Recent content by blumsden

Hi All, I have a new winter cover this year for my 27' above ground pool. It's a micromesh envirocover. It came with a metal winch and cable to fix it. I drained down my water to about 6" below my return. I installed the cover and the cable sits just under the top rails. The instructions say...

Maybe although I hear they often give people a hard time to get warranty replacements. I don't want to take it back since it was a load of work to get it mounted on the roof! Also I don't want to repeat the problem if it is something I am doing wrong.

Hi All I recently installed 6 2x10 SunQuest panels purchased from Costco. All was well for about 2 weeks when I developed cracks in two different places. My VRV is on the lower right and the upper left is plugged. Pipe connections are lower left and upper right. Anyways, the cracks are where...

That's exactly what it was! Through my green water (!) I could see the seem near the cove. On one side of the pool it was half way up the cove and on the other side, it was 6 inches out on the floor. It looks terrible but glad to know it is nothing dangerous... Thanks all

Hi All - we opened our pool this season to notice what looks like a very low spot along one section of wall. The picture below shows about a 2" difference in how much of the liner appears to be below the water line. I measured the depth of water at the low side and the high side, and they are...

New strips report 2740 ppm! These ones were HTH brand - the old ones were AquaChek. The HTH ones specifically say not to get the upper half of the strip wet. The AquaChek ones didn't say that, and I used to pretty much submerse them. Later, I will test the AquaChek ones in an inch of water...

They didn't get wet, but it's very possible the humidity has affected them. I will try some new ones. The SWG is not generating yet - I just finished the shock process, so still have FC. My next step is to get the CYA up to 70 and salt up "in range". Plus the water is very cold, which I...

When I opened this year, my AquaChek test strips showed 760 ppm of salt (pool store showed 1000). I have since added 7 bags (20kg each). According to the pool calculator, 140kg should have raised the salt by 2157, so I am thinking I would be around 2900 (or 3150 if the pool store's reading was...

Reasonable! Thanks

Just out of curiosity, if CH is not a concern in a vinyl pool, and some people have 0 or very low CH with no problem, why recommend the minimum of 50 at all? Reference http://www.troublefreepool.com/pool-school/recommended_levels. My level is testing at 40, so I plan to leave it, but I was...