Dish soap= cloudy pool?

[Victor]

Hello all, about 4 days ago, I had a small birthday party for my daughter and made a slip and slide in the yard for her and her friends to use. I told them, you don’t need a lot of dish soap and to use sparingly, well they used have of a bottle and decided to continually rinse the soap off in in the pool. With different kids in the pool during these troubling times, I ran the pump all night and set my swg to super chlorinate. The next morning the water was cloudy and I notice bubbles in the skimmers, I tested my chemistry’s and these are the results: inground 18k gallon pool swg, FC 10, CC 0, ph 7.53, temp 85, my other perimeters cya 60, borates 50.. I just went out this morning after running all night and still is cloudy any tricks? I’m assuming the soap is making things cloudy?
Thanks
Victor

 

[kellyfair]

I would go to SLAM until pool clears, running filter the whole time.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

The dish soap is causing the cloudiness as the soap is acting like a dispersant - it’s taking all the fine particulates out of your sand filter and suspending them in the water (as any good detergent would do). You’re essentially washing out your sand filter.

Along with a SLAM to help accelerate the breakdown of the soap molecules, you might try adding pool grade DE to your sand filter to help it capture everything. You only need a very small amount of DE to do this, probably no more than a cup or so. Your filter pressure will go up if it starts to load up with soap and particulates so you’ll have to backwash and add the DE back again with every backwash/rinse cycle.

Good luck.

 

[JJ_Tex]

Sounds like a good opportunity to teach the kids about testing the water, brushing, adding chlorine, etc.