I have no frickin' idea how I ended up watching this video. I don't have a pool. But I watched the whole damn video and that was awesome.

Randomly hit your channel. I do have a pool....but I stayed because of your integrity on making things right with your customer after you forgot them. Much respect friend!

Good job man, as a retired poolman I have come across this many times. I mainly did commercial pools but also residential, I can't tell you how many times I was flagged down by a desperate home owner who said her poolman stopped servicing the pool, it is green and they are having a pool party in 2 days. Everything this guy did was spot on with the only one exception. I would return the next day to do a complete filter clean cuz if you have algae in the pool shell you also have it in the filter tank and you have to get rid of it. The best part was picking up the check and having the homeowner praise you and thank you.

Glad you mentioned circulation as a major factor in the results, I once worked at an apartment complex that let its pool pumps get into disrepair and they barely circulated the water in the pools, so getting them clean and stopping the growth of algae was a constant battle and ultimately a losing one given that they barely had enough people to do all the work. No matter how good you are at cleaning these, the owner still has to be on top of maintaining all the important equipment.

Me, who doesn’t own a pool: ahhh *interesting*

Thankyou. Im opening 6 pools a day and Water chemistry is my weak point. You help me understand it a lot instead of just dumping a jug of chlorine and an algae60 in every pool

It was nice to see that you admitted your mistake. Not many people will do that. Let alone on KZfaq. 👍

I came into the pool biz last year and your channel is a gold mine! Clearly (ha), this reality based scientific approach to maintaining pools will make my life easier.

Don't have a pool and don't know why this video was recommended to me but i watched it.

Satisfying videos led me here. This by far is one of the most strangely satisfying videos I’ve seen mainly because I don’t have a pool and because I could not stop watching. Great job on what you do...you are clearly a pro. 💥

I subscribed because of your integrity. Three houses ago I had a pool. It was fun to watch you clear it up.

I've been taking care of pools for 15 years, 5 on my own now. I do like your method and may try it soon. Using liquid bleach didn't cloud the water like 12 lbs of shock would. Good job!

Grew up with an indoor pool and made my M.Sc. in chemistry! Well done... 😉

Wow! I have never seen a pool Go from green to blue in one day! That was amazing!

I loved how you had to address adding chems to the skimmer. Been a service tech for 20+ yrs and always added chems to skimmer u less it was liquid based chlorine. And still have had heaters on pools for many many years. Not as bad as everyone thinks

Im 100 % impressed you admitted goofing up. As a 38 year pool service vetran.... 99.9% of is would hide the mistake . Lol Great job man Good video. Like that you brushed in that much acid. Keep up the great work!!!

not sure how i got here, but, the back yard swimming pool = the common chemistry set.

I used to have a pool but I had it filled in. We just stopped using it and the money spent on having it serviced / cleaned to maintain a clear pool was reallocated to other things for the home. Besides by filling it in my homeowners insurance rate decreased as well and it makes a nice garden area now.

cool vid, reminds me of my days of treating pools back in San Antonio TX. we didnt use an algaecide back then , we used chlorine gas and with fresh water we add a stabilizer . i remember i went out to treat a green one and by the time i was done adding chlorine it had turned blue .. pretty cool stuff ... we would also plug the skimmer and run it from the main drain to clear it up after brushing ...

Love watching your videos!! Really helps me out with my pool I’m a single mom with a huge pool and it’s a lot of work so just wanted to say thanks

Looks like that whole damn property needs a clean up.

OMG the skimmer basket... so much ick loaded in there!

I’ve been servicing pools in south GA. I was bout to flipped when you added that PoolTech into the skimmer. Lol! Great video.

Just hearing you talk about how you are going to treat it. You can tell you know your shit. I did the construction side of the pools and when we got slow helped with the maintenance of the pools good times. Great job you definatly love your career.

Knocking out that green pool with just one hand! Beast!!

I have an L shaped pool that goes from 3ft-9 feet with a driving board. I enjoy it. I really enjoyed watching this video. Appreciate what you do man. You can do my pool anytime. This was helpful. Thank you.

My pool just went green and it has been like that for about two weeks, I am going to try your method; will let you know how it turns out. But, first I am goinf to test the PH levels. thank you for sharing. Eli

As Darth Vadar would say: Most Impressive! Thanks for the informative vid!

Coastal FL pool guy here. Yes that was satisfying. Go Go CPO

Also well done. neat trick. I've been a pool guy for 20 years and I learned something interesting today.

