Keeping paddling pool clean

Basically it's swimming pool chemicals you need. They're designed for the job.

Rgds

Andy R

We get the children to empty the pool with buckets which they love the buckets get emptied on the flowers which they love. I then refill the pool from metered water which I do not love :-)

Chemicals or refilling are the only full solution. Keeping the pool out of the sun helps but is not really practical.

Andy

Sorry, didn't make it clear. I don't mind using swimming pool chemicals, but was worried about the effect on a plastic inflatable...

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:42:47 +0100, "Andy R" strung together this:

But don't just mash 'em all up in one bucket! ;-)

What about going down your local aquatic centre and buying a whole army of pond snails?

I'm sure they'd love the green feast.

Perhaps you could eat the snails in a garlic butter when school holidays are over and the pool is packed away?

I wouldn't trust them on an inflatable paddling pool.

Colin Bignell

An opaque cover over it when not in use helps, but it only delays the inevitable.

Colin Bignell

That was my original thought. I was hoping, perhaps, for some common household substance that would work and not poison the kids (too much!).

If there was such a substance one would surely use it in swimming pools!

When I was a kid my Dad used to sprinkle pool chlorination powder into our paddling pool to stop it going green. Got a large tub from a pool supplier and put a scoopfull in the water every so often. Water smelt, well like swimming pool water. Problem was fogetting to put it in and pool going green and you having to start again with clean water. Probably did attack the plastic but probably no more than the sun did.

Well, in this case a life of a few days would be enough. And the economics are different...I wouldn't mind if it was a bit more expensive (but uneconomic for a full size pool).

Add some disinfectant (Milton -the stuff to clean babies bottles, safer with kids).

re green stuff in pools:

the 2 standard approaches are

1. chlorine based chemicals - not sure what theyd do to your garden though.

1. colloidal copper and silver. The copper preevnts green plant growth, the silver prevents bacterial contamination. It is done by passing tiny current through 2 electrodes of copepr, and 2 of silver. Very very cheap to run, cheap to buy. Not common becoming more popular.

Regards, NT

You could add a splash of bleach, not lavatory cleaner, the stuff sold as "thin bleach". It doesn't need much.

J.B.