Pool Water Cloudy

by Curry
(Harpers Ferry WV)

I have cloudy pool water and can't get it to clear up. I have put in PH-UP, stabilizer, chlorine and it has still been cloudy for 2 weeks. Please let me know what I am doing wrong. I have tested it and it says that the PH is very low, the Alkaline is Low. Chlorine is ok.

Let me know how I can clear this up so we can use our pool before summer is over.




Hi Curry. If it were my pool I would add a couple bags of vinyl shock treatment and run the filter non stop until the pool cleared up.

One of the reasons for cloudy water is just not running the filter enough. Some filters need to be run 24/7 in order to do a good job. Other filters can run less hours but the one thing that is the same for all above ground pool filter systems is this, the hotter it gets the more the filter needs to run.

Any time you have water clarity issues run the filter nonstop until it is cleared up. After that increase the number of hours per day the system runs. If the problem comes back, do the same thing, and again, run the filter more hours. You will soon find out how many hours per day your system needs to run.