Interesting choice on the poly algicide. My go-to was always silver, though I've been out of the game for a while. Been there done that though, algicide + chlorine + clarifier means murky green to crystal clear in a couple hours. Give it some time to burn off the excess chlorine and good to go :D

Really helpful. I learned a lot. Video also very well done. To the point without the BS. Thanks so much.

Forgot to put on the route list. I’ve done that more than once. Fine job 👍

great awesome.nice to have another honest pool guy like you,GOD BLESS YOU

I’ve been clearing pools for a decade and this guy KNOWS his stuff!

Good swimming pool science. I'm the only one in my neighborhood that takes care of my own pool. SATISFACTION.

About pool brushes, if you get a round brush (with the bristles all the way around it) it’s a life saver, soo much easier to use than just one sided brushes

I live in Northern Ireland!! The only pools we have in our gardens is puddles from all the lashing rain! But I found this video fascinating!

This video reminds me when the Rio event organizers for the Olympics said "Chemistry isn't an exact science" when referring to the green pools for the summer games

How come that the bleach is not a problem for swimming later on? Is it just the sheer dilution or...?

Judging by the video speed settings this likely took about 3 minutes real time. This is based off of him starting to pour at 9:20 and it being completely blue (visually) at about 10:30 and the speed being somewhere between 0.50 and 0.25.

I don't have a pool but do have a few barrels for watering plants. A few drops in the barrel keeps it from turning green and doesn't no harm to plants.

Dang I double tapped fwd right as he was saying “this is about the end of your attention span.” Lol

I've worked in the food industry on sanitation and let me tell you chlorine became my favorite chemicals. We would open food processing machines and it would be a mess no way to clean overnight by scrubbing but with a chlorine bath it would just dissolve anything and would require only a good rinse after.

I think it would be fair to note that this type situation was an algae "flare up" that occurred over a short period of time. They can be knocked out quickly and pool safely back in service within a day or two. Pools that have not been chemically treated or serviced for longer periods of time will require a more extensive process.

we use pool rx blue algaecide and that stuff works as a charm. havent seem algae since the beginning of spring when we were first adding them to our pools.

I also dont know how this came up. I do have a small pool but I take good care of it and have no issues. Nice video

I could tell you’re a pro when you treated pH before chlorinating. I used to use Cal Hypo and twice the amount of acid. I used The same algaecide when I couldn’t find silvertrine.

had a dark green swampy pool. followed this process to see if we could avoid the $2000 drain and clean service. it was AMAZING! it changed from very dark to light green within the hour. let the pool filter run for the first 12 hours. now the pool is a cloudy light blue. to be expected with the level of green we had. adding flocculant and vacuum, vacuum, vacuum. cannot believe that we could have such a huge turnaround in less than 24 hours.

Mine went from swamp-green to CLOUDY WHITE. Been running cartridge filter for two weeks, at first I couldn't see the second step, but now can see the floor of the shallow end. Slowly getting there!

finally someone who uses the same test kit

who else got this in their reccomended cause they started watching pool cleaning videos

the boarded up house tells me that the owner is the bank, and they are trying to get it sale ready for an auction.

“Guys calm down” Man you must’ve been reading my mind cause I damn near had a heart attack... I always tell my staff and customers don’t add ANYTHING down the skimmer ha

if youre here its because you can appreciate a job well done, look at all the weird recommendations its a skill set thing im slowly figuring out what youtube is thinking XD

Thank you for the video you help me turn my green pool to sea blue..

Id love to see the swamp pool at an somewhat abandoned mansion i was installing an ac in be turned into a clear pool

What was the first bottle you added? (Acid? Muriatic?)

How long what you have to wait before using the pool again? As I guess you would probably dissolve jumping straight in LOL.

Green to blue in hours more like

It’s the long white tube socks with black shoes for me

I haul sodium hypochlorite to a bunch of places pool places nuclear power plants water treatment plants

About how long from the start of adding the chemicals to finish, did this take? I used Algatec last year after watching this for a mild algae issue, and it worked well. This year my parents (who live 70 miles away) let their pool get cloudy without telling me. Now it's green and the wost it's ever looked. I currently have the chemistry balanced.

KZfaq recommendations are just getting crazier and crazier

I have a cartridge forwarding system. Should I pull my filters while running the chemicals for maximum flow?

I’ve been taking care of my pool for years and just use acid, liquid shock, baking soda, and that’s about it. Ten gal. Of shock at one time, how did you not bleach your liner?

Very cool, BUT what's your end-of-day chlorine level? When will it be safe to swim?

