Please Help!!!! Swamp pool

[PoolDoc]

To add to what WaterMom said . . . a key ingredient to cleaning a swamp is P.O.P.: "Pool Owner Patience"!

There is no way to make cleaning a swamp quick and easy (other than hiring it done!), but lots of people make it SLOWER and HARDER and MORE EXPENSIVE by trying to purchase "Quick and Easy".

To a pool store, a pool owner who has a problem (like you) and who is in a hurry, looks like money on legs. They'll sell you stuff 'to make it easier' and then, when that doesn't make it quick and easy, they'll sell you something else, to make it quick and easy.

Get the kit; test the water; answer Watermom's questions . . . and we'll make it as quick as easy as possible.

If you can't stand to do that, get out your big wallet, and pull out $200 to $500 to hire it cleaned up professionally (prices vary by region, and by just how bad your mess is). That's easy.

Otherwise, take your time, and work methodically.

But do NOT go walking into pool store, wanting to buy "a bottle of Easy, please". They'll sell you something, but it will just end up being "Expensive", not
"Easy".

Also . . . do you have access to Sams Club? They have some pretty good deals on chemicals that may help. You probably won't want to tote the amount of bleach it's likely to take to clean up a 40,000 gallon swamp.

[michelle king]

Ok thanks. I am getting the test kit and I have to replace a part on my pump then I can cut it on. I will reply back with the test results and we can go from there. Thanks so much for your help!

[PoolDoc]

You're welcome.

[michelle king]

By watermom told me to get water test. Results r free chlorine - 0 ppm. I knew that's was gonna be like that cause o have not ran my pool since last year. pH - 7.6. Alkalinity -100 ppm. Calcium hardness 160 ppm. Cyanuric acid- 25 ppm. The multi- value I ordered should be in this week then I can cut the pool on. Now were do I go from here? Thanks!!!

I did also go to Sam' s Club and got chlorine tablets, chlorine granules, baking soda and shock packets.

[BigDave]

List the chemical ingredients of the chlorine tablets, chlorine granules, baking soda and shock packets for better advice.

[Watermom]

Report back with ingredients as Dave suggested, get the equipment hooked up and let us know when you are up and running and we'll help you get it clear.

[PoolDoc]

I can tell you what she's got -- if it's "PoolBrand". The granules are straight dichlor (50#), as are the shock packets. The tablets are 3" trichlor (40#, I think), and the baking soda . . . is baking soda

Given that she's got a swamp, it's probably not too much. She will need a K2006, to be able to gauge what's going on.

[TheGoose]

As someone who has done this several times, why not just dump and refill?