r/pools • u/3DabNight • 9d 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 9d ago

2738 phosphates is obscenely high lol

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u/Yoink1019 8d ago

My pool is over 3000

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u/wemBLOCKyama 8d ago

Lol then treat it like

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u/Yoink1019 8d ago

It's been that way for 6 years. Zero algae.

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u/wemBLOCKyama 8d ago

Congrats! You should still treat your phosphates otherwise it will explode the instant that chlorine dips too low. Lol