Why is the swimming pool green
How to fix a green swimming pool
I'm here again with my 15 by 42-inch
summer escapes pool and as you can see
we no longer have crystal clear water we
have nice green water so I've neglected
the pool for over a week no chemicals
not running the pump like I should I had
it on a 2 hour timer but you're not
putting chemicals in it it's really not
going to be good in the end we've had a
lot of rain and we've just not been out
here much so if you get this green nasty
water it's ok you can fix it so this
pool holds almost 5,000 gallons of water
so what you're going to need you always
want to double your shock so here we
have the I just picked this up at
Walmart it comes in two one-pound
bottles here so this treats up to 10,000
gallons so all we'll need is one of
these and I also went ahead and added a
chlorine tablet to this one here to our
sand filter so now that we've added the
chlorine we're going to add the shock
into the little skimmer here and we're
going to let the pump run for 8 hours
and then we will have crystal-clear
water if you'll check back on another
video I'm not sure how to put them
together
if you'll just check back in a few days
I'll have another video of the outcome
but it will I've done this many times
and it will clear your pull right up so
double your shock run your pump for 8
hours
make sure chlorine is in there if your
shock says that it has the algae killing
in it you don't need any algae killer
it'll take care of it you might have
some leftover in the bottom of your pool
if you have a vacuum you should be able
to vacuum most of that out or just
stirring it up and running your pump it
will become clear enough in a day or two
the stuff that's on the bottom I mean it
will your your pool will clear back up
within 8 hours you'll have crystal-clear
water again
if you have any questions feel free to
ask don't drain your poll if you have
green water you can fix it like I said
if you have any questions please feel
free to ask and I'm going to show you
now before we go ad in the shop to the
skimmer just in case you were curious on
that so I'm going to switch my pump over
to run for 8 hours I'm going to turn it
on chemical right into the skimmer make
sure you don't have any cool floats and
things like that floating around in the
pool I'm sure some people do this
differently and that's okay but it works
for us that's all you got to do you'll
see it running through get the chlorine
tablet in there like I said run your
pump for about 8 hours and you'll have
crystal-clear water again now if you do
not have a sand filter and you have the
paper cartridge car filters it may not
work as well you may have to keep
rinsing your filters but eventually
you'll get there I would suggest in
upgrading to the sand filter it's really
been wonderful thank you
