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Shock dissipates pretty quickly, basically getting used up by the algae. The best way to clear it though is to vac to waste and then shock at night. Less chemical and quicker turnaround.
Weather absolutely can cause it. Thundery warm wet is the worst for getting pea soup, but any wet weather where its warmer (as it has been) that's carrying algae spores can do it.
I agree. It's the highlight of my summer. Such a sense of accomplishment when you turn that water from "Creature from the Black Lagoon" to crystal clear!😅
Some places have LAWS about how much water you can drain/refill at one time. It's stupid, could be restricting the use of water on golf courses instead
You drain it to save a ton of money AND do it faster AND not have to dump loads and loads of chemicals for a week or two to clarify. Remember kids, water is naturally recyclable.
@@patrickhorne4348 : it takes two - three days to do a drain and clean at a cost of $1500 + : Or just add some chlorine which the pool needs anyway and is clear in the next day or so. Ps, chlorine costs less than $10 per/lb
@@thevillage38If you throw away that water without the chemicals, it is much less polluting than if you discard it after having added all those products. Sorry if I don't express myself well, English is not my native language.
This is what happens when you do not do pool maintenance correctly. The area might have had high heat and there could had been a cover on the pool. It can take a number of days to fix the problem. The chlorine and ph were way off for a long time. The pool has algae and high phosphorus and could have high copper levels too. It is not safe to swim. First thing he needs to do is to clean the pool filters. Add the needed chemicals and when the water is clear and the readings are balanced he needs to clean the filters again. My pool has the large Pentair cylinder filters. Anytime I bring down my phosphates I have to clean the 4 filters twice. I always check my levels twice during the week.
it might have higher copper levels after he poured in the copper algicide, but it’s not green because it has copper. Copper is an algicide. Now don’t get me wrong. The Copper can stay in the pool Green but it’s more likely a possibly if phosphates from fertilizer and obviously low chlorine.
The water became like that because the owners neglected it, nor did they test their water daily. I’ve owned an inground for years. Experienced all sorts of weather conditions and not once has my pool looked like this other than initial opening for the season.
Weather can absolutely do it. Torrential rain during a thunderstorm - ie humid, muggy - can give you pea soup overnight. It just takes the right (or wrong depending on your viewpoint) conditions.
@@ChrisAndCats If your pool chemistry is balanced, no, it will take several days of lousy weather to create that pea soup. I know neglect when I see it.
Terrible pool tech. Complete overkill with the “pinch a penny” chemicals. First of all it depends if it’s a salt pool or chlorine pool. If it was a salt pool you would need to test your salt lvl and make sure your cell was properly working. After that you’re going to check if the pools properly filtering (timer box, pump etc) once that’s been completed you do a chems check. Half ass techs use stick test. Any real tech does his own drop test. In most of these cases a pool will turn green from a lack of chlorine, filtration, or introduction of phosphates. If the equipment is good and your chemicals are within in normal range bust out the phosphate remover. Toss a cap full in and look for “white clouds”. Once the cause of the issue is determined you can treat the pool. 2-3 jugs of chlorine (2.5 gallons each) a couple caps of yellow out, full brushing of pool, clean the filter and set the timer to run 6-10 hours after you’ve completed. Return the next day and clean the filter again and maybe another brush/riptide vac. Of course you would net and clean the baskets out as well. This will solve 99% of your issues. Obviously other factors come into play. Water loss due to leaks, bad equipment, and stupid customers. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled my hair out trying to figure out an issue. Only to find the customer is adding his own chemicals or turning the timer box off when I leave. I’ve had customers push planters into pools after servicing them to cause issues. People are nuts….
I think he did a great job. Once a pool gets that far gone, due to neglect, it takes a while to get the water balanced out. The amount of chemicals required depends on the size (gallons) of the pool.
Y'all people who are complaining about the chemicals don't realize that it is completely safe lol. If you don't like chemicals, then don't drink water. They have sodium and magnesium in it. Water it self is literally an chemical
That is expensive. The chemicals cause all the green stuff to die and sink to the bottom... then you vacuum it up a have fresh, clean, clear water. Have to test pH level daily to maintain.
