From This.......
.......To This
When we came home from London - we were greeted by millions of new guests - little green algae. Lulu loves her pool - Harry does not look forward to maintaining it. A pool is a whole in the ground where you dump some of your money and all of your spare time :-) But if Lulu loves it - we will always have a pool.
We had a choice of fixing it chemically or physically. I chose the latter.
I turned on the pump and opened the exit value. It formed a river to the pond and in 4 hours - the 19,000 gallons of green water was gone. Then I used my pressure washer to clean the pool. Next I used a shop vacuum to remove the last 100 gallons of green water. Then it took 19 hours by garden hose to refill the pool. The city charges about 15 cents per 100 gallons or about $30.
The water coming in from the garden hose was 75 degrees. The pool will be back over 80 degrees in no time at all. This is the first time we changed the water in 3 years.
From green to clean in 24 hours.
