Recent content by cfeied

First of all, you need to count the revolutions per minute of the wheels when the critter is held under water with the wheels off the ground. The large wheel should spin 32 -34 times per minute. If it is less than that, then the first step would be to remove the blue flow restricter disc in the...

Poolsean and Hoosierrun -- your replies are super-helpful to me. I'm taking the advice to push harder with the gas company and contractor -- great suggestions as to how to communicate with them. And if I do end up with all electric, at least I have some confirmation that a big heat pump plus...

! I much appreciate the practical feedback from folks who have experience with heat pumps. I totally believe what you are saying -- heat pumps are problematic in colder environments, and in your experience heat pumps do not deliver what I'm looking for. A real heater would be way better...

"Keep the oil burner..." Thanks, Paul. I'm afraid that's what I'm going to hear from everybody :( -- but I have a lot of reasons to want to get rid of the oil burner, so I want to be sure I have investigated every other option first. Our heat pumps sure keep our *house* toasty warm all...

LOL -- ain't that the truth!!!

Hi all, I have an older 35K in-ground concrete pool in Bethesda, Maryland, and *all* of the pool equipment is in our main utility room in the lower level of the house. While this is very convenient when the weather is bad, I have nightmares involving 35,000 gallons of water in the rec room...

3 years ago my old Polaris 280 had a number of problems, and on the advice of a pool maintenance company I bought a new Polaris 3900. However, I was never very happy with it because it was not "peppy" -- seemed to crawl around where the older model zipped -- and the tail never really swept at...