People who walk around with a device in their pocket made with rare earth minerals and that emits low levels of radiation are concerned about chlorine in a swimming pool? Wow
For everyone, go to your local pool supply and they can show you and teach you. Only about 4 chems you need to keep on hand. Google or U-Tube can teach also...really not that hard to do. If you have teens, let them learn to maintain and have the responibility if they use it. They could get good enough they can get job opening pools for neighbors! They can be a pool boy or girl.
The waterway is not always fit for swimming due to polution or maybe they just prefer it heated like a bath. This is also a tiny pool like 3m wide and a bit over 6m long. More like a royal bathtub imho.
First visit I usually add chlorine, algaecide and either a good clarifier or floc. And I’ll do that all the same time. And always clean filters and baskets before adding chemicals.
The algae is caused by heavy rains whiping out the chlorine, he's adding granulated shock which is perfectly acceptable. It takes awhile to get the chlorine levels back to normal. To all those that say its a toxic pit shoukdnt go in any pool public or private. There's always a chemical balance in a pool. Here's some interesting tips pee takes 45 minutes to dissipate in a neutrally controlled pool, diarrhea takes 7 days to be completely cleaned. If you smell chlorine or the pool area smells like chlorine dont go in, it means its heavily chlorinated which alot of public pools do to handle the bather load. Happy swimming!
I did this many times, once came in after a 2 week holiday to find the pool like this again, usually takes longer with an auto doser. We had left only a little to save money and figuring it wasn't enough went to hyperdose the pool. It instantly turned clear, turned out someone had broken in and swam in the pool with their athlete's foot or something. Ended up with 12ppm chlorine and had to get some blocker
EEEEW EEEEEEW EEEW EEEWEEEWEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! I'm sorry, but the thought of a strangers feet being SOOO funky they gooped up your pool kinda makes me sick! in a impressive way....
I tried having my own pool 2 summers ago... 😕 Trying to figure out the chemicals, keeping it at a decent temperature, etc... Sooo much work. I wish I knew more of what I was doing!
This was done correctly, it’s not that bad actually most of the green is from the dirt and algae on the bottom and sides. Shock it, vacuum it, balance the chemicals not hard
Where we are in Australia they are very popular. Just remember, they are still a chlorine pool it’s just the unit makes its own from salt that’s in the water.
Pool will be closed till chemicals are balanced and safe for bathers, I owned and operated pool service for 15 yrs in south fl. I cleaned up after countless storms and Hurricanes ! It was fun till it wasnt...
My pool looks like this, but greener. Unfortunately, in El Paso, Texas, pool service providers are untrustworthy, bullshitters who can’t get the job done. I’ll be cleaning the pool myself next week
Keep the chem. levels right, the filter clean and the pool brushed, and chances of this are a lot less. Mine never looked like this except for once. A homeowners pool was next to a golf course green and they fertilized the green. Voila, algae.
In Texas we call that mustard algae super shock and clean if you ever let the chlorine level get low again it will be right back. It's in the drain and fill lines also
I think I would have put more chlorine in that pool .Atleast six bottles of liquid or ten pounds of powder ( only if pool is gunite ) .Powder chlorine will pit the liner and cause fading ! I would run the filter on clean cycle for twenty four hours then backwash! If still green add two more bottles ,run then do the same process.Then you can add clarifier then blue dye!
Yikes. I dont think im going to swim in pools anymore. My eyes are burning just seeing this. Brings baac memories of friends pools that had that floating chlorine thingy and it burned if it got too close. We used to throw it at each other.
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Nothing like swimming in a chemical bath.
My thoughts exactly
Exactly my thoughts 😮
My thoughts exactly.👍
Yep
Wow didnt change the water ....just a chemical bath.
Jumps in water. Skin peels off. Dies.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂 the best!
Bullshit. They Always Check the ph after being done
Shock dissipates pretty quickly, basically getting used up by the algae. The best way to clear it though is to vac to waste and then shock at night. Less chemical and quicker turnaround.
😂😂
Pools are amazing when someone else has one. Like boats. And airplanes.
And horses. And ski boats.