I'd have done 4 lbs of trichlor powder for a couple of reasons 1. Ph of trichlor is around 3 so no need to add extra acid 2. Much cheaper than 10 gallons of bleach not to mention the space it saves in your truck. 3. You may not have had to use an algecide trichlor is strong enough and lasts long enough in the water to most likely kill all the algae on its own. 4. For every pound of trichlor you get 2-5 ppm cyanuric acid so you almost don't have to add cyanuric acid to start the pool. Good jobs regardless but it's still a business gotta be the most efficient you can to make money

I dont have a pool but if i did i would hire a guy like this

My pool man is getting fired today because my pool on my rental property looks like this... I am going to follow your instructions and do the same to my pool tomorrow... How fast after I do this is it safe to swim.... Should I do another backwash or complete DE filter cleaning a couple days after this bombing? Thanks a lot.. Your info is very precise and easy to follow...

When performing this should I shoot for a certain ppm of chlorine or just add 10 gallons? 10,000 gallon pool.

it may be slightly blue, but it's foggy and needs the algae removed from the bottom once yet more chemicals are added to stick to the algae and it falls to the bottom. they don't just dissppear.

How does this even work - even if the algae dies from the elevated chlorine level there's no way the filter removed all the algae in that time so is it literally bleaching the color out of the green chlorophyl in the algae?

Outstanding video, and a huge help! Thank you.

What if the reading is the opposite? Very low PH and very high chlorine? Super green pool

Thanks for good video to learn how to take care the pool. I am first time Own the pool I have a ? My fool has some yellow algae around a wall. In spas and on step so what chemical I have to use to get rid of algae oh my around 9500 gallon and how much chemical to put it in and how fast the pump I have to set at. waiting for your reply thanks again.

My Cya level was to high. Drained 25k gallons of my 30k gallon pool. Refilled with clean water and added clarifier. Staying away from any chlorine tablet that has any stabilizer. Pool is pristine now.

Crazy! My pool turned green. I didn’t google anything - just discussed it in the phone. Then this popped up

My pool is like that but still cloudy is it because I keep using the net and not letting it sit I have my filter on

How much of the algaecide did you pour into the skimmer? Was it half?

Hey! I got a question i have some water bugs in my above ground pool their name is back swimers have any idea how to escape them?

That's 2 week old tap water? there did the nutrition to grow that algae come from?

Man I wish I could have you come work on my pool, I struggle keeping it clear and yes I do have pool maintenance weekly. I just upgraded my pool filter and still have issues..

You just got a new subscriber and, like many here, I do not own a pool.

At first when you were pouring the pool tech down the skimmer I was like whoa what are you doing but then I learned

Why not clear instead of blue water?

I’ve shocked my pool and used a algae control product and it’s still teal green should I add a Calcium hardness to it?

Most satisfying pool video

9:45 for instant satisfaction

Doesn't all that liquid chlorine cause the pH to spike? Bleach is pH is 11-13. I exclusively use liquid chlorine and have trouble keeping the pH at normal 7.5.

Very interesting, Zach.. thanks for sharing. Turning it blue in minutes? In addition to a couple hours of brushing, flushing, backwashing and flushing.. yeah the reaction was pretty fast.. but that was a back breaking coupla minutes. To the guy from the pool store that said it was $40 worth of stuff.... maybe wholesale. Bleach is $3.40/gal, acid is another $4/gal, the algacide is $31, and electricity is $0.22 / kwh. I wish I had your math! Glad to know theres an algaecide that isn't antagonistic with chlorine... I had read you should not add chlorine and algacide at the same time. Seems to me. as a homeowner, letting your pool go green is about a $200 mistake...What am I missing?

So much organic debris around and on the pool pump equipment.

My pool starting to look just like that. Have a leak somewhere in the skimmer

I only use liquid chlorine, not stabilized. And set the cyanuric acid level at 30 and keep it there with granular cyanuric acid. I assume you do the same. When you use stabilized chlorine you lose all control over the chlorine and cyanuric acid levels as opposed to setting them individually. This one trick is the key to controlling the pool.Of course also controlling the other variables, of pH, alkalinity and calcium hardness. But cyanuric acid is the king.

Why is the home boarded up?

It's never a mistake to own a blunder.

How long before you can use it after adding that much acid? Seems like it would take quite a while to be OK for swimming again.

Dude, I don’t even own a pool,but KZfaq recommended the video.Interesting stuff,man.Fantastic job and enjoyed the video,looking forward to the next one.

Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is cleaning a pool.

Always put most chemicals in the skimmers. I just don't mix chemicals in there, especially some that will react together.