Rid The Water Of Green Goblins And Growth With Your Spring Pool Cleaning Project

Over the winter months, your pool is closed and there are things living in the water. This is due to the chlorine and treatments in water evaporating away and algae and bacteria starting to form. This could mean that there is ugly green growth in your pool during spring cleaning, which can be difficult to remove if there was unusually warm weather this winter in your area. The following tips will help you rid your pool water of the green goblins this spring, and in time for summer opening:

1. Scooping the Green Growth Out of Your Pool to Get Ready for the Spring Weather

To start cleaning out the mess in your pool, you will need to begin by scooping out the largest clumps of debris. If you have a large fishing net, this is a great way to start quickly cleaning out the largest clumps of debris. Continue cleaning with pool skimmer nets throughout the cleaning process to remove as much debris as you can manually and reduce stress and damage to pump and filtration equipment.

2. Filling Your Pool to The Line of The Skimmers to Start Skimming Floating Debris from The Top of The Water

Usually, you reduce the amount of water in your pool during winter by partially draining it and winterizing your pool's plumbing and equipment. Therefore, when you get ready to start cleaning the pool water to remove algae growth, you will want to remove any plugs in outlets and skimmers and fill the pool back up to the line of the skimmers to start removing any debris that floats on the surface of the water.

3. Circulating the Water and Backwashing the Growth and Grime from Your Filtration Equipment

To keep the water in your pool clean and clear, it is important that it circulates through the pump and filter system at a regular rate. When you are trying to remove green growth and clear up the water, you will want to run the pump and filter more frequently. In addition, you will have to repeatedly backwash the filter and change the filter medium once the water is completely clean.

4. Chlorine Shock Treatments and Treating the Water to Get the PH Balance Right Before Swimming

The last step in the process to rid your pool of the green algae growth is to treat the water with chlorine treatment. This can be done with special treatments that are designed to clear the water and kill off organisms that grow in the water. The shock treatments raise the level of chlorine, so you will also want to check the pH balance before you start swimming and may want to add a water clarifying treatment if the pool is still cloudy.

These are some tips that will help you rid your pool water of the green goblins before the warm summer weather arrives. If the problem with green pool water that is full of algae is too much for you to handle on your own, contact a pool care service for help getting it cleaned up before the summer months arrive.