How do i remove pollen from my pool and like anyone who has to deal with allergies? Pool owners must take a few extra steps to fight pollen in their pools, especially during those heavier pollen times during the spring and summer months. There are five ways to remove pollen from your pools check it out before you begin your cleaning process, you need to make sure that you're actually dealing with pollen, because there are some varieties of algae that look a lot like pollen and even could be sand in Your pool that looks like pollen so, for example, yellow mustard algae. Has this light yellowish green look just like pollen. The difference is where it actually collects in your pool.

Remember pollen will float on the top of your pool, whereas algae, on the other hand, will often stick to the sides and even appear at the bottom of the pool and won't be easily filtered by your pool's filtration system. If it's floating at the top of your pool - and you notice that some is picked up by your pool's filtration system, well then chances are, you probably have pool? So if you have a pollen problem, then your pools filtration system is your best defense against pollen floating. On top of your pool and here's the thing the filter system is going to pick up some of the pollen and, as it picks up pollen you're, going to see the pressure in your tank in your filter. Tank go up and your first instinct might be to backwash it, but i would let your filter system build up that pressure.

So if you're, if you're running, there's no pollen in your pool and let's say you're running at about 12 pounds of pressure in your tank, you're gon na look at your pressure gauge. If that's working and that's fine, then you start getting pollen in your pool and the pressure starts to go up. Maybe it goes up to 20 pounds of pressure you're, still, okay, you want to let it go 10 pounds over your normal running pressure. So if it's, if you're operating normally at 12 pounds per pressure, when it gets to 22 pounds of pressure, then you can backwash it now.

The reason that you have this 10 pounds of pressure buffer is because the more pollen that's going to collect in the filter that pollen is adding more media, more filtering power to your filter, which will actually help pick up even smaller particles. So let the filter system do its job, let it collect and let that collection of debris and pollen help to collect more debris and pollen. So, every morning, and maybe in the afternoon as well, you want to take a skimmer with a very fine mesh head attached to it and run it through the water to pick up any pollen that has collected there overnight. And you may have to repeat this process.

More than once a day during heavy pollen times in your area, if you're surrounded by a bunch of trees, then you may have a lot of pollen to deal with a regular skimmer net. Probably won't do the trick. You'll need a special attachment in a very fine mesh, uh skimmer net, to trap that palm real quick before we continue. 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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It's a good idea to give the pool a shock before you go to bed one evening. This will kill anything that has decided uh. Your pool is a good place to call home simply because of pollen that is floating around the water, so the next morning filter the water using your filtration system and give it another good skin to get rid of anything left over in the water and sometimes a Simple skimming won't do the trick. If the pollen is especially heavy in your area, then you actually may have to vacuum the pool manually - and i would use this as a last resort, as this will cause both your electric and water bills, to go up as you use more electricity to vacuum and Remove more water during that process, that'll have to be replaced.

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