. Use Super Shock, which is 73% concentrate, the most powerful available.You may also need to drain and refill more than once. If you cannot see the shallow end floor, or even down past the first step of the entry stairs, it may take $100 in pool shock. You may need a LOT of chlorine, depending on the severity of the algae. Then refill the pool to the top, start the filter, vacuum and brush, balance the chemistry and shock heavily with chlorine. Drain it halfway and refill: If your pool is a swamp, but maybe not too far gone, one method is to drain it to within 3-6″ from the shallow end floor, cleaning the walls as the water drops (so algae won’t dry hard).But what if you’re feeling lucky? □ Here are some alternatives to draining a vinyl pool, or smarter ways to drain an inground vinyl pool. Very rare, but this can happen, too.Īll good reasons to not drain a vinyl liner pool. This may cause wrinkles when the liner is reset and refilled, or in cases where the liner is stiff and brittle, it may ‘snap’, and develop large tears or rips in the fabric. Or you may get a strong rainstorm, and a high water table will push water under the liner, ‘floating’ the liner in an empty, or near empty vinyl pool.Įven worse, are unstable pool walls of advanced age walls may collapse, or tilt inward when the outward pressure is removed. The most common problem is that an older liner can pull away from the walls, and shrink somewhat. For concrete pools, draining and cleaning, and perhaps acid washing or pressure washing, is a routine service, performed when stains exist or water conditions are poor, or both.įor vinyl liner pools however (and fiberglass pools too), draining completely is discouraged, and is to be avoided, unless absolutely necessary. Big problems can result from draining a vinyl liner pool.
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