April 28, 2008
Miraclear - Highly Recommended
It's rare that I recommend a product. It's even more rare for me to go through the trouble to write up and recommendation for a product on a web site. A couple of years ago, I was at my wits end with our above ground pool. The water was cloudy and green and nothing seemed to work. I was running the pump 24/7 as was recommended by the local pool shop. I had tried shocking it, scrubbing it, vacuuming, algaecides and clarifiers. Nothing was working. I was at the point where I figured we were going to have to drain the pool and refill it. Easy enough, huh? Nope. Last time we did that, the liner shrunk and we couldn't get it to stretch back out. I was looking through In The Swim's website and saw this product called Miraclear, a product made by the Lo-Chlor company located in Australia. It's a little seashell shaped clarifier that you drop into the hair trap basket near the pump. (It now looks like they are making it in a cube). For 10 bucks, I thought I would give it a try. So, I ordered it. I backwashed the pump, rinsed and then shut it off, so I could install the little Miraclear seashell. Then, I ran the pump all night. The next morning, I could see results. About 1/3 of the way down, the water was clear. Hmmmm...... The next day, even further down it had started to clear up. By the third morning, the water was crystal clear. It was beautiful, clean and sparkling. No green, no cloudiness. I ran into problems again this season and dropped a Miraclear shell in and was in shock the next morning to see that just running the pump all night was enough to clean the water yet again. The pool looks absolutely beautiful. I highly recommend that your chemicals are balanced, before you add the Miraclear shell. I tried it last year, when the pH was really low and it didn't work as well. So make sure that everything is where it's supposed to be as far as chlorine, pH and alkaline. It's rare to come across something that truly works as advertised. This is one of those products.