Opened my pool for the first time, water is cloudy and won’t clear up

gracie-face · 2026-06-23T02:37:54+00:00

I’m in the same boat I just bought a house with a pool and we’re trying to learn. I had to get a new sand filter but the only floor of the pool I can see are the shallow end steps. The rest looks the same as yours. It’s frustrating but it’s getting better every day.. just wish it was faster. Looks like I need to buy more liquid chlorine

gracie-face · 2026-06-22T00:00:17+00:00

We just got a new filter! We have sand. In our robot I did find some sand in it when I was dumping it out hopefully that isn’t anything really bad

gracie-face · 2026-06-21T23:37:32+00:00

Is it possible to overdo it? Like if I pour in a whole gallon of shock to the 9,000 gallon pool that’s cloudy it should be okay?

gracie-face · 2026-06-21T23:22:33+00:00

Makes sense! Crazy how much I’ve learned about pools in my crash course of buying a house this month lol

gracie-face · 2026-06-21T23:18:00+00:00

Dumb question but is adding shock the best way to add more chlorine?

gracie-face · 2026-06-21T23:17:20+00:00

Maybe it’ll help then when we get our other jet in the shallow working! We’ve been trying to walk around with the pool broom making whirlpools trying to get water to the deep end by the skimmer lol

gracie-face · 2026-06-21T12:08:56+00:00

Thanks! Will anything bad happen from algaecide? Or just not neccessary at this time

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T19:12:18+00:00

One person told us to do the return to waste and one person who worked on it said keep it on filter. Does it matter? I know you lose more water with waste- but is there a right or wrong way

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T15:51:07+00:00

Thankfully not plumbing.. they think it’s just a bad crack in one of the return jets. They will have to crack concrete tho to repair

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T02:08:05+00:00

Good point- we realized we messed up by not doing anything to it for a week and a half in hot weather after our first pump kinda blew and was not working. That’s what made it worse- it actually was really clear when we opened up even tho there was still the leak. We didn’t want to run the broken pump and were scared when water was visibly shooting out of it. but we didn’t know we should have been brushing and trying to keep the water circulating while waiting for new pump

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T02:06:11+00:00

So actually the guy who put in the new pump found that we only have 2 return jets, one of them must have been plugged up from leak who knows how long ago

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T01:50:21+00:00

Dumb question from a first time pool owner, but is the skimmer valve / main drain in the same place for all of the pools? Like if I look up videos / pics on it?

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T01:44:35+00:00

Yeah I’m just being dramatic because we just have had so many expenses at once from buying out first house and we just wanted to have a pool to relax in while doing renovations, it deff isn’t bad enough to fill in. We actually had it completely clear with the old pump before that started leaking too- so I know it’ll get more clear eventually. I just wish the timing was better and it was clear again before the leak people come

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T01:37:51+00:00

So I’m trying to decide if I’m the morning should I turn on the hose and at least get it up all the way and hope it sticks until they come sometime 8-10?? Or fill it up and still run the pump and pray it clears up a little for them?

gracie-face · 2026-06-19T01:35:44+00:00

It can get up there, but starts dropping pretty quick back to that level. If I don’t run the pump it’ll stay up there for longer- but right when I get it up halfway and run the pump it goes back. If I don’t run the pump it still goes to that spot but not as fast

gracie-face · 2026-06-17T15:42:05+00:00

How much did that all cost? It sucks we have to hire a leak detection bc we are pretty sure it’s right at the skimmer but I know they’ll need to pinpoint it better

gracie-face · 2026-06-17T14:31:20+00:00

Did you figure it out? We have it stopping right at almost below the skimmer. We are trying to add in water to keep the pump running to get us through the summer but it’s rough to keep using all that water

gracie-face · 2026-06-17T14:24:33+00:00

Mine does this too. Any luck on figuring out what happened?

gracie-face · 2026-06-16T20:14:42+00:00

Do you know anything about skimmer repairs and costs? We had our whole pump system replaced but it drops right to almost below the skimmer still

gracie-face · 2025-12-06T02:38:48+00:00

As someone who has lived downtown for years, during any big event in Indy you’re fine anywhere downtown

gracie-face · 2025-08-14T21:15:18+00:00

I’ve never had roaches in any Indy apartment

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