Why is the swimming pool green
What Causes Green Pools & Algae Growth in Swimming Pools? We Can Help Explain - Chlorine King
- Lauren King Here I am working this is
day two of a green pool that I'm working
on you can see is looking pretty good
there's still some work ahead left but I
just want to talk about what could cause
green pools what allows algae to grow
and there's really three main factors
the first one is bad chemistry for
chemistry's off out it's going to grow
the second factor is bad circulation if
you're not keeping your pool circulating
algae will for sure grow and then the
last factor is a combination of the two
if you have bad circulation and bad
chemistry guess what you're gonna have
algae in your pool so let's talk about
each of them a little more specifically
bad chemistry now there's a couple
parameters you really need to pay
attention to when trying to eliminate
algae growth or a green pool and the
first one is your chlorine or sanitation
level you want to make sure your
chlorines high enough because chlorine
is what kills the algae if you have a
salt system you want to make sure that
your salt system is producing chlorine
next thing you want to look at your pH
your pH is too high the chlorine is less
effective in fact I believe it's 50%
less effective at 7.8 than it is at 7.2
so you want to make sure that your pH is
good another chemical you want to look
at your stabilizer level is your
stabilizers are too high because your
stabilizer being too high will not allow
the chlorine to work as effectively I
like to call it liquid handcuffs when
your stabilizers too high and if it's
too low then the sun's gonna burn it out
of the pool very quickly you're not
gonna have any residual sanitation in
your pool and now she's gonna grow and
if those are all in check then you need
to start looking at things like your
phosphate levels possibly nitrates and
things like that to make sure that you
know you're not having things introduced
in the water that's not allowing the
main chemicals or properly now it's took
you take a look at number two bad
circulation is your pool runner running
long enough is your filter clean those
are two main things you need to look at
when you're looking at your circulation
if you're not really getting a lot of
you're out of your returns maybe your
pumps going bad maybe your filters dirty
maybe your impellers clogged but either
way you need to figure out how to get
your pool circulating because the
circulation is what moves the chlorine
around in the water to kill the algae
then you need to think about your run
time now old school train of thought is
for every hour or every 10 degrees it is
hot outside you run that pump for an
hour so if it's 90 degrees outside
you need to run at least nine hours I
generally tell my clients in the
wintertime six to eight hours and then
in the summertime when people are using
it more frequently and stuff like that
it's hotter eight or ten to 12 hours so
those are some circulation issues that
you can have that will cause algae to
grow and then the last is just a
combination of the two you need to
really have everything ironed out make
sure there's nothing holding the
circulation or the chemicals back from
allowing the pool to stay clean and
clear so I'm gonna go ahead and get back
to this green pool and get it turned
around and I hope that video helped you
guys and stay tuned for more videos like
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soon have a great weekend everyone
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