And home gyms n' tennis courts.....
And children
And husbands. Just kidding 😂 Mine is great😂
Weather didn’t cause this. They didn’t do simple maintenance (Cl, pH, & filter) and/or were away for long time.
Yep.
Weather absolutely can cause it. Thundery warm wet is the worst for getting pea soup, but any wet weather where its warmer (as it has been) that's carrying algae spores can do it.
Our chlorinator failed and this happened to us. New chlorinator and hey presto… perfect water again.
Holiday house. Empty 8 to 10 months a year...
Weather can and does do this.
Anyone else think the grassy area to the side was another green pool?? No?? No one?? Just me?? Ah... ok... 🫣🤭
I did
Yes had to watch twice
I did 😂
You mean it's not another pool?
Hahahahaha 🫣. I thought it was a duplex with the same problem 😂
I used to love shocking and balancing my pool. It's very satisfying to get the water sparkling clear and perfectly ph balanced.
Me, too.
Plus, I knew what was in my pool.
Just use salt water sample
Used to? Explain please
@@tsrmmercy836 I moved and no longer live in a house with a pool.
I agree. It's the highlight of my summer. Such a sense of accomplishment when you turn that water from "Creature from the Black Lagoon" to crystal clear!😅
I’d rather drain and start over fresh 😂😂😂😂👀
Some clients do. Some don’t
Some places have LAWS about how much water you can drain/refill at one time. It's stupid, could be restricting the use of water on golf courses instead
Draining a pool can make it pop out of the ground. Newly added water will still need to be balanced.
No need for that. Doesn't take that long to clear it up. A few days. Easier when the service is correct.
@@gingerhunny"Pop out of the ground?" WTF are you talking about?
Chemical soup
Our favourite
@@Prometheus669 Only people that wish they had money say that.
@@Prometheus669you mean f work?
@Prometheus669 😂 cry harder, jeslous angry karen 😂
@@Prometheus669 ok basement boy, I'm going to go have another swim in my pool just for you 🏊♂️
I could watch these before and afters all day. So satisfying 😮
Thank you for watching ours 🙏
Drain the pool. Clean the cement. Refill and add the chemicals needed to help keep it clean.
Waste all that water for nothing?
Those are the chemicals to keep it clean ( also to get it clear) without draining
You drain it to save a ton of money AND do it faster AND not have to dump loads and loads of chemicals for a week or two to clarify. Remember kids, water is naturally recyclable.
@@patrickhorne4348 : it takes two - three days to do a drain and clean at a cost of $1500 + : Or just add some chlorine which the pool needs anyway and is clear in the next day or so. Ps, chlorine costs less than $10 per/lb
@@thevillage38If you throw away that water without the chemicals, it is much less polluting than if you discard it after having added all those products.
Sorry if I don't express myself well, English is not my native language.
This is what happens when you do not do pool maintenance correctly. The area might have had high heat and there could had been a cover on the pool. It can take a number of days to fix the problem. The chlorine and ph were way off for a long time. The pool has algae and high phosphorus and could have high copper levels too. It is not safe to swim. First thing he needs to do is to clean the pool filters. Add the needed chemicals and when the water is clear and the readings are balanced he needs to clean the filters again. My pool has the large Pentair cylinder filters. Anytime I bring down my phosphates I have to clean the 4 filters twice. I always check my levels twice during the week.
it might have higher copper levels after he poured in the copper algicide, but it’s not green because it has copper. Copper is an algicide. Now don’t get me wrong. The Copper can stay in the pool Green but it’s more likely a possibly if phosphates from fertilizer and obviously low chlorine.
The water became like that because the owners neglected it, nor did they test their water daily. I’ve owned an inground for years. Experienced all sorts of weather conditions and not once has my pool looked like this other than initial opening for the season.
Weather can absolutely do it. Torrential rain during a thunderstorm - ie humid, muggy - can give you pea soup overnight. It just takes the right (or wrong depending on your viewpoint) conditions.
Your correct. was definitely neglected.
@@ChrisAndCats If your pool chemistry is balanced, no, it will take several days of lousy weather to create that pea soup. I know neglect when I see it.
