How to Clean a Green Swimming Pool

Has your pool turned green? There are ways to take on a green swimming pool. Turning your pool from green back to crystal blue will take some time. With a little patients and work your green swimming pool will be ready to swim in again. Below is a method that several professionals are currently using and our recommended way to clean a green swimming pool. Please follow the following steps and again be patient, your pool will be blue again.

1. Remove Large Debris - Using a Aluminum Leaf Rake along with a Swimming Pool Telescopic Pole remove the larger debris found floating around your swimming pool. The large debris needs to be taken out first to ensure that you will not clog your pool cleaner, skimmer, main drain, filter, or piping.
2. Balance your green swimming pool pH level - This is the first chemical that needs to be added to a green swimming pool. You can use a ph Increaser and pH Reducer. pH is the first and most important step to proper care and ensuring your chemicals are most effective.
3. Shock your green swimming pool - Using Pool Shock will kill off bacteria and algae that is still in your green swimming pool. Most likely if your pool is a deep green you will need to add several bags of pool shock over a period of days. You will never over shock your green swimming pool. The more you add the quicker it will clear. This step will start to clear up your swimming pool.
4. Algaecide - This step is optional, but you may want to add some algaecide.
5. Run Pump and Filter for 24 hours - Running your filter will help clear out the remaining growth in your swimming pool. Due to the fact that your pool will be running 24 hours and the pool is not yet clear your filter will become clogged. To ensure this does not happened you will need to backwash your sand and d.e. filters at least 3 times a day. The more you backwash your filter the faster your pool will clear up. If you followed these steps and your swimming pool is still not clear after 4-5 days it may be time to replace your swimming pool filter.
6. Remove remaining debris - Using a leaf rake, leaf skimmer, automatic pool cleaner, and or pool buster max remove the remaining debris found in your swimming pool. At this point it may be wise to get a professional out to help make sure it is cleaned properly.

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