Green Pools in the Winter.

It’s hard to believe, but you can have a green pool in the winter months in Florida. The truth is it doesn’t Cold enough, long enough to stop paying attention. There are many ways to prevent, as well as to treat this problem. If you bought a pool home with this problem, there’s an approach as well as if you have a pool and it turned green.

We’ll start with prevention, there are several metal based and copper based algicide available to prevent algae growth year-round. These are best applied after initial treatment with sodium bromide to eliminate what algae is present. Make sure that you have a clean filter or new filter in prior to the application of this product. This will prevent the most part any growth of algae year-round. Problem solved before a problem arises.

There’s yellow or green algae in the pool. This is usually caused by high phosphate levels. Initial approach would be to test specifically for phosphates and then treat the phosphates as well as using a sodium bromide solution to kill off the problem. Make sure that you brush the pool thoroughly and Clean or replace the filter. Follow up with an algae preventative.

You have a green pool. There are many approaches to turning this problem around, at this point, it would be a very good idea to hire a professional to do so. Chemical cleanups are going to be the first suggestion and worst case scenario a drain and refill. Make sure that whoever you choose to do a drain and refill is a licensed contractor with something called pop-up Insurance. If anything were to happen to your pool, make sure That the contractor is draining and refilling has pop-up insurance to hold them accountable to any miss fortune.

Using a flocking agent, as directed you can do what’s called dropping out the pool after shocking and brushing and then doing something called vacuuming to waste. After you shock the pool and turned the pool off, several days past and you vacuum to waste with two days in between until all of the debris gone. Then you replaced the filter and put in a preventative so that there will be no further issue. In the event of a green pool while shocking, make sure that the pool is tested for phosphates and treated to ease the probability of any further issues in the future.

It is possible to have problems with your pool in the winter time, so never stop paying attention if you’re home as a pool. You can also have issues if equipment has gone down such as a bad motor bad circulation, a leak in the pool and the list goes on. A green pole can be fixed and it can be prevented. The best treatment is prevention.