Remove rusty iron particles from pools filled with well water. Best for smaller pools but has been done on some of the larger Intex pools. All you need is socks and a rubber band. Happy swimming.
Absolutely fabulous - thank you so much, it worked and really fast! We now have a clean, fresh pool, all for the cost of 1 pair of old socks. So grateful for your video.
Thank you so much for your video. The pool company one to sell me a $300 filter. And that’s after $60 worth of shocking solutions. All I needed was some old socks. Works great!
Amazing! Thank you!! We are new Intex pool owners (600 gallon) and our well water was fine at first but when we added chlorine tabs in the floater, we started to get rusty-colored gunk. Came to RU-vid and this seemed like an awesome, easy fix. I got three wool winter socks for the filter and in 2 hours our rusty gunk was gone and the pool was crystal clear. We are running the filter overnight w/socks just to be sure. We will use a bucket to pull the socks out of the pool, that way the gunk won’t get back into the pool. Can’t believe how quickly this worked! Genius. Thanks for sharing.
I'm at my wit's end about the sudden appearance of a green tint in my pool which I refilled with hard water (aquifer). None of the pool supplies shops in my country have anything about metal removers so I'm unable to try those solutions readily. My last resort was to replace all of the water but now I've just put 3 white socks on my filter's outlet secured with hair ties and rubber bands. Your solution makes sense and hopefully it also works for oxidized copper, which for my pool is a green tint rather than the yellowish one you have here. Update: Green tint gone! No chemicals needed, just socks! Thank you so much and Happy Easter from the Philippines.
Let me just say this! I watched countless videos that recommended buying a bunch of different chemicals and then I came across this video !!! Thank you for sharing your solution! My pool cleared up in 2 days from using your process! No money spent and my pool is clear as day! Thank you so much!!
Wow you should get this patent because my pool was this green and I used the sock method and my pool is blue with also adding metal free chemicals . Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge !
If you fill with your hose put the socks on the hose while you fill to catch iron before it even gets in pool. I used heavy duty thick winter socks with a tube sock on last. This really gets any iron or sediment out as well. Also attach the hose to the ladder so the socks are not in the water. This way no iron will dissolve into pool when you remove socks to clean. I used some rope to attach hose to ladder. A heavy duty rubber band should keep socks on. Zip ties good as well
Inside your socks try adding some quilt batting. I’ve wrapped it around my pool filter and it completely cleared all rust out of my pool within just a day or two!!
Woohoo guys I'm so full of hope and hyped about this method. I was struggling last month with my hard pool water from the well, last 3 weeks water was kind of good, but today it turned green ASF. I guess the water softener I poured before stopped working. I used new bottle of water softener and I'm about to add socks to the hose today. Wish me luck 🤞! I will keep you updated.
I got my very first pool last week (inflatable) filled it up& the next day it was Green I now know because of the metals in the well water, I totally freaked out and drained it wish I had try this first when I refill it I think I am going to put a sock with polyfill on the end of the hose and put it in the filter cartridge area thanks for the great video!
@Megan Ortega when I refilled I put a submersible pump in with a homemade filter on it that I put a polyfill stuffed sock in , I also upgraded my pool pump the ones that come with them are basically useless, my water has done great this time!
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.... just had this happen and I was so frustrated until I saw your video. I called my local pool supply store and they said they had a bunch of chemicals they wanted to sell me called sequestrants? All I heard was money money and more money. You saved my pool and my wallet! Xoxoxoxo
Thank you so much!! My pool is almost perfectly clear in 2 days! Can't believe how much the socks picked up! I did two socks with some poly fill inside. Worked amazing!
Wow!!!!!!! I just want to say thank u!!!!!! We just got r pool, 3rd day in we shocked it and it turned green by morning. Thought it was algea, bought ALL KINDS of cleansing chemicals....nothing worked! Found out it was due to the iron/copper/rust/metals in the water. Ur video popped up first on how to get rid of the coloring, and i thought, hey it's worth a shot....and BAM!!!! Pool was soooooooo much cleaner after running the pump with the socks on the tube over night!!! Totally awesome idea!!!!!!!!! THANK U!!!!!
