u/K_Emre

Opened my pool recently and noticed some air getting into the system. To track down a suction-side leak, I used a dish soap solution and applied bubbles around the pump lid and suction-side pipe connections while the pump was running.

I didn’t see any obvious spot pulling air in, but later I started noticing bubbles coming out of the pool returns.

I think I may have accidentally sucked some soap/foam into the system. The good news is I believe the actual air leak should be easy to fix since it seems to be coming from one of those connections, but the bubbles are still concerning me and might even be getting slightly worse.

Should I be worried about this damaging any equipment, or is it safe to just run the pump and let it clear out over time?

My pool was in a very bad situation when I opened it yesterday (was not opened last season). After shocking with a good amount of liquid chlorine, it turned into a very cloudy blue now.

I know that I should be doing vacuum/brush, backwash, filter and keep repeating it.

I dont have much experience with pools and I feel like pool stores are not guiding that well. At this stage, what should I actually be focusing on for checmicals?

I have attached my results and what the store recommends