| Lots of swimming pool owners will have to fight | | | | follow these steps to make sure it does it's job |
| with gross looking brown in pool water. The best | | | | properly: |
| way to get rid of this discoloration is by | | | | 1. Before doing any work on your pool, make |
| understanding it in the first place. We'll look at just | | | | sure your pH and alkalinity levels are in their best |
| that, and how best to get rid of it. | | | | range. |
| If you're fighting brown in pool water, chances are | | | | 2. Next, while your filter is running use the |
| pretty good that you're using well based water to | | | | sequestering agent and follow the instructions for |
| fill your pool. Unfortunately this type of water | | | | how much, based on what the company |
| contains a lot of metals, which is what is causing | | | | suggests. The amount will change depending on |
| the different colors. | | | | shape and size of the pool. You're going to need |
| In the case of brown, it is either too much iron | | | | to leave the filter running for at least 12 hours, |
| corrosion or maganese. Some times, if left | | | | and I highly recommend doing this overnight. |
| untreated, the brown will shift to a greener color | | | | 3. After the 12 hours is up, be sure to shock |
| as the metals begin to oxidize. This can confuse | | | | treat your pool. |
| people for having an algae problem, which isn't the | | | | Following these steps you can effectively eliminate |
| case. However, still keep your sanitizers at their | | | | brown in pool water. If the brown persists you |
| optimal levels to ensure that an algae problem | | | | may have to do another dose of sequestering |
| doesn't develop. | | | | agents following the same instructions. |
| Now when dealing with metals and water color | | | | In most cases, swimming pool water problems, |
| changes, a sequestering agent is required in order | | | | such as discoloration, cloudiness, and so on, comes |
| to fix the problem. Sequestering agents are | | | | about because of poor pool maintenance. Don't |
| chemicals that help keep the metals bound | | | | beat yourself up over it though, in a lot of cases |
| together in the water. This makes it so that your | | | | people are simply given bad advice from pool |
| filter can easily catch the metals, while also | | | | stores and "experts" because generally they want |
| making sure that those same metals don't | | | | you to purchase more of their chemicals and |
| oxidized which will prevent staining and more | | | | equipment which in a lot of cases are just plain |
| corrosion. | | | | useless. |
| Once you have a sequestering agent, you can | | | | |