Question about orange/brown stain...

[vgg659]

>> I'm wondering whether I should do the same thing vgg659 did?

Absolutely. But, don't forget what I did.

1. First, I brushed and brushed.

2. Then I treated with elevated chlorine levels. Pretty standard advice on this forum.

3. Then, I got my water tested for metals (well, I tried, but the pool store was closed).

Since I had to wait the holiday weekend for the store to open, and I already had a quart of Metal Out, I dumped it in. I haven't done any maintenance treatments lately of Metal Out, so I figured it couldn't hurt.

4. Since I had already treated for biological stains (elevated CL), and nothing happened, and my stains responded to the Metal Out treatment above, I treated for a metal stain even though my water test (sample taken prior to Metal Out treatment) ultimately showed no metals. I used 4 lbs of Stain Out and 2 qts of Metal Out to treat my 25,000 gal pool, following label directions. By the way, following label directions is important when dealing with metals and chlorine.

So, begin at step 1, and I'm sure that you'll do fine. I'd be particularly interested in the results of your water test.

[Lenny]

Will do, vgg659. Thanks. I'll give it a shot and report back.

Lenny

[gwrace1]

I can tell you what I did to prevent the Iron staining. We are on a very hard water iron/magnesium rich south Texas well.

I initially filled our pool from the water softener where I had installed a 2 micron whole house filter. While the pool was filling I added the prescibed amount of metal out and polyquat. These two products seem to work great together to allow your filter system to remove metals. Since I was going to be using an SWG I didn't mind the added sodium in the water. It took a lot of regeneration cycles and several bags of salt to fill our 26K gallon pool.

I'm using a 26" sand filter with Zeolite as the filter medium. I allowed the filter system 2-3 days to filter the water before turning on the SWG.

By day 4 the SWG was switched on and has been maintaining 3PPM FC ever since. Water is crystal clear with no staining.

Since I now have my salt levels where I want them I fill directly from the well with the same 2 micron whole house filter attached to the end of the hose. It seems to be working as I have not seen any signs of staining. I do watch the PH and TA levels and keep them in check with Muriatic Acid.