How to Clear Up a Saltwater Pool After Opening

Learn How to Clear Up a Saltwater Swimming Pool after Opening it. Opening the Pool is only the FIRST STEP! Follow our detailed guide to everything I do to get my own saltwater pool crystal clear and ready to swim after opening. Scroll Down to see products used in this video.

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📒 Products Used in this Video📒

➡️ Pentair Robotic Pool Vacuum

➡️ Pentair Robotic Pool Vacuum Spring Filters

➡️ Liquid Chlorine Pool Shock

➡️ HTH Super Clarifier

➡️ Clorox Pool Salt (40 lb Bag)

➡️ Pentair Rainbow Water Testing Kit

➡️ Clorox pH Down (5 lb Bottle)

➡️ Chemical Resistant Safety Gloves

➡️ Poolmate Alkalinity Increaser

➡️ Pentair Cyanuric Acid (Chlorine Stabilizer) Testing Kit

➡️ Clorox Chlorine Stabilizer

How to Keep Bees Away From Your Pool

How to Keep Wasps Away From Your Pool

How to Keep Frogs Out of Your Pool

How to Lower the Chlorine Level in Your Pool

⏰⏰Chapters⏰⏰
0:00 Introduction
1:22 Net Out Debris and Brush Stairs and Walls
3:23 Turn Jets Facing UP
3:54 Vacuum the Bottom
7:43 Check Baseline Chlorine Level
9:04 Clean Vacuum and Skimmer Baskets
10:57 Clean Out Pump Skimmer Basket
13:56 Day 2
14:36 Add Water
15:29 Day 5
16:13 2nd Chlorine Test
16:59 Adding Liquid Chlorine and Clarifier
21:47 Day 7
23:19 Backwashing the Filter
27:12 Adding Salt
32:02 Day 11
32:30 Testing the Water Chemistry
41:35 Lowering the pH
44:31 Increasing the Alkalinity
46:56 Testing the CYA (Chlorine Stabilizer) Level
51:18 Adding Chlorine Stabilizer
54:13 Outro

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[arleyhiguita]

Definitely the best video I've seen so far, nice pool by the way!...thank you 👏👏👏👍🤩

[snagglepoot]

As a first time pool owner this has been awesome to know what to expect in a couple months! I appreciate the time and detail put into the video

[_robase_]

I just bought a house with a pool, I've probably watched about ten hours of videos so far. This one is by far the best one I've seen so far. Nice and simple I like it.

[fixitwithzim]

Great video…My first year opening a salt water pool in another few months. This will put me on the right path. Thanks! Ps…nice pool!

[brucemoore]

Thank you so much for this great video !! I needed it, since I am taking over maintenance for my daughter's pool !!!

[barbaravaldez]

Thank you so much for this video. Very informative and very detailed. So helpful.

[ThRoses]

Great video, super helpful to those of us that are new pool owners. Thank you so much!

[suleiman]

Great Video...thank you. For the conditioner, you did it wrong tho. you should add the conditioner to a bucket of water to disolve, then add directly to the skimmer. thanks for the great video

[schex]

We just bought a house near New Orleans with a saltwater pool. Loved your video. It was very informative. I just have one question -- in other advice, I saw that salt should be added away from the drains, in the shallow end, and brushed around to dissolve before hitting the drain and back to the chlorine generator. You put the salt right near the drain and almost pushed it into the drain. Can you discuss the pros and cons of each approach? Thanks!

[markwisner]

Great video. Lots of detail. I guess I am a lazy pool owner. My pool has a full fence around it, not connected to house. We have grand kids over a lot and want to make sure they can't just walk out the door and get to the pool. We also use a tarp to cover the pool in the winter. When the guys pull the tarp and open the pool, it looks like it did when I closed it in the fall. When they close it, they lower the water level below the skimmer, put the plugs in, and the anti-freeze.
Being lazy, I use the test strips. They test everything in one strip, except salt level. My salt generator gives me the salt level. It takes me seconds to do all my tests.
I also have a fiberglass pool and a pool robot that is similar to yours. No seams. If it wasn't for the water temp, we could be swimming within a day or two, once the chlorine level gets within range.
In NC, we open our pool the first week in April. The sun is strong in NC. I use a solar cover and some solar heating panels I built to get the pool to warm up faster. It takes a couple of weeks to get it up to 80, if we have some good warm sunny days. When the water gets up to the mid 80's, I then put reflectix sheets around the filter and add fountains to the jets to help keep the water cooler. We have had it get up to the mid-90s before adding the reflectix and the fountains. Not refreshing.
To verify my testing is correct, once a month I bring a water sample to a local pool shop and they test the water for free. They have all the particulars of my pool and equipment. They run the tests and tell me exactly how much of which chemical to add and the order to add them. Yah, they want to sell chemicals but I have never had a cloudy or green pool. For me, it worth the extra $20 I might spend in chemicals per year to not have my significant other upset because our pool is green.

[ruthrodriguez]

Thanks for this video! I’m getting a pool installed in a few days!! Where do you store all these chemicals? Is storing it in the garage ok?

[sherylyoung]

What type filter do you have? Sand, Diatomaceous earth, or cartridge filter?

[alangolat]

If you add chlorine and your water turns brown you need to make a filter from a sump pump, hose, a bucket, poly fill pillow material. You have to filter the iron out.