Dkny888
Help and let me preface that I know very little about pools and pool filtration but learning quickly.We live in Seminyak near Biku and my pool guy seems to turn my pool dark green once or twice a week. I'm still trying to figure out if it's the chemical ratios, tree sap/leaves, fungus in pool, rain dilution...or the spirit he has mentioned which our staff promptly attended to? It's really starting to annoy me as the greening seems to coincide with the one day in the week I'm interested in swimming! :cat:The pool is not huge, medium size. Has a standard filter which I run around the clock.Does anyone know of any good pool technicians? in Seminyak area? Any ideas on what might be failing in my pool filter? I've been reading about UV filter attachments, any idea if I can get this here?I'm gonna head over to the pool store I see on Sunset but I thought I'd ask first :)Thanks for any answers...
ronb
Part of the wet-season blues (or should that be greens). Generally, the advice is to watch the pH carefully, if it goes too acid, algae are more likely. Also keep the chlorine at recommended levels. But it if goes green (then sometimes brown) PAC (poly aluminium chlorate) is the chemical you need - a fine pale yellow powder. It flocculates the stuff - so you leave the pump off, the algae clumps and falls to the bottom, then you vacuum it out discarding that water rather than recirculating. PAC is not very expensive.
Markit
Had the same problem at the beginning and got some great advice from another expat. Every day after you vacuum the pool you need to backwash the filter just for a few minutes to get rid of any built up algae that is in the filter itself. Oh and make sure the algae is well cleaned off the high water level in the pool.Follow Ron's advice about the chemicals too. You should not need to run the filter more than 8 to 10 hours a day and I would advise you don't start the pumps until after 8 to 9 and make a break around lunch time. This isn't because the pumps get tired but because of the voltage usage here on the island sends some ferocious voltage spikes down the lines at those times of peak usage. They will blow your pumps away and they don't have a guarantee for sure.
no.idea
I would guess that the chorine level is not high enough. In this weather with the intense heat and the rain, the chlorine is leeched out quickly.If you are using one of the small test kits, keep the chlorine higher than what is considered ideal on their chart. I have 8 pools and every one of them needs different chemical control depending on the water source, overhanging trees and rainfall.
Markit
Hell, Ron with eight pools you could pop round and fix theirs and it wouldn't even make much of a dent in your day. Of course with in now being about an 8 hour trip from Sanur to Seminyuk you might have to stay the night.
dontworryaboutit
Help and let me preface that I know very little about pools and pool filtration but learning quickly.We live in Seminyak near Biku and my pool guy seems to turn my pool dark green once or twice a week. I'm still trying to figure out if it's the chemical ratios, tree sap/leaves, fungus in pool, rain dilution...or the spirit he has mentioned which our staff promptly attended to? It's really starting to annoy me as the greening seems to coincide with the one day in the week I'm interested in swimming! :cat:The pool is not huge, medium size. Has a standard filter which I run around the clock.Does anyone know of any good pool technicians? in Seminyak area? Any ideas on what might be failing in my pool filter? I've been reading about UV filter attachments, any idea if I can get this here?I'm gonna head over to the pool store I see on Sunset but I thought I'd ask first :)Thanks for any answers...[/QUOTE]I love the smell of chlorine in the morning.Personally I think people overcomplicate pool maintenance. All I use is chlorine (the little granule form) and hcl. I keep the chlorine level a bit above the recommended on a crappy test kit and up the ph every once in a while with the hcl. If we have 5 days of solid rain for example I shock it with a 10X usual chlorine once off treatment, leave the filter on for 12 hours then drop it back to normal. Pool is crystal clear always...cheap and easy.
ronb
I love the smell of chlorine in the morning.................. and up the ph every once in a while with the hcl. ...........[/QUOTE]Well I apologize if I am being too pedantic, but adding HCl will lower the pH, not raise it.
dontworryaboutit
You are right of course, my bad. Keeping the chlorine elevated RAISES the PH so you need the HCL to lower it not up it....hopefully the op would be cluey enough to figure that out tho eh? The old 'my eyes are a bit stingy' test is usually a good sign the ph needs adjusting.
Markit
[I]"I love the smell of chlorine in the morning."[/I]The only time you should be able to smell chlorine in the pool is when it's been pissed in...:frog: or you have way too much in there.
dontworryaboutit
It was a joke. Chlorine...Napalm..Apocolyps.....oh never mind. :uncomfortableness:
Markit
So was mine...:0)
