Cloudy Water In Your Swimming Pool

Some Causes of Cloudy Swimming Pool Water

1. Inconsistent swimming pool chlorination. This is probably the #1 reason. If you don't keep enough chlorine in your pool ALL the time, you WILL have problems.
2. Dead algae is still in the swimming pool pool. If you had algae (the pool was green), but you killed it, and now the pool is cloudy blue or gray . . . dead algae may be the problem. Some types of dead algae are quite difficult to remove, especially with sand or cartridge filters.
3. Live algae is in the swimming pool pool. 95% of the time -- or more -- if your pool is green AND cloudy, it's algae. Kill it!
4. Swimming pool pump over-sized for sand swimming pool filter 
   
5. Your pump not running long enough. (Adjust the timer!)
6. Calcium hypochlorite pool shock or chlorinating powder used incorrectly. 
7. Adding sodium bicarbonate AND calcium chloride to the swimming pool at the same time.
   (Never, never do this!)
8. Too much sodium bicarbonate (pool alkalinity increaser).
9. Overdose of calcium chloride (pool calcium increaser).
10. Too much sodium carbonate (pool pH increaser).
11. Swimming pool pH level has drifted too high.
12. Swimming pool saturation index is too high.
    (This means pH + Alk + Cal Hardness are together too high.)

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