- [Narrator] How do I remove pollen from my pool?
And like anyone who has to deal with allergies,
pool owners must take a few extra steps
to fight pollen in their pools.
Especially during those heavier pollen times,
during the spring and summer months,
and there are five ways to remove pollen from your pools.
Check it out.
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Before you begin your cleaning process
you needed to make sure
that you're actually dealing with pollen,
because there are some varieties of algae
that look a lot like pollen,
and even could be sand in your pool that looks like pollen.
So for example, yellow mustard algae
has this light yellowish green look just like pollen,
the difference is where it actually collects in your pool.
Remember pollen will float on the top of your pool,
whereas algae on the other hand
will often stick to the sides
and even appear at the bottom of the pool
and won't be easily filtered
by your pool's filtration system.
If it's floating on the top of your pool
and you notice that some is picked up
by your pool's filtration system,
well then chances are you probably have pool pollen.
So if you have a pollen problem,
then your pool's filtration system
is your best defense against pollen
floating on top of your pool
and here's a thing, the filter system
is going to pick up some of the pollen
and as it picks up pollen you're gonna see
the pressure in your tank, in your filter tank go up,
and your first instinct might be to backwash it
but I would let your filter system build up that pressure.
So if you're running, there's no pollen in your pool,
and let's say you're running
at about 12 pounds of pressure in your tank,
you're gonna look at your pressure gauge,
if that's working and that's fine.
Then you start getting pollen in your pool
and then the pressure starts to go up
maybe it goes up to 20 pounds of pressure,
you're still okay, you wanna let it go
10 pounds over your normal running pressure.
So if it's,
if you're operating normally at 12 pounds per pressure,
when it gets to 22 pounds of pressure,
then you can backwash it.
Now the reason that you have
this 10 pounds of pressure buffer,
is because the more pollen
that's gonna collect in the filter,
that pollen is adding more media,
more filtering power to your filter
which will actually help pick up even smaller particles.
So let the filter system do its job let it collect,
and let that collection of debris and pollen
help to collect more debris and pollen.
Every morning and maybe in the afternoon as well,
you wanna take a skimmer
with a very fine mesh head attached to it
and run it through the water,
pick up any pollen that has collected there overnight,
and you may have to repeat this process
more than once a day during heavy pollen times in your area.
If you're surrounded by bunch of trees,
then you may have a lot of pollen to deal with.
A regular skimmer net probably won't do the trick
you'll need a special attachment
in a very fine mesh skimmer net to trap that pollen.
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Now some pollen in your pool is simply to small
for anything to pick up and will even pass through
your filter system as if it wasn't even there.
So to get rid of this pollen,
add aluminum sulfate to your water
and this will bind the pollen
causing it to clump together and making it easy
for either your pool's filter system
or you to remove it,
and when you're battling pollen
it's a good idea to give the pool a shock
before you go to bed one evening.
This will kill anything that has decided
your pool is a good place to call home
simply because of pollen that is floating around the water.
So the next morning, filter the water
using your filtration system,
you give it another good skim
to get rid of anything left over in the water.
But sometimes a simple skimming won't do the trick,
if the pollen is especially heavy in your area
and you actually may have to vacuum the pool manually,
and I would use this as a last resort as this will cost
both your electric and water bills to go up
as you use more electricity to vacuum
and remove more water during that process
that'll have to be replaced.
That's it.
That's how you get rid of pollen from your pool.
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