Q for saltwater pool owners

[CanadianPaco]

We are seeing a slime build up on our cartridge filters on our salt water pool. Pressure slowly reduces over a few days and we have to use the power hose on the filters to get the slime off. We were told by our pool company to superchlorinate and treat with algicide (and do all the equipment, brush down the walls etc). I see the pressure rising again which means the flow is reducing again!

Any advice?

 

[formill]

I am not sure what exactly your system is but if you are still getting algae is your salt water system truly working and creating chlorine? Test strips or kit show you have chlorine in your pool? Can you turn up the salt water system to work more/create more chlorine every day? Our has a maximum setting of staying on for 12 hours.......our pool needs more so every day I have to reset it so we are having it on for at least 16 hours or more...... We constantly get build up on the actual salt cell the titanium plates --from our water......I have treated the water with stuff that is supposed to prevent that -what we get is like a hard water crust though not slime and it seems to last about 3 weeks before we have to remove it and clean. If you are getting "slime" ....(algae) seems like your pool is not consistently getting the chlorine it needs? I like this site for pool help.. http://www.askalanaquestion.com/pool_navigation_page.htm

Good luck!

 

[dejr_8]

It just sounds like you are not maintaining the chlorine level.

By superchlorinate do you mean you ran your system at 100% for 24 hours or that you shocked your sysytem?

You may want to shock the pool.

 

[HeatherC]

I would post this on the forums board on troublefreepool.com. They are great over there and will help you clear it up and save money doing so.

 

[CanadianPaco]

To superchlorinate, I added 40l of liquid chlorine.

 

[dejr_8]

To superchlorinate, I added 40l of liquid chlorine.

That's good. Are you certain your chlorine generator is producing chlorine? What percent of operation are you using?

Your salt level is correct?

 

[CanadianPaco]

It's set at 40%. I just cehcked the chlorine level and it is at 1ppm.

 

[CanadianPaco]

I would post this on the forums board on troublefreepool.com. They are great over there and will help you clear it up and save money doing so.

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

 

[dejr_8]

It's set at 40%. I just cehcked the chlorine level and it is at 1ppm.

I try to keep my level at 2-3 ppm.

I just went through a period where I was also getting algae in the pool. I did the chlorine shock and then ran my system at 100% for a day and then slowly backed the percent off to now 60% for 10 hours a day.

How is your stabilizer level?