“Redneck problems require redneck solutions.” This woman filled her new above-ground pool with well water, only to watch it turn a murky brown from all the iron. Instead of buying expensive chemicals or equipment, she grabbed some pillow fluff from an old pillow, duct-taped it to her filter hose,... and put it on rinse cycle. Later that day, that makeshift filter was packed with rust-colored gunk — and while the water had turned green (she still needs to chlorinate), it proved her point. Sometimes the simplest, cheapest fix actually works. Have you ever come up with a scrappy DIY solution that ended up working better than you expected?show more

Without those chemicals you’re just making a breeding ground for mosquitos and bacteria.

Great idea ! But I want you to throw some Neodymium magnets inside your pillow fluff. The magnets will attract the iron. You can also place the Neodymium magnets inside a container with an inlet and exit to hook your pool hoses up to. Creating an in line magnetic iron filter.

That’s cool and all, but pool water is meant to be clear/blue-ish, not green.

Could’ve just got a drywall bucket with some filter material and some charcoal sand and just ran the filter water right into it

Wouldn't the cheapest, simplest solution just be to not care that the water is discolored?

I grew up in the Deep South and trust me...if there's a problem to be solved, a redneck will find a way lol. Very innovative people.😄👍😄

@MonBreeden I once unclogged a dishwasher with a baby bottle!!

That ain't well water, that's sick water. 😄 Or normal swimming hole water, in the South. 😁 In the 1960's my Grandparents well water was filtered through 2 torch welding, size tanks and still tasted like you had a mouth full of rusty nails. It was fun to watch someone new drink it.

Charcoal crushed up with sand in a pillow case or cheesecloth works too.

If you have iron rich well water, taking a shower tastes like your bathing in blood. The steam tastes like blood.

A pair of gym socks works best. Ball one up, put it inside the other and tape it to the hose. Change daily, will be out 2 pairs of socks but pool is crystal clear in about a week.

Once the grid goes down and society collapses by design. You best believe im headed to redneck country. They are the most resilient, god fearing, hard working, and decent humans left in America.

My student friends in Newcastle decided that that making a pond in their front garden would be a great idea. After doing the digging they realised they didn't have a means to fill it. Probably in a drunken eureka moment they dragged out the washing machine to the front of the house and used the pump in the machine to fill the pond.

I guess that's fine if you want a brain-eating amoeba

It'll work. Most of the iron will come out with a sediment filter like that. I'd go bigger if possible, 5 gallon bucket. You might need to oxidize with peroxide or bleach or just a lot of splashing from the outlet if the filter, to precipitate out the other ions.

Poly-fil (pillow fluff) has been used in the aquarium hobby for ages.

Reverse the order, hit it with the chlorine/bleach first, then use the filter.

For all above ground pool owners, this works to vaccuum your pool as well if you're not using a sand filter to vaccuum to waste 😀

This lady will do just fine if civilization collapses

Need to change the filter it doesn’t work indefinitely. You could see the break through in the end.

she made a mosquito breading ground

Sand filter will work, chlorine interacts with the minerals.

The cheapest option is actually the pool guy. He's like half the price of DIY because he now owns your problem and the chemicals are on his dime.

Can you make a sword out of all the Iron?

Hopefully, this is not a domestic water well but an irrigation well🤔🤔🤔🤔😳

Do you not have clean water?

In Russian, there's a word for this: "water treatment," and it's done before the basin is filled. It can be done with mattresses, barrels, or boards—it doesn't matter. But before.

A real redneck would have dumped a bag of charcoal in there

It would of been better if it was on the suction side. The after photo shows algae starting to form in the water.

A standard DE pool filter would have fixed the brown and the green.

That’s the worst well water I’ve ever seen in my life. My well is crystal clear lol

An RV water filter hooked to the spigot and hose works great too - sometimes have to wrap a towel around the end of the hose (our water has a lot of iron)

Afterwards she needs to install a water filtering system. My well water is crystal clear and without any contaminants but I still have a serious RO system for it

Throw some copper in the pool. Few hundred pennies will clean it up