If you've got cloudy pool water, should you use, pool clarifier or pool flocculin, while they both help clear up a cloudy pool, it's important to know which one to use and when check it out all right. Let's start with pool clarifier pool clarifier contains polymers that clump together those nasty, tiny particles that cloud up your pool and when you add clarifier to cloudy water, all those tiny particles coagulate together into bigger particles that your filter can actually capture pool clarifier has a few Benefits first, it's less work, just add the pool clarifier to your water and wait for your filter to do its job. Second, it's good for mild cloudiness. If your pool is just a little cloudy, but you can still see through it.

Clarifier is the way to go. Third, it saves water, it helps your filter to work more efficiently, so you won't have to remove any water from your pool to clear things up and finally, it could be used any time, even when your pool's not cloudy. You can add a little clarifier to give your pool that water clearing boost, but, of course, clarifier has a few drawbacks. First, it works slowly.

It may be a few days before your pool is completely clear depending on how cloudy it is. Secondly, you'll need to clean the filter once the clarifier has worked. All those clump particles will be in your filter, which means it'll need a good cleaning. Okay, let's move on to pool gloculin aka full clock just like pool clarifier pull flock coagulates together particles, but it creates larger clumps that sink to the bottom of the pool.

These can't be removed by your filter and must be removed with a manual vacuum. What are the benefits of using pool plug well for one it works quickly. You won't have to wait days for your pool to clear the particles clump together at the bottom of your pool in a matter of hours, and it's effective, no particles get left behind. So you won't get stuck with cloudy spots in your pool and it's ideal for sand filters and de filters.

Sand and de filters usually have multi-port valves with a waste setting. That means it's easy to bypass the filter when vacuuming out the clump particles, but, of course pool flock has a few drawbacks. It's definitely more work once the clumps form at the bottom of your pool. You will need to remove them with a manual pool vacuum and when you vacuum it may stir those particles back up clouding your pool again now, if this happens, take a break and allow those particles to resettle then begin vacuuming again, you may want to vacuum two Or three times to remove all of the clumps and you want to vacuum slowly.

Secondly, you'll lose pool water. When you vacuum the clumps out, you will need to vacuum to waste, to bypass the filter. Your water level will decrease and you'll need to replace. What's been lost, finally, you cannot use cool flock with a cartridge filter if you do not want flocculant in your filter that heavy duty flock will block everything up.

That's why you have to bypass your filter when you vacuum, so unless you have a custom, plumbing setup that allows for this, you won't be able to use this with a cartridge filter so which one should you use? If you want your water, clear, asap or you've got a really cloudy pool, then go for pool flock. The vacuuming takes more work, but it's faster. If you just opened your pool or it's just a little cloudy up for the cool clarifier you'll also have to use pool clarifier if you can't vacuum to waste or bypass your filter. If you're looking for an easy to follow tutorial, that'll answer, all your pool questions go check out our pool care handbook and video course you'll, get over 30 in-depth video lessons and a step-by-step downloadable guide covering everything you need to know about, pool maintenance, it's packed with Money saving tips, so you can save money and time keeping your swimming pool clean.

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