- [Narrator] Why is my pool cloudy?
And how do I clear it?
Check it out.
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First, why is your pool cloudy?
And there's a few reasons it might be cloudy.
And the first reason is low sanitizers.
So you may not have enough Chlorine or Bromine or Salt
or Minerals or BAQUACIL
or whatever sanitizer you use,
there may not be enough.
And when there's not enough,
things can get into your pool
and cause it to become cloudy.
The second reason is you might have a filtration problem
or even a circulation problem
which kinda go hand in hand.
If your filter is not doing a good job
at filtering the water,
which is what it's supposed to do,
then you can get cloudy water.
And if you have a Sand filter,
basically the sand could start to be ineffective over time.
And so you may need to change the sand in your Sand filter.
If you have a DE filter,
you may want to just do a quick backwash
and change out the DE.
And if you have a Cartridge filter,
you might be having issues with your cartridge,
you may need to get it replaced.
That simple.
You can also change how your filter system is moving around
or what the circulation is doing.
Because if you had the return jets coming into your pool,
but you want to make sure the return jets
are actually moving the water around
so that that dirty water is getting into your skimmers
so that your filter can actually filter it.
So if you have main drains
in the bottom of your say Inground pool,
you want to make sure that you're pulling water
from the bottom of your pool,
as well as pulling from the top of your pool
with your regular skimmers.
And you can angle some of the jets
down towards the bottom
so that it actually like churns that dirty water
from the bottom up to the surface
so that those surface skimmers can pick it up.
The other thing, it might be is just general poor,
Poor Water Chemistry,
meaning like your pH could be high,
your Alkalinity could be high
and your pH and Alkalinity not balanced.
You could have high Calcium,
you could have high Cyanuric acid or pool stabilizer
or chlorine stabilizer or CYA
goes by many names,
but you could have high versions of this
or even low versions of this.
And this is different from sanitizer
because even high pH, alkalinity, calcium
and cyanuric Acid can cause cloudy water.
Finally, it'd be algae
could be something actually in your pool
that's causing the water to be cloudy,
and algae is not always green.
It could be dead algae
and dead algae can make your pool cloudy.
So how do we clear it?
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So how do we clear it?
First thing you could do,
skim your pool, brush your pool, vacuum your pool.
General pool cleaning is always a good idea,
you could Shock the pool
that'll add the sanitizer
that could fix your water chemistry.
It could kill algae,
if that's what's doing it to your pool,
you want to make sure that the pH
and alkalinity are balanced,
calcium hardness is in the right level.
If you're using cyanuric acid or pool stabilizer,
you want to make sure that's in the right area to,
you can also,
you know, if it's not your filter system,
and you've already kind of determined that
and the filter system is running pretty good.
Run that filter system 24-7,
because that's going to help clear the water.
I mentioned before using the bottom drains again,
if you have an Inground pool,
you know, actually,
you know getting water from the bottom of your pool
will help clear your water.
Okay, those are all the things you can do
with really no aid whatsoever.
And I recommend doing all of those things
if your waters cloudy.
But if you want to speed up the process a bit,
there are two things you can do.
There are two chemicals you can add.
One is a Water Clarifier.
And this is what I recommend
because what a Water Clarifier does is,
it takes all the little particles in your pool
that kinda overall make your pool cloudy.
And all these little particles are really, really tiny
and your filter may have a hard time picking them up.
So what a clarifier does
is bind a few of those particles together
and clumps them so that they're a little bit bigger,
so that your filter can actually have a better chance
of picking up those bigger clumps.
Now this is great,
but it requires your filter system to do its job.
So it needs to be in tip top shape.
Worst case scenario,
none of these things are working for you,
you can use a chemical called Floc,
which is short for Flocculent.
Basically, this does something similar to clarifier
where it clumps things together,
but it sinks everything to the bottom of the pool.
So imagine your entire cloudy pool
and it gets all that cloud that's in your water
is all of a sudden going to be at the very bottom.
So you're going to see this like thick, thick, white cloud
at the bottom of your pool.
And this is great,
because hey, technically most of the water is clear,
but then you have to get that cloudy water out of your pool.
And this is why I recommend using a Clarifier over a Floc
first, because you're gonna
actually have to set up your manual vacuum cleaner
and slowly vacuum that thick cloudy water
out of your pool,
not through your filter system,
because it's going to be so cloudy
that your filter systems not gonna be powerful
enough to clear it.
And you're just going to blow that cloud
directly back into your pool,
which is going to defeat the purpose.
As soon as you move your vacuum through it,
you're gonna see it puff up
and you're gonna have to be really slow
with the vacuum cleaner,
and you're gonna want that water directly out of your pool.
So those are all the things that can cause cloudy water
and those are all the things that you can do to clear.
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