@mermaidtails4391 I've seen it overnight with the pool in balance. I've been around or in the pool trade for 48 odd years.
@@schaferspoolservice not necessarily.
Definitely should have hired this guy for the 2016 Rio Olympics, would have sorted out that diving pool in next to no time😊
ya that was gross.
It's such a pretty color green, though!
Terrible pool tech. Complete overkill with the “pinch a penny” chemicals. First of all it depends if it’s a salt pool or chlorine pool. If it was a salt pool you would need to test your salt lvl and make sure your cell was properly working. After that you’re going to check if the pools properly filtering (timer box, pump etc) once that’s been completed you do a chems check. Half ass techs use stick test. Any real tech does his own drop test. In most of these cases a pool will turn green from a lack of chlorine, filtration, or introduction of phosphates. If the equipment is good and your chemicals are within in normal range bust out the phosphate remover. Toss a cap full in and look for “white clouds”. Once the cause of the issue is determined you can treat the pool. 2-3 jugs of chlorine (2.5 gallons each) a couple caps of yellow out, full brushing of pool, clean the filter and set the timer to run 6-10 hours after you’ve completed. Return the next day and clean the filter again and maybe another brush/riptide vac. Of course you would net and clean the baskets out as well. This will solve 99% of your issues. Obviously other factors come into play. Water loss due to leaks, bad equipment, and stupid customers. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled my hair out trying to figure out an issue. Only to find the customer is adding his own chemicals or turning the timer box off when I leave. I’ve had customers push planters into pools after servicing them to cause issues. People are nuts….
What’s algaeside? Or do you mean algaecide?
@@PatThePoolBoyPrat
@@PatThePoolBoy ya weird autocorrect.
I think he did a great job. Once a pool gets that far gone, due to neglect, it takes a while to get the water balanced out. The amount of chemicals required depends on the size (gallons) of the pool.
😂 he did everything you said
I can feel my skin burning 🔥 after a quick swim! So good for eye 👁️, have you seeing red in no time 💀
I feel for the passer-by animals who think oh look drinking water 💦 ew
@@silverwolf6516yea kid. The passer by animas. In a fenced in back yard. 😂 Oh yeah birds? Oh the ocean is right there 😂
Y'all people who are complaining about the chemicals don't realize that it is completely safe lol. If you don't like chemicals, then don't drink water. They have sodium and magnesium in it. Water it self is literally an chemical
It's amazing how life takes over everything including the pool and you have to sanitize it every so often
Nice job dude. Is it safe to swim?
Great ad for changing to a natural pool without chemicals..
Gotta love all of the arm chair experts telling the pool man about his own job
Some of us " armchair experts" have actually been looking after our own pools since before you or this guy were born ! You sweet naive child 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would get that green water drained first before anything else
Some clients what to drain it others don’t.
@@PatThePoolBoywould you happen to know🤔the cost to have a company come in and fill the pool with fresh new water?
@@caditech16like.. with your water hose?
@@caditech16You just turn on the hose, and wait 2 or 3 days for it to fill.
That is expensive. The chemicals cause all the green stuff to die and sink to the bottom... then you vacuum it up a have fresh, clean, clear water.
Have to test pH level daily to maintain.
If I was a gazillionaire I'd still do that kind of work myself
Cleaning a pool is SO satisfying!
Thank you 🙏
People who walk around with a device in their pocket made with rare earth minerals and that emits low levels of radiation are concerned about chlorine in a swimming pool? Wow
😂😂😂😂
Never mind the chemical soup most all of us eat and drink. I dare y'all to read the labels on food packages or sodas!
This is the bath tub of the Incredible Hulk😂!
😂😂
Wow and with a single swipe!
For everyone, go to your local pool supply and they can show you and teach you.
Only about 4 chems you need to keep on hand.
Google or U-Tube can teach also...really not that hard to do. If you have teens, let them learn to maintain and have the responibility if they use it. They could get good enough they can get job opening pools for neighbors!
They can be a pool boy or girl.
“A regular customer” gets it cleaned regularly
Can also have a regular customer that visits our retail store
@@PatThePoolBoy So how many months they didn't do any maintenance on that? Like 20? ;)
Now drain the Clorox water into the lake...
