One more thing. I went to Walmart for the stuffing and it was cheaper to buy pillows (on sale, $4) than bags of it. My in-ground pool holds 20,000 gallons and I used two pillows. 48 hours from not being able to see the drain in the deep end to crystal clear. Amazing!

Absolutely brilliant hack! Love it! We used to have a well high in iron and managanese…stained everything in the house until we had a filtration system on that was expensive! This is great! Excellent ingenuity friends!

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That was very cool. I have never seen the iron in the water taken out by pillow fabric. Very good video and explanation of it. Have great week and God Bless.

I love the bucket idea!

I am so glad we found this video. We tried for a week to clear our pool water and this hack had it clear within 24 hours! Thank you for sharing, it worked so great for us! We are so excited to have a nice clean and clear pool to swim in. This is a great idea!

That was awesome! Good to know. Our well has more lime, we will have to try it!

Start with the water put the hose in with the stuffing. We started yesterday put the hose in with the stuffing and then when the pool was filled. Change the stuffing and then put the pool filer in the stuffing. In less than 24 hours my pool is crystal clear!

I used an rv water filter that screws on the end of hose. Worked perfect for me . The pool was crystal clear .

Very cool DIY here!!! 😊👍❤️ we used to have a 40,000 gal pool with 2 pumps on it and we were on well water. Maintaining that pool was such a pain we were glad to move because of it lol. I never thought about our well water causing the issue but now I know!! 😊👍

So good swimming pool !

Amazing video with beautiful visuals and excellent content Simply superb

super cool video thank you i too have rustier well water.

Yes the fiber also helps to

thanks guys! This will be our first year in a pool with well water! you gave us hope and the idea of ​​how to treat well water! I had seen some videos of hydrogen peroxide treatments but I don't know where to get that, well, we'll try what you did, thank you very much!!! ✌️

Thank you!! I’m gonna try this! We have the same problem!

How Awesome.. We don't have well water.. Great video! 😉

I've always wondered what people do with well water. Great video and I bet it helps a bunch of others!

Thank you. Sending this to my husband

Sand filter with filter balls works Awsome and you can back was. Works just like pillow fill

What a fantastic hack.

Hello from Minnesota!

Never knew!

This is the first of a bunch of related videos I have started to study on this problem. I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel to get this under control in my 3000 gallon fish / water garden, I have drained and pressure washed the black EDM liner several times and spent thousands on pressure filters, uv lights and chemicals trying to get a handle on this exact same rusty water and algae. The rust will fall to the bottom in a week or so and leave a muddy scum there that will harden after a month or so. I filled a swimming pond with city water $$$ right next to the fish pond and the water stayed crystal clear for a while, the well water will start turning yellow within an hour or so in the fish pond. I wonder if old clothes and such would do in that filter? I'm sure it would do something but maybe not as fast, you could hose them down and then throw them in the washing machine for the next round.

If its good enough for goldfish its good enough for me!😁

I retired from the largest pool company in the world. When you use a well with iron in it you should always add a metal free product. It works wonders!

Great video. I'm wondering if you had shocked the pool while filling? I've done something similar to your method.

Great idea and it works. It occurred to me that it would be a better idea to rig the bucket with a hose thread fitting and filter the incoming well water before it gets in the pool. Otherwise you still have sediment that settles on the pool floor. You either have to vacuum that out or keep sweeping it and stir it into the water and keep the filter going and repeat until it’s clear. Makes more sense to stop it at the source.

What about adding a filter to your inlet hose?

I did this last year and it worked great but I didn't fill a pool this year. There may an obvious answer to this question but I want to know if you have ever tried filling the pool through the pail instead of running it through the pump and pail after it is already filled, and if not, what would be the difference? if you mentioned it in the video I didn't catch it. I'm trying to make this even easier, if possible.

I have two questions. My pool is already full and extremely murky looking well this work and also I feel like it's a no-brainer but do you happen to have how to your pole hose to your bucket? What did you use to make sure it wasn't leaking

Save yourself the trouble and buy the Hayward Bobby filter that connects to the end of your hose fitting. It’s a 5 micron filter that works wonders. Great for filling pool and topping off. I live in Michigan and have well water with iron like yours. I use one every year and have never been disappointed. Get the 20” and thank me later

Hi there, thanks for this. Why not filter it through the bucket system when you initially filled the pool?

Great idea with the bucket and the fabric. I just found y’all’s channel while watching Chastity over @Cookin’ with Bobbi Jo

Hey! I'm not sure if I missed this on any part of the video, but did you add any solutions to the water? Shock, clarifier, etc??? Great job! I'm filtering mine right now 😊

How often did you clean the stuffing? Just hooked ours up and want to make sure I’m cleaning it in the right amount of time.

Do u keep the bucket attatched 24/7 or u remove n just use the filter it came with every day once its clear?? And any chemicals u use im gettin a best way 12ft and have well water never had a pool before and scared it will dry my WELL out filling it

Do you worry about running your well pump constantly to fill or do you do it in limited times to cool the pump down?

Do you recommend doing this with irrigation water as well!? I pay $10/month for that water lol only have 16’ 48” depth

Once the pool is clean and clear , do you keep the bucket running or hook it back to the sand filter ?

Just asking. Why not do that when you fill the pool. Have the hose water go through the bucket stuff. Is there a reason why not? Thanks

Instead of using the pump adapt your garden hose to the bucket when you fill and water softeners help alot with this even the cheap ones

I need this but for my aquarium.

Did u have to brush it while running this filter?

Did you also have chemicals in the pool or just the bucket filter?

Would it get rid of the alkalinity in the water?

I would also upgrade to a good sand filter with a 1 and a 1/2 horse pump.

If you just buy a decent sized pump and filter for a pool that doenst come from a box on a Walmart shelf you won't have any issues

Do you use any chemicals

How often you have you do that?

I’m wondering if filter balls do the same thing……

😂 lol

What pool pump is that?

Learn how to maintain pool water. There's a much very way of doing this and you ABSOLUTELY need a filter but get a good one and balance ph and chlorine.

I’m confused how this works after it’s full

We have been doing this method for a week, changing the batting every 24 hours and it's not working. Our pool is still brown and nasty. We're using chlorine and baking soda for the pool. Didn't work for us. We now have to drain it and fill it with fresh water

That looks more like mud. All the iron I've seen is green

Aren't u afraid of draining your well we r in the country n also on a well system but call in a water truck bc were worried we'd drain, dry up the well?!

You should add a supply list in your video description because you're not explaining the stuff that you're using and the stuff that's already came with the pool

You know what the pain is you guys put music on here that wants me to go to sleep you should get better at making videos

What a waste of time and electricity. Get a real filter and it will be clear in 2 days tops. An Earth filter not sand junk