/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1694185
you fucked up
drain it, scrub it and then refill it

Who else Diatomaceous Earth Master Race here

>>1694185
Pools are a maintenance trap do not build.

>>1694190
My nigga

>>1694192
not empty quoting

>>1694185

>6 months no maintenance
>expects pool to be ready to jump in when returning home

>>1694185
why do Americans all have pools when most of them are too fat to swim?

>>1694265
Buoyancy is a thing

>>1694185
ph balancer

natural pond pools are a thing now
yes it would be snakes and forgs on them when you arrive after 6 months but the water would be cristal clear

>>1694265
RENT
FREE

>>1694265
if you weren't retarded you would know that it's actually easier to swim when you have more bodyfat. everyone who survived the sinking of the titanic was considered overweight for their time or a young child

>>1694265
But it's the blacks that cant swim anon. And they dont got money for dem pools. Dats white people sheeet

>>1694185
Add acid until 7.2 pH. Aerate by pointing jet to surface to make water bubbly. Repeat until alkalinity is good.

>>1694185
You need to shock your pool with liquid chlorine and add an algecide. Salt water pools don't create salt water, they just trickle a steady amount of chlorine into pool over time. Yours is obv out of whack if it looks like that. Shock, algecide, clean filter. Repeat until clear. Your local pool shop could have told you all this... where do you live?

>>1694265
>too fat to swim
europeans, folks.

>>1694481
gotta get the ph good first otherwise he's wasting chemicals

Solar pumps and sand filters should be a thing.

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>>1694493
Bobbing around like a fucking cork doesn't really count as swimming, my friend.

>>1694305
>>1694305
>but the water would be cristal clear

brother that's a total shill they DO NOT stay anywhere close to clear, and they require a fuckload higher startup costs and fuckload more maintenance than normie pools. cant find it but i remember reading a boomer engineer's blog complaining about how much effort it took

>>1694265
Suburban housewives need a pretext for the 20 year old Hispanic "maintenance guys" they keep inviting over

>>1694190
I’ve found the recommendations for how much de to put in the filter is way to much and just get dirty faster, I use about half of what it says to per Swift and it is perfect
>>1694185
Op SLAM it, look it up go buy some cheap liquid chlorine Poot like 8-12 gallons in bring oh to 7.2 or within mistral and sweep everyday. It’s much easier to untuck a Pool with chlorine so until it’s clean just turn off your salt generator so you aren’t wasting money

>>1694185
Op take it from someone who works in the pool field: if the situation is as in the picture just drain everything, clean, refill and do a shock treatment with chlorine.
It's easier and probably cheaper than keeping on adding acid and other chemical products.

>>1694804
>20 year old Hispanic "maintenance guys" they keep inviting over
I have never seen a Mexican pool man and I live in southern California. PH and chemicals are magic to them. They're all white former surfer dudes.

>>1694916
S FL reporting in. All young to middle age white dudes here servicing pools.

>>1694185
Make it into a pond

>>1694603
Good site