Thank you so much for this video! We filled our pool with well water and added the chlorine shock treatment overnight 2 days ago, and to our shock we woke up yesterday morning and found the pool brown with rust, looking more like a dirty pond than a pool. 24 hours later, with the sock method you showed, almost crystal clear water! 👍✨
I wanted to say thank you thank you a hundred times thank you!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 If it wasn’t for this video I wouldn’t have a sparkling blue pool for the summer!! And I’m only out 3 socks 🧦 no extra chemicals this year!!! So happy! If the lady at the pool store hadn’t mentioned iron/rust to me I wouldn’t have stumbled on this but I did and it took 48 hours! Crystal clear and has stayed that way! Thanks for making this video been a great help to a DIY mom and I’ve raved about since!! I wish I could post the pics!
You my friend are a genius.. my pool is index 22x52 and so far I did just 24 hours and can not believe the diffrence.. was real green from metals and today it's almost clear... thank you so much...
This Works! Do it! I rinsed the filter and changed the socks filter often, than one all-night pump filter run did the trick. 2 days cleared a brown 10' x 30" pool. There was a slow drip on the outside after I removed the filler hose (even with the cap on the inside of the pool). Luckily I found a large enough cork. Using the hose sprayer was the key to getting the H filter clean. What rinsed out was the color of black coffee. The hoses still have sediment I must clean out, but the pool itself is clear! Thanks so much!
Iknow iknow, i can go out and buy more cemicals etc etc. But this trick worked perfectly. In 24 hours it has gone from brown to a weak yellow color. Gonna let it run for another 24h and it will be perfect! Thank you soo much for this tip!! First time owning a pool and i was not aware that where i live there is a good amount of iron in the water. Iron + clorine + sun = rust.. Thanks again! :)
Oh my!!!! I was searching since yesterday.. I'm trying this method now!! I can't wait to see how does it work tomorrow! In WI, we got the water that contains a lot of iron here... I put a new INTEX pool yesterday for my kids but the water was kinda greenish.. I thank you sir!
You are the man!!! Worked exactly like you said it would whom ever thumbs downed this video should sit on the thumbs they used to do it with. My wife was ready to move after she saw the color of the water, now she will stay a little longer, or at least until the next fiasco.....
Thank you for also sharing the "failures"... (socks coming off etc...) Now I can start my project well informed, and I can avoid the issues that you mentioned
THIS SAVED ME TONS!!! 24HRS and the iron is gone!!!i have a 1000gallon pool and is fairly small sooo its didnt take much time..also left the chlorine in the floaters...
I just wanna say thank you!! We were about to dump out are 18x48 pool we filled with well water. It wasn’t bad till we added the chlorine and then it got worse, this did the job! We have sparkling water now 😁🙌🏻🤩 if you have a sand filter put you some poly-fil or old pillow stuffing in it, woks wonders… We also did three socks on a sump pump as well and within 12 hours it was so clear!
Thanks for tip I'm currently doing it to my pool. I had a thought of putting the socks on the hose while filling that should get most of it. Also they sell rv filters that attach to garden hoses for 30 bucks. Thanks for the video
I added polyfil from an old pillow into the socks and it worked amazing! I stuck the socks write on the pool return jet too didn’t even need to disconnect it. Clear in a few days without any chemicals 😁
Thanks.... We have a small 3 ft by 8 ft pool, lots of iron in our well water your method with the socks worked for us overnight gonna do it a second night just to be sure but that water looks crystal clear today🌊
Halfway through filling my pool started seeing iron. Stopped filling and found this video. I used three socks on my garden hose to continue the fill. I thought catch the iron before it gets in the pool.. Then finished cleaning the water by socks on discharge hose. Thank you
I have a 15 foot pool, 48 inches deep and the intex pump just isn't doing the job at all. So I cut through the filter and it allows the water to run through more freely and I then put a stocking on the outlet and it catches all the debris. However, in the last couple of days I've noticed the water isn't so clear so I'll be trying this double sock method for sure and hopefully it'll do the trick. Thanks for your advice
Trying this now. I went to the pool store they had me buy 60 dollar worth of stuff and after 2 days it went from dark brown to orange but it’s still pretty bad. Wish me luck! Thank you for the info!
Filled up my pool (18x4) above ground round. It was clear until I put a bag of shock in it and then turned brown. Thank you for this as I think this will correct my problem.
