Recent content by ctfortner

Thanks for the info ssgumby.. I am not sure if he was going to put holes in the pvc until I asked about the equipment being lower and if it was a concern, but I think it was something along the lines of if water somehow made its way back toward the equipment it would drain out vs. sitting in...

I think I have a good understanding of what to do but wanted to ask about a couple of things. The $250 to open it is just more than I can stand to spend on something I feel is fairly simple. I am a pretty handy guy, I replaced my pool pump motor myself mid season last year, so I should be able...

pool pump motor swapped today! man she is purrin like a kitten. can barely hear it now! thanks for the info guys/gals

thanks guys. i am not sure i understand the valve. so i looked at the 2 valves and i see the "off" on the handles. the valves have stamped on them "IN". so if you consider the valves to have 4 positions (up, down, left, right) the one on the left has "IN" at the bottom, the one on the right...

hey guys, my 2 yr old hayward pump motor is real noisy, probably bearings. praise for hayward, its over the warranty but i called them and 3 days later i got a new motor and seals no charge. thats great customer service. anyway, i have never been real sure how the main drain and skimmer...

so it quit raining finally and we had the party after all. man was the chlorine high. i didnt test it before, but after the party (and everyone saying it was burning eyes) and you could really smell chlorine, fc was in the low 20's. i turned the chlorinator down to 25% and lowered run time by...

yesterday morning the water was looking pretty good. fc was still at 25 and i raised to 34 while at work. came home yesterday and pool was really clear. fc had dropped to 18 yesterday afternoon before i got home, it was sunny all day. i bumped it bsack up to 24 last night. wake up this...

ok, an update. i came home hoping the fc hadn't dropped below 24 before i could add more bleach. fortunately it was 25 when i got here this afternoon. i added more to bring it back up to around 34 as i did yesterday so that i know it can ride through the night again and maintaint 24 and above...

I realize that for the slam process, but for the OCLT I thought it needed to be off. I asked last night to be sure of what to do, noone responded to that though I will leave it on from here on and just turn off the SWG if I do another OCLT

Alright I left the pump off overnight. Checked the fc this morning and it had dropped to 25 (from 34). I added 2.5 jugs bleach to bring it back up to around 34 again in hopes that it wouldnt drop below 24 before i get home this afternoon. I turned on the pump as well and have the chlorinator...

thanks guys. see my post i added on if you havent already, i got the extra powder in and got a reading finally. please advise your steps for me tonight and/or in the morning considering what i know now. i am going to give it all i have until party time, just hope i dont have to cancel. thanks!

one quick update. i added a little extra powder and it turned red. i tested the fc and got 33