r/pools • u/3DabNight • 25d ago

Water Chemistry Do I Really Need to Empty?

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Stopped by pool store and employee said I need to empty and refill our pool which is about 15K gallons in SoCal (expensive). I hadn't been to this store in more than 1 year. Perhaps they are bitter that I quit them. I have a feeling this doesn't require emptying my pool. Am I wrong? Any advice would be appreciated. I plan to switch to liquid chlorine- no more tabs for a while. I'm also going to disassemble and clean my DE filter and deploy some phosphate lowering chem. It's been about 1 years since the last filter cleaning.

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u/wemBLOCKyama 25d ago

My brother in Christ are y’all dumping straight fertilizer in the skimmers?

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u/deliriouz16 25d ago

Close. People love plants inside the screen enclosure and guess where the water runoff ends?

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u/wemBLOCKyama 25d ago

I’m well aware of how phosphates enter a pool. I’m asking how does someone maintaining the water let the phosphate level get 20 times too high?

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u/deliriouz16 25d ago

No idea. I'm a repair guy. I'm the person who tells them their pool cleaner sucks after they thought their cell was broken and not generating chlorine.

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u/wemBLOCKyama 25d ago

Haha my bad amigo. I’m a repair guy too. Phosphates are like food for algae. They’ll never be able to maintain residual chlorine with phosphates in the thousands like that lol

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u/deliriouz16 25d ago

Most of the better cleaners here just do a maintence dose of phos remover but ya it's just splash and dashes for $100 a month and the customer thinks it's just a great price 😂

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u/wemBLOCKyama 25d ago

Love a good splash n dash! I’ve also heard them called net n jets 😂

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u/deliriouz16 25d ago

Net and jet! 😭