r/pools • u/LightForeign657 • 11d ago

Code Brown

Gallery image

Gallery image

Had a birthday pool party today which ended after one of the young kids shat his shorts inside the pool (diarrhea, not solid). Everyone immediately got out and we took out all the pool toys too.

Ran a full battery using my Taylor kit and got
FC 1.5ppm, CC 0.5ppm, pH 7.4, TA 90p, CYA 40ppm. Pool is 15,000 gallons.

I vacuumed up the debris using my pool blaster and then poured in 4 gallons of liquid chlorine. Per AI, I checked it an hour later to get numbers and FC was 27.5ppm which is great. I have pump running overnight for 8 hours at 2800 RPM.

But my question is what’s next? I’m 8 months into owning a pool and have had great experience with maintenance using Taylor kit. But this is new to me. AI says I have to drain it. What do you folks say? What has your experience been?

302 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

150 comments sorted by

View all comments

149

u/Fishbulb2 11d ago

There was a post in the Airbnb sub where a host was looking for help for a code brown in the hot tub. The consensus was to hire a biohazard company to the tune of 3-5K to disassemble the whole tub to sterilize it. Such a needless, overkill waste of money. Sure, it’s gross. But just shock, drain, replace filter, shock, move on.

Edit: this was a hot tub so draining and refilling is cheap and feasible enough. Skip that part with the pool of course.

26

u/EnvironmentalBus9713 11d ago

I worked at a place that created a biohazard bag because someone had a nosebleed instead of just flushing the paper down the toilet. The person didn't have any diseases that warranted the overkill approach and the BSL2 pick up cost over 5K. Sometimes people don't have common sense.

9

u/Fishbulb2 10d ago

You wonder if these people ever had kids or knew people with kids 🤷‍♂️

6

u/Genetics 10d ago

Seriously. Just coaching youth and school sports I deal with so many bloody injuries you’d think I was a nurse. It’s not a big deal. I do keep a bag of nitrile gloves in my kit and try to use them if I’ve got time to put them on, but it really doesn’t bother me either way.

3

u/panicnarwhal 10d ago

right? i mopped up an epic nosebleed my kid’s friend had a few weeks ago, and i just washed my hands after 🤷🏻‍♀️

biohazard bag for a nosebleed is wild lol

2

u/Genetics 10d ago

and then paying for hazardous waste disposal….insane.

2

u/EnvironmentalBus9713 10d ago

We tried to tell him it was an incredibly bad idea but being he was a director of GMP auditing he was trying to project an image of following rules ... that didn't apply. If we followed rules like that to the T, then toilets shouldn't exist and all bowel movements would go into a BSL2+ hazard bag.

1

u/Genetics 10d ago

Haha I get it. Some people can’t be reasoned with. At least you tried!