Pool Guys

Well Chris and I are becoming quite the pool experts. Not by choice mind you but because our pool seems to have chronic green syndrome. I think so far since we've moved in our pool has been green at least as much as it hasn't and lately when it's not green it's cloudy.

I have been into Paddock Pools so often that the whole staff knows me. They have had me try everything they know to get my pool back in shape and we've not had any luck so we decided to change the sand in the filter. Maybe that would help. Chris and I decided to do it ourselves, again not by choice but because it costs about $500 to have someone come and do it for you. So Saturday night at the end of July we got started.

First we had to drain most of the water out. After taking the filter apart and starting the draining process both Chris and I went to do other chores around the yard. What caught our attention was water spewing out of the filter pipes all over the yard. We had forgotten to turn the filter off so when the timer came on so did the water. Everywhere!! It also filled the tank back up so we had to start the draining process over again. Several hours later there was still a lot of water so we decided to get it out with the shop vac. That done we started on the sand. Even with the shop vac it took forever. I think I finally called it a night a little after mid-night and Chris came in around 1:00am and we still weren't finished. We still had to put the sand back in but we had to go back to the store the next morning for pea gravel (there should have been some in the filter and there wasn't). After missing church the next morning we were finally able get the gravel and sand back in and get the filter running.



Next came the chemicals. While Chris went to play Quidditch I stayed and tried to turn our pool back to something resembling clean water instead of the swamp look it currently had. The guys at the pool store gave me something called Green to Clean and it was amazing. I put it in and instantly started working. Within an hour our pool looked more like a pool and less like Kermit the Frog's home. Maybe there was hope after all.

Well it did stay blue for quite awhile but it never lost it's cloudy look. Unfortunately this story doesn't have a happy ending though. This morning I woke up and low and behold it's green again. Not as bad as before but definitely green. So back to the pool store I go. Hopefully this time we'll get it back before Kermit moves in.