I must say I tried this method with white socks and quilt batting stuff inside the socks so it can better filter and it works after draining my son pool 3 times from green looking water and after shocking still didn't work now he have blue water amazing
Thank you for the great tjp! First time in 6 years I had shock turn my pool green ! The water was crystal clear too 🤣 until I added the shock that is. DOAH!
I have this same exact problem, I saw this video. So now I'm trying this technique to see if it actually works😊 I will repost and let y'all know how it's doing
Thank u so much for sharing! I was so frustrated and didnt know how to fix our water. This seems simple and inexpensive enough. One question, when u say u put chlorine in it. Did u put the tablet in the filter or did u just put the chlorine straight in the pool? Thanks!
A chlorine tablet is slow release as is more for longer term maintenance. I would go with the liquid chlorine initially to see the immediate results. God Bless.
Clear it up in 1 day ez. Add Flocculant while running filter for 2hrs. Turn off filter and wait 8-10hrs. You will see it drops all the sediment to the bottom for you to use a pool vac and take it out. Keep it on backwash while you vacuum out the sediment till your done. Let pool sit another few hrs to see if any more sediment needs to be vacuumed out and your gucci. Rinse and repeat if needed and make sure when filling pool to do in increments and to buy cheap water filter for end of the hose 👌
Its 1.37 am... hubby and i we just try the sock method! We are expecting 110 degrees... we are hoping to see amazing results!!! Although we are short of 3 socks🤣worth the socks...
2 more things I did- after the water was clear, the liner floor was very slippery, as was the underwater liner walls. I wiped down the walls and the floor with clean rags and discovered brown residue causing this. I have not yet rei sed/ cleaned out the hoses that are still tinged brown, but have attached the hose to the normal water inlet. I chose two socks with thin cuffs and tucked the edge gently around the edge of the normal water inlet. The water flowed in well through the socks and shortly thereafter was just a slight brown stain beginning. Nothing at all like the initial filtering, but maybe enough to stop another slippery/ slimey liner issue.
Our water source is deepwell. What's the next step after the removal of stain (Also, should I expect it to change color after applying chlorine?)? Follow up question, how often do you change the water?
You don't need to change the water, just add when it gets low. Chlorinate slowly otherwise you'll end up with a yellow pool. This just happened to us and thanks to this video, it's almost clear!
hi I did this and it worked! how do I add new water? you know when the level goes down and you need to top it off with a little more? would the socks work on the hose?
Just use Metal Free. These methods work but not fully (at least in my area) I did the sock method and the bucket filled with poly method but came back once the Chlorine oxidizes.
FYI it’s not rust it’s sediment and tannins from your well. If your well runs too long it can start pulling in tannins from debris at bottom of your well
Been having a tanker bring in to fill my pool the last few years. $200 each summer since we have well water. Gonna try this next week once my new pump gets here.
@@wormfamily4552 went great! Shocked it didn't turn green at all. Pool is about 2900 gallons, filled it and ran the well dry twice to do it. Lol. Added shock, chlorine tablet and 2 cups of Meriatic Acid...boom clear as can be. I run the pump pretty much nonstop too. I rinse out the filter every 2 days or so. Hard to find those Intex type A filters anywhere so I'm just reusing mine for now.
I used well water and I think it has high Iron it turned brown after aplying shock dosis of Chloride, we have a Intex 5.49m diamater cilynder, we will try this metod
So the socks work because they’re very absorbent and there are many small fibers creating a lot of surface area for the water to make contact with. A pillow case, on the other hand, is usually very thin and usually not very absorbent so I don’t think it would work well. A terry cloth towel would work better but find some socks for best results.
Hello, I got small pool with small light blue mosaic inside. I can get clear water in the pool but the water inside the filter gets light blue colour same as the mosaic after 8 hour filtering. PH and Clorum normal and using algicide. Can you tell me the cause. Can it be the mosaic tearing apart in dust particles? Or is there any kind of algae that has light blue colour? Thanks Jorge Dias
Socks over the fill hose will make no noticeable difference. It works with the pool pump return hose because the pump cycles the same water through the socks over and over picking up trace amounts of discolored particles with each pass. This is why it takes multiple days of cycling the same water over and over until eventually clear.
