Fixing my swamp

[jtnaylor]

Anyone?

Any easier way to get this junk off the surface of my pool? Any way to make the skimmer actually suck it into the filter for me instead of it gumming up in there? Once it does that it just quits flowing into the skimmer at all.

[waste]

We are actually here for you! I think the trouble is that no one has a better suggestion other than scooping the 'stuff' off of the top If you want to spend the money and make it a quicker ordeal, Proteam has a chem called 'system support' which will raise all the submerged stuff to to surface in ~ 1 - 2 hours --- you still have to manually skim the surface and you have to add a good bit of acid to the pool (the stuff has a very high pH), but you get all the debris out of the water quickly and it seems to help clear the water more quickly than bleach alone. If you don't want to spend the extra $ for it, you'll have to deal with the problem as you have been - it becomes a question of how quickly you want the pool to be clean. I'm afraid that the manual skimming will be necessary whichever route you go

[jtnaylor]

We are actually here for you! I think the trouble is that no one has a better suggestion other than scooping the 'stuff' off of the top If you want to spend the money and make it a quicker ordeal, Proteam has a chem called 'system support' which will raise all the submerged stuff to to surface in ~ 1 - 2 hours --- you still have to manually skim the surface and you have to add a good bit of acid to the pool (the stuff has a very high pH), but you get all the debris out of the water quickly and it seems to help clear the water more quickly than bleach alone. If you don't want to spend the extra $ for it, you'll have to deal with the problem as you have been - it becomes a question of how quickly you want the pool to be clean. I'm afraid that the manual skimming will be necessary whichever route you go

Hi thanks for the reply. This stuff :
http://www.poolgeek.com/Proteam-System-Support.htm

I read that it takes all the chlorine out of the water??

Will it really make all the leaves and gunk surface? Sounds great if it will. I know that as the algae is dying I keep seeing more and more leaves in my pool that must be coming up from the bottom - I consider that a good thing!