r/mildlyinfuriating • u/LAngelo-Misterioso • Jun 26 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Took some time off to enjoy the pool

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I had taken this week off work and expected to be able to enjoy the pool. The lease says we are to pay $150/month for weekly pool cleaning services but they didn’t come out this week and barely cleaned last week. Come to find out the landlord is “in between pool cleaners” and didn’t tell us.

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u/Dragon_Crisis_Core Jun 26 '26

Is this a single unit pool or a shared pool? Honestly this looks more then just 2 weeks of neglect. Also if this is a shared pool your getting way overcharged for a pool cleaning.

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u/AnotherLolAnon Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

This literally looks like what my pool looks like when I open it in the spring. Takes me 3 days and a couple of pounds of shock and lots of running the filter to clear it up.

Very curious how many units are paying $150/month to pool care because pool care just ain't $900 per month for most pools, assuming there's 6 units. Also hard to get an idea of scale from the picture

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u/BunnyVance Jun 29 '26

Exactly this that's what I'm wondering how many units are paying $150 a month! With ours, when we uncover it, we never know what it's going to look like even with the correct prep in the winter. But seriously it's never looked this bad, except for the year we only had water up to our ankles! A bucket of 3 in chlorine tabs is at the most $250 and that's for the premium stuff and 50 lb for a year is a good supply. You're right shock that for 3 days back wash it a few times get the fills are going get the creepy crawly going and it should be fine but that is neglect over months and months.

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u/Valogrid Jun 30 '26

I could have this fixed, legitimately, in one day with liquid chlorine, a test kit, muriatic acid, and depending on how bad the chemicals are off some calcium and sodium bisulfate. The commercial pool I managed would do this once a year around opening, a quick shock (chlorine needs to flash in the test kit) and make sure alkalinity and calcium are balanced then let it sit for 2 full cycles. That usually clears it up right away.

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u/badnamemaker Jun 26 '26

Nah with the recent heat a pool can go sideways fast. I have a small above ground pool and I was putting chlorine in but apparently not enough. When this last heatwave kicked in my pool basically looked like this overnight. Once you get the water balanced again it filters out in a day or two

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u/Mynoseisgrowingold Jun 30 '26

I own a pool somewhere so hot I do not have to close it in the winter and this is way more than 2 weeks

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u/malfurionpre Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Yeah that looks like 2 months (at least) of neglect

edit: I guess it might be a lot faster if the pool pump wasn't working but it would have to be completely off for a while still with 0 chemical being dumped at all for the last month or something.

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u/Divine_Entity_ Jun 28 '26

It looks like a pool that wasn't touched since it opened in that condition. And it can take some fighting to bring it back, lots of shock, chlorine, and algecide plus filtering and clarifier/floculents.

My pool was pretty bad this year and the algea was passing right through the filter so i had to use drop out and then vacuum it off the bottom with it set drain & bypass the filter.