Recent content by Blur811

I noticed by in-line chlorinator was leaking and when I picked it up the connection that feeds into the chlorinator broke right off. It looks like it may have been attached with some cement previously. Does anyone know how to repair this or is a new chlorinator required? If I need a new one I...

Thanks all!

Thanks, what equipment did you use to siphon?

I drained my gunite pool down 15 of so inches in late September but I noticed it has come up almost a foot and it is within 4 inches of my bullnose coping stones. I have tile underneath the coping so I am concerned some could get popped off with the ice. Any suggestions? There is already a...

I am not sure how old the pump is, I just bought the home 6 months ago. I can't decipher the age from the label but I suspect it is at least several years old. I don't believe it is any louder than before but I've only been using it since we opened the pool in May. It just seems to take...

I have an Hayward 1hp SuperPump and it has been taking longer and longer to prime and "fire up" as the summer goes on. A couple months ago I would hear it click on, and then start pumping a few seconds later. If I turn it off and then back on it fires up quickly but now it takes 7-10 seconds...

"Does you pH normally rise slowly like most pools do? If so I would just leave the pH alone." The ph level has dropped over the past ~4 weeks from 7.5 to 7.2 so I figured I'd should add borax. Thanks for the advice, this is my first season with a pool (just bought the home in the winter) so I...

What test kit are you using as we don't commonly see TC reported? This was from a local pool store but I measured with a Taylor K2006 test kit last night and had essentially the same results. I only went to the local pool store to test for phosphates because I've had some small pop-ups of...

I am going away for a few days so I was going to add some bleach and then use the Hayward Chlorinator while we are away. I was also planning on adding ~100 oz of Borax to increase the PH up to 7.5 Thanks for any advice FAC = 3 TAC = 3 CH = 210 CYA = 60 TA = 80 ph = 7.2

Just bought a house with a DE filter. The filter was in the basement for the winter and didn't look like it was in bad shape. I noticed a couple of spots where the fins had been repaired with some epoxy but it doesn't appear it is filtering much out of the pool. The PSI hasn't changed more...