Why?
@PatThePoolBoy
Most people don't know the chlorine dissipates as it kills the 'green'. They think is gonna be like swimming in bleach.
Wow, give this man a raise❤❤❤❤
I had a pool guy who only used salt, like table salt. Not enough to taste, but the water sparkled.
Nice !!!! I’d like a salt pool - that chlorine is kind of scary
They have a waterway in there backyard and they choose the bleach bath😂
The waterway is not always fit for swimming due to polution or maybe they just prefer it heated like a bath. This is also a tiny pool like 3m wide and a bit over 6m long. More like a royal bathtub imho.
Pee gets diluted out in the water way .
Diesel fuel boats can be seen running up and down days waterway. Plus it's also definitely the gray water run off for *EVERY* house on that stretch.
The waterway is a shark infested canal.....not safe for swimming in.
All chemicals in the same session? Which chemicals and in what order? Did you clean the filter before or after chemicals?
First visit I usually add chlorine, algaecide and either a good clarifier or floc. And I’ll do that all the same time. And always clean filters and baskets before adding chemicals.
The algae is caused by heavy rains whiping out the chlorine, he's adding granulated shock which is perfectly acceptable. It takes awhile to get the chlorine levels back to normal. To all those that say its a toxic pit shoukdnt go in any pool public or private. There's always a chemical balance in a pool. Here's some interesting tips pee takes 45 minutes to dissipate in a neutrally controlled pool, diarrhea takes 7 days to be completely cleaned. If you smell chlorine or the pool area smells like chlorine dont go in, it means its heavily chlorinated which alot of public pools do to handle the bather load. Happy swimming!
👌
Water like that can be cleaned crystal-clear in about 2 hrs., but it's not advisable to swim in it for a couple of days.
Do any pools that you take over have pool service or the home owners attempt to balance it?
Most of the bad ones have either been flooded or neglected. Not on regular servicing
@PatThePoolBoy do you not check pH before shocking?
Yer full check. Also want to make sure it doesn’t have high metals or phosphate before shocking too
Have a pool and you live right next to the water? I’m just thinking in poor people ways 😂
A shark infested canal is NOT a swimming pool replacement.
1 TEA CUP FOR THE POOL BOY
Wow your home is a dream!!
😂😂 I wish. It’s a customers house. Stunning though
Wow i can see much mire clearky now . Its amazing this stuff really works
Yes it does!
Nice
Thank you 🙏
Satisfying
Thanks
Clarifier and pool shock. There's a lot of work that goes into cleaning a pool
Some are easier than others
Why is this so relaxing to watch
Yuck! Why not drain the pool & then clean it & refill with fresh water. This makes me rethink of ever swimming in someone else's pool.
That be wasteful. What do you think happens to your drinking water? Pretty much the same process to turn poo water into tap water
Agreed 100%
😂😂😂😂
you would have to do that every 10 days.
The transition with the brush was top shelf bruv
Thank you 🙏
I did this many times, once came in after a 2 week holiday to find the pool like this again, usually takes longer with an auto doser. We had left only a little to save money and figuring it wasn't enough went to hyperdose the pool. It instantly turned clear, turned out someone had broken in and swam in the pool with their athlete's foot or something. Ended up with 12ppm chlorine and had to get some blocker
EEEEW EEEEEEW EEEW EEEWEEEWEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! I'm sorry, but the thought of a strangers feet being SOOO funky they gooped up your pool kinda makes me sick! in a impressive way....
@@myssixensen7516 we assumed it was his feet and not another infection. I don't use public pools since doing these courses
You might want a knock on the neighbor's door, looks like their pool needs help also.😊
Looks good. Just don't breathe or get it in your eyes
Just a typicle treatment after wintering ... all outside pools need the same. 24 hours after treatment, the water is safe and clean at the good Ph.
so much product for such a small pool
WOW!!!! GREAT JOB! I would say you job is very rewarding!😃
I tried having my own pool 2 summers ago... 😕 Trying to figure out the chemicals, keeping it at a decent temperature, etc... Sooo much work. I wish I knew more of what I was doing!
