How do you clean an above ground pool?

[Cassandra]

There's one at my house. It's pretty full of disgusting green water. Candace left everything that goes with the pool except the manual, as far as I can tell.

Now, I'm a go gettin' type of person. And the most obvious solution to me is dump all the water out (thus flooding my back yard) and scrub the whole thing with bleach, then fill it up again with clean water. (I told you I'm part redneck, didn't I?) The water supply is from a private well, btw. So it's not like I'd be paying for it per gallon.

But, I'm SURE there is a more appropriate way to go about it. Don't you think?

I have searched all over the WWW for how to clean a really nasty above ground pool. No luck. I'd really rather not buy a book.

I've considered selling the pool next spring. But they are pretty expensive to buy and I would really enjoy swimming in it next year.

Cassandra

[gijoe9]

I am not an expert on pools but I do know there are chemicals you need to add to the pool to keep the algea from forming like that. Once they have "bloomed" you can use the same chemmies to get rid of the "green slime" and make it lok fresh again. Go see a local pool and spa business for info education and chemicals. Having a well means you could run it out of water to fill the pool and that would be bad when you go to flush things etc.. depending on how fast the water perks in your area regardless it is not good to run a well dry too often tends to fill it with dirt depending on the type of well. Definately worth it to try to save the water in the pool IMO I remember when I was still in the military doing water purification seeing water like that turn into fresh clean water with a filter and a few chems. Oh just thought does your pool have a filter? If so for sure chems will clean it and a little scrubbing of the liner. Last thought on this is probably the first thought I should of had CALL CANDACE she will know how to fix it and can give you direction to who her pool company was.

Joe

[Zen]

joe is right on. Had one for many years as a child and we(mostly dad) would clean it out using those water vacuum pumps.
We were so close to having an inground pool put in but when we applied for financing we found out there were credit problems! I'm not intersted in a high interest second mortgage.

[Zen]

I don't think you can easily sell above ground pools. If you do it wouldn't hardly sell for much.