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| Hard to believe this pool was green and horrible just four weeks ago |
Have you just moved into a new home? Perhaps bought a house with a swimming pool? Or maybe you have moved into a new rental property, which just happens to have a pool. Congratulations!
And sure, the idea of a pool seemed enticing in the rental listings, particularly as Summer was just around the corner. Or maybe when you did the open for inspections the owner was there, beaming proudly over a gleaming blue pool filled with inviting, crystal clear water.
It probably looked a little bit like our pool does now, above.
But it didn't start like this. And then you moved in, and reality hit. Sure, you realize that pools can be a bit of work. Maybe some leaf scooping here, a bit of chlorine added there, but no real stress, right? Wrong.
You have moved most of the boxes in and its time to check out the yard. So you do. And see something that looks like a thick pea soup. There is something moving in there, and something else making noise.
You cannot see the bottom of that lovely swimming pool. It might even look a little bit like our solar heated salt chlorinated swimming pool did - sound familiar?
Here is the before picture, four weeks before the top picture, below :)
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| Green, smelly, dangerous, mosquito infested pool |
And just to be sure, here is the after photo of our pool, from the same angle. Same pool, slightly sunnier day, a little bit of weeding, but wow - what a difference in the water right? No more green, looks terrific.
If you would like to know how we fixed our green swimming pool and made it safe to swim in, we will give you some step by step instructions, with photos, that will probably help.
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| Our green swimming pool today, from the same angle |
First, some background :
Our pool is an in ground, salt water chlorinated swimming pool
Its about eight feet deep, at the deep end and four feet at the shallow end.
It is solar heated and the pool temperature was absolutely freezing in October but by November the temperature was perfect for swimming in. And swim and splash we did.
Total capacity is about 35,000 litres
It is located in Melbourne, Australia.
The green pool syndrome picture was taken in late September.
The nice safe pretty looking pool picture was taken in late November, about six weeks later.
And we knew little or nothing about pools to begin with, just got some good advice, and the rest was DIY fix a green pool school.
Tags and labels : Swimming pool, green swimming pool, fix a green swimming pool, salt water pool, salt water pools
