Intex Pool People - HELP!

[HotHolly]

I have had the smaller pools the past few seasons. At the end of the year the grass grew threw them, so I dumped it. This year I bought a BIG one. It's 16' x 48" deep. I cannot keep the stupid thing clean. We bought an extra $75 in pool vacuuming stuff. It is a PITA to clean and then it never really gets clean.

I have the test strips for it to try and keep the water clear. When ever I add chlorine, it gets horribly cloudy. I cant see the bottom. The PH isnt crazy high. I got it clear last time by dumping the PH decrease in it. So far Ive given it 2 shots of that and I still cant see past the 1st 12". Any ideas?

And if anyone rigged a super-sucker vacuum for these pools, please let me know what you did. I never had these issues with the smaller pools. Maybe this pump is too small. I swear its the same size as the med pool I had a couple summers ago.

[dcnctx]

Couple of boxes of baking soda also w/ clorine will often clear up the PH. Vacuum will remain a problem. Only solution I found was to clean in the morning when everything settled in one area and with a long vacuum hose apply it to the cluster of leaves and grass. Good luck.

P.S. As ridiculous as it sounds, if the people using the pool the day before you intend to vacuum will all go around the pool in a circle a few times till the water is all moving the same direction and then get out, in the morning the debris is usually collected into one or two large clusters making it easy to extract the bulk of it. The fine-mesh, dip nets help as well plus keeping the filters extremely clean. Oh yea, a large poly tarp for swimmers to stand on and keep their feet semi-clean of grass and mud also helped. As you mention, it was a lot of work keeping the thing clean.

[Breezy]

Holly we were told as we had 2 of them that the pumps aren't strong enough.
Our last one busted so they gave us another. The last one the pump went out and my mom drained it.
The pool people said that a pump to actually "work" effectively woud be over $300.
Good luck with it.
The baking soda did nothing for ours.