Brown pool
Brown pool
At sometime most will have had to deal with a green pool but what to do with a brown pool ? It's full of sand.
Like the terraces, cars, house .......
Like the terraces, cars, house .......
- fincalospinos
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Re: Brown pool
Its probably sand.Add some floculant, leave 24/48 hours and then hoover, make sure you backwash regularly whilst hoovering.
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Lyric: my pool too ... never seen it like that ever before!!!
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Re: Brown pool
Easier to vac it straight to waste. Probably uses similar quantities of water and you won't be back washing your filter every few minutes.fincalospinos wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:06 am Its probably sand.Add some floculant, leave 24/48 hours and then hoover, make sure you backwash regularly whilst hoovering.
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Bob
Bob
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I always vac to waste
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It's very sticky, this red mud. We have cleaned the patio doors and cars but it is stuck solid to the terrace tiles. Good luck with cleaning your pool. I've had photos from friends of theirs and it looks awful. The dust even got into the kitchen yesterday and covered all the worktops!
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SM has just been out with the dogs, there are a lot of orange houses out there and it doesn't come off the coarse render. Painters are going to be busy!
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More to come ? No point in cleaning up just yet. It is a right royal mess for sure.
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An advantage to having a yellow painted house I'm not washing the floor for now as the cats will bring in muddy paw prints for some time I think as we are struggling to get it off the terraces.
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I am confused. I also have a brown pool but the fine dust is suspended in the water. Obviously I will vacuum to waste but that will not remove the fine dust. The answer is flocculant which will drop it down to the bottom and then vacuum to waste.
BUT, this is where I get confused. Last time I had a problem, I switched everything off and threw some flocculant granules in which seemed to work and then hoovered to waste as I was told it is very bad to get flocculant in the sand filter as it clogs and stays there forever (is that right?).
I was unable to get any flocculant in granular form today and I don't know how to use any other type as it seems from YouTube videos you actually put it in the skimmers and let it circulate but surely that will take it through the filter or does recirculate bypass the filter.
Apologies for my naivety but I have only just realised that there is a setting "recirculate" on the multivalve - I have never used it in my normal maintenance routine.
BUT, this is where I get confused. Last time I had a problem, I switched everything off and threw some flocculant granules in which seemed to work and then hoovered to waste as I was told it is very bad to get flocculant in the sand filter as it clogs and stays there forever (is that right?).
I was unable to get any flocculant in granular form today and I don't know how to use any other type as it seems from YouTube videos you actually put it in the skimmers and let it circulate but surely that will take it through the filter or does recirculate bypass the filter.
Apologies for my naivety but I have only just realised that there is a setting "recirculate" on the multivalve - I have never used it in my normal maintenance routine.
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Re: Brown pool
Just set it to pump to waste and then it doesn't go through the filter.
Sid
Sid
Re: Brown pool
You can buy big bottles of liquid floc, maybe try a specialist pool shop
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I was sold a flocculant gel tablet to put in the pump but it refused to dissolve.
More brown rain on the way apparently anyway.
I've ordered granules so hopefully we'll get there soon
More brown rain on the way apparently anyway.
I've ordered granules so hopefully we'll get there soon
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Re: Brown pool
The blue jelly tablets dissolve slowly over a week or so. They coat the sand to make it more efficient at removing very small particles. With the amount of crud in the water they will clog the filter very quickly. They are great when you just want to get slightly cloudy water clean. They won't work in a filthy pool. Normal Floc liquid poured into the pool will work but you MUST hoover it to waste or it will block the filter.
Sid
Sid
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Cheers Sid, that explains it. This latest dirty rain has really annoyed me as I had just cleaned everything and it was a big job. The pool is still cloudy but I have some flocculant on order. The gel obviously was going to take a lot longer than I thought to dissolve but in any case even if it had worked the latest sandy rain would have messed it up again.
This weather is unusual for March but I suppose we can't complain as coming from Northern Ireland we should be used to it but 10 years here I had forgotten what it's like to have rain continuously.
This weather is unusual for March but I suppose we can't complain as coming from Northern Ireland we should be used to it but 10 years here I had forgotten what it's like to have rain continuously.
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My pool was beginning to floculate nicely, nearly see the bottom, the overnight rain and 115km/hr gusts have put paid to that. Back to square one or probably further as it's really opaque now and I am surrounded by a yellow sky with the Wx Radar showing rain coming my way from Sid's direction.
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not just more stuff in the pool but car covered in it again!
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Does anyone know if we're likely to get more of this or is it safe to clean up again.
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Re: Brown pool
Unlikely after tomorrow. It’s common but not usually this bad.
Sid
Sid
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we had more rain last night and even more calima than last week ... north side of house absolutely covered in it ... other facades not as bad ... but it's everywhere ...
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