u/liberalsarefascists1

Just finished opening up an above ground for a client and I'll be honest with you. I'm just at the point where I don't want to touch them. They take just as much work as an inground pool for the service. The customers are always cheap and when opening them they take forever to get the cover off and ladder installed.

We are out there doing more work for an opening and people still want to be cheap about it because their pool is smaller. Finally at the point with it, like many other pool companies in my area, I'm just not opening up above grounds.

Unless any of you lot have some magic advice for dealing with. Probably close to 10 in of water on a cover other than wait 6 to 8 hours for it to pump off and a good 2-3 in of leaves. In-Ground pool, we can have it open 30 to 40 minutes above ground, i'm 4 hours just wanted to vent on a hot day. Maybe somebody else who's been the game longer than me may have some advice

Hi guys I made a really dumb mistake 2 days ago and over did algaecide in a customers pool like really bad. Switched this year to copper sulfate and misread my own writing and instead of dozing 2 oz per 10k I did 20oz and hit it with almost 3lbs of algaecide. Now the water turned black and the client is obviously pissed.

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What I need is advice to get it clear and start working out the copper. I plan on using some metal out, but can I floc it because it seems to already be dropping to the bottom? Has anyone used those culator things? I could really use some help to not spend $2k on water trucks

Next day update super shocking plus metal out got my reading down to 1.5 and the pool is now blue. Putting a culator in on Monday and a vacuum to waste. Thanks for the advice.

Final day the floc dropped everything out and chems are finally good, got it to .7 copper which I was after .5 but .7 is not going to hurt anything. Thanks everyone for their help

For those that see this later, I maintained shock levels which oxidized the copper, and flocced it out, got my water tests, plus one from two different stores and the customer is happy