You can do it!
I actually love the look of a green pool, it's like swimming in uranium water😂
Great job,I can create the hard work
Getting that time of the year
Wow you did an awesome job! I remember our pool!
Thank you 🤗
Ours turned green after some extra hour weather last year...
I've been thinking about getting a saltwater pool
This was done correctly, it’s not that bad actually most of the green is from the dirt and algae on the bottom and sides.
Shock it, vacuum it, balance the chemicals not hard
👌 vacuum straight to waste if really bad.
This guy has such a beautiful voice
Thank you 🙂
Amazing job 😮
Thank you 👌
Sweet transition sir
Your skin absorbs the rest of the chlorine in that pool :D
I like the green
That looks like some good stuff to swim in on a nice hot Summer's Day
I hope theyre ok during this devastating situation
Remembering how I clean my green pool.
Fixing to open my pool for summer, and I’m ready! 🏊♀️
POOL WAS READY FOR ST. PADDYS DAY
Still cloudier than I thought it was going to be
we no longer use our pool since kids leave the house. it causes only work & costs.
It almost looked like the pool flashed
How do you feel about salt water pools and spas? As an alternative to chlorine. Good or They not worth it?
Where we are in Australia they are very popular. Just remember, they are still a chlorine pool it’s just the unit makes its own from salt that’s in the water.
I’m just scared I’d end up looking like the toxic waste guy in Robocop after a dip in that pool.
Pool will be closed till chemicals are balanced and safe for bathers, I owned and operated pool service for 15 yrs in south fl. I cleaned up after countless storms and Hurricanes ! It was fun till it wasnt...
Someone who knows how to fix pools. Legend 👌
My pool looks like this, but greener. Unfortunately, in El Paso, Texas, pool service providers are untrustworthy, bullshitters who can’t get the job done. I’ll be cleaning the pool myself next week
No good to hear mate. If it’s really bad and you want a quicker result you may want to drain it and start again. But that’s up to you. Good luck 👍
I need a pool, and a pool man
Gostei muito do vídeo 👏
Thank you
Looks much better.
Keep the chem. levels right, the filter clean and the pool brushed, and chances of this are a lot less. Mine never looked like this except for once. A homeowners pool was next to a golf course green and they fertilized the green. Voila, algae.
In Texas we call that mustard algae super shock and clean if you ever let the chlorine level get low again it will be right back. It's in the drain and fill lines also
Amazing!
I think I would have put more chlorine in that pool .Atleast six bottles of liquid or ten pounds of powder ( only if pool is gunite ) .Powder chlorine will pit the liner and cause fading ! I would run the filter on clean cycle for twenty four hours then backwash! If still green add two more bottles ,run then do the same process.Then you can add clarifier then blue dye!
Well that was good . Now all i need is a pool so i can do that cleaning job on my pool some day . May be never.
A regular customer’s pool gets like this?? Geesh!!! I wouldn’t be advertising it!!😂
That's when a saltwater pool comes in handy
“Good soup”
Forgot to show the “backwash” ✌🏻🤧
I have a brother who owns a pool co.
My first job 13 yrs old 😆👍🏻
Yikes. I dont think im going to swim in pools anymore. My eyes are burning just seeing this. Brings baac memories of friends pools that had that floating chlorine thingy and it burned if it got too close. We used to throw it at each other.
The customer and the environment will thank you
Chemicals I’m ya drinking water
Chemicals in ya pool
Chemicals in the chem trails
Such is life 😂❤
Looks about how green my pool was the last time i had it set up.
one sweep and magically.........
Love all the negative comments from people that dont know what they are talking about.
There are some crackers in there 😂👍
I’m betting there’s some
copper sulphate in that mix. That’s what’s usually used to kill algae.
Got to be so good for humans and earth. 😮
It’s definitely on its way there but it could be clearer
100%
That's why I prefer salt water pools.
I had a pool for 32 years never looked like this. The key is PhosFree.. removes the Phosphates that Alge needs to grow.
Our pool was getting like this and last year we stopped using our solar cover and it stopped. We will see this year 🤞