How To Clear A Green Swimming Pool
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How To Clear A Green Swimming Pool

The worst fear of many swimming pool owners is that there pool will turn green and they will loose day and maybe even a weeks worth of swimming but if its too late and you have green swimming pool water then this guide will explain to you how to clear the water in the pool.

Things You will need to clear your green swimming pool

  • Swimming Pool Shock ( Bags or Gallons )


  • Your Filter system and Media ( DE , SAND, New Filter )


  • A Few Hours A Day In Time


  • Swimming Pool Vac Pole and Wall Brush


  • Step One

    The first thing you will want to do is to backwash your filter, and depending on what type of swimming pool filter you have will depend on if you will need to add filter media as well. Now if you have another type of filter besides a D.E. filer the nice part is that you will not have to add media, you can just backwash and move on to the next step. These fast types of backwashing filters will be sand and cartridge filters.

    Step Two