Tebuthiuron worked well on the Toomer's Oaks

Been treating the pool for more than a week and it's hardly at all changed from the milky green blue colour that it was when we moved in.


...Bloody pools!

What products are you using? How long do you have the pool filter on for? If you PM ROMFT, he can give you some advice.

Head over to TroubleFreePool

They have some awesome experts there who can get you fixed up.

Not sure what chemicals you are using but all you need is regular household bleach (chlorine) and lots of it anything else is a temporary fix and/or just masks the underlying problems.

Get yourself a reliable test kit and DON'T under any circumstances rely on your local pool store for advise (or testing). They exist only to sell you a bunch of crap you don't need.

Chlorine and TLC should be all you need.

Thanks, I'm pretty much using only chlorine. The Google people reckon it's the pool filter sand that needs replacing so I've currently got my Youtube buddies working on that

Thanks that's a great site

I realised that the local pool shop is generally not the place to go at the same time as I discovered they charge pretty much twice the prices for things that can be found elsewhere. But I might need them to come and show me what all the pipes and vales are for in the pump cupboard. What with the spa pipework, it's like a box of spaghetti in there

...Next homeowners challenge: Possums. There's a bloody colony of the things in my roof

After 12 years of experience I've finally settled on a regimen that works.

Long and slow filtration, is key, with a cheap low power pump to keep costs down. Mine uses 100w rather than 700w full bore, set to 8 hrs over night. I reduce it to 6 hrs either side of summer then to 4..

Before I got one of these I was not filtering enough. Turn the water over once a day nice and slow. I stopped using a pool cleaner 3 years ago, just allowing the filter to do its work. Once a month I vacuum to waste after leaving it to settle. Don't obsess too much with tests, get the buffer right at season open, it might need a bit of adjustment over the season then regular chlorine and a bit of algaecide when you remember..I've occasionally let the pH go out of whack but with filtration it seems to keep pool clear..

Buy chemicals from Woolies...

Blimey must be nice not to have trees and leaves Our filters would be ****ed within a year if we didn't have a pool cleaner. As it is we've finally bitten the bullet and replaced our 10 year old filters.

Well, thanks to troublefreepools and a bit of perseverance I now have a shimmering pool. Well, almost - I can see the bottom now and it has a decidedly light blue colour. A few weeks more and I reckon it'll be perfect! Just in time for winter!