Recent content by AzWildcat

It is a 2 HP Century Centurion B130. Don't recall seeing the "squirting" at shut off before but that doesn't mean that it wasn't.

So that is something that does happen - they warp ? Thanks

I am getting small bubbles through the inlets. Noticed when I shut off the pump, water squirted out between the top of the basket strainer and the strainer body. I took off the top, cleaned both surfaces real well, put in a new, well lubed O ring and the same thing happens - bubbles and squirt...

I have a Hayward DE filter. When the pump goes off I can hear water leaving the filter. When I start it up again there is quite a bit of air blown into the pool before water fills up the filter and am back to "normal". This morning I took the strainer basket top off and saw water coming from the...

Best "deal" locally for a set of 7 long - 1 short 60 SF replacement grids for my Hayward Pro-Grid was $277.00 (TT&L with a 5% discount). Got the same grids from A1 poolparts.com for $159.00 (with shipping from CA to TX).

Topic split off by Moderator Geekgranny - Need to get some grids for my DE filter. Where do recommend to buy online ? Thanks.

Thanks both y'all. Have been running mine WAY too much (everytime I run the filter pump) . Thanks again

Have just successfully won a battle against black algae and am very proud and gratefully to report that I am now 100% on the BBB method of pool maintenance. Just this AM, after 3 days, got my TA to 100 using Waterbears method of lowering pH to 7.0-6.8 and then aerating. Worked great. Everything...

Am a fan of the Cats as our son goes to and plays football for the U of A. Really like Tucson.

Thanks again ! Your logic is clear and you have added another piece to the puzzle. I do not see any algae, Black or other wise. Believe I have scrubbed off the last remaining visible heads and treated with a triclor puck until they have disappeared completly. My confidence level is 99% that I...

Thanks a bunch. I really appreciate it. Is it correct to assume that your caveat of approach 2) is based on my belief that the all the algae may not be dead so therefore I am at greater risk for its return (again, given its assumptive presense) should the 6.5 min level drop and not that the...

Beginning to understand, I think. The critical criterion, given I had BA, in determining which chart and consequently which FC level never to fall below is whether or not I THINK I killed it all. So that I can get a little more clear, let's assume a 40 CYA - 1) If I think I did kill it all...

It was my "feel" for the pool that got me into the position from which I just eradicated myself - a black algae farmer. My first step in giving up the aquatic algae farm was to follow advice here and kill the BA. My second step was to commit to the BBB system and in that spirit I read gobs of...

Thanks for the help and the link. Want to verify an assumption that I think is correct. Does the Yel/Mstrd Min in the Chlorine/CYA Chart mean the min level of FC above which, given a measured level of CYA, that Yellow or Mustard (and by extension Black) Algae will NOT grow in a pool ? Or, does...

Just finished a week and a half war with the dreaded black algae and am claiming victory. Just got a TF-100 kit yesterday and am now in the process of bring our pool into balance and beginning the BBB method. We have a 25,000 gal plaster pool with a DE filter. I will be taking the filter out...