"John Grabowski" wrote in
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"MiamiCuse" wrote in message
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After nine months of construction during such time I completely
ignored the pool, I need to now get it back in shape.

During demolition, saw dust, gutter leaves, nails and other small
debris, fell into the pool, algae build up is so bad now that it's
probably a thick slimmy layer all around the pool bottom and
wall...It's literally the green swamp.

I did have the pool pump run 4 hours a day for the last 9 months but
that did not do anything. I was adding chemicals and chlorine but I
gave up after a few weeks.

I know if I add shock or liquid chlorine to the pool, it will turn
the water back to clear...but the sediments and the algae needs to be
dealt with.

I started off by using a brsh with a long handle to scrub the algae
off the pool wall, the nylon brush was no good, did not clean well, I
had to switch to one with metal wires. That worked for a bit, then
the water is so murky from the brushing I cannot see where I am
brushing. I also tried to vaccuum hose attached to the skimmer and
same problem, vaccuum for a bit and then too murky to see.

Do professional pool companies have big suction trucks to vaccuum the
junk off and brush the pool surface real quick or this is a manual
and tedious task no matter how you do it?


*I was working on a job last week that was adjacent to a pool in a
townhouse development. When I started the pool water was a dark
brownish green and had a bunch of leaves and other stuff in it. The
pool and surrounding deck had work done to it over the winter so the
pool cover was not put in place. There was only about five feet of
water in the pool. A crew of four guys came in on one day. They had
two 3" muck pumps, a power washer and miscellaneous brushes. They
sucked all of the water out. Scooped out all of the leaves and crud
and power washed everything. The only thing left was some light
staining from the leaves. I presume that that will be taken care of
on another day.


Thoughts of Bill Murray in Caddyshack with that Baby Ruth bar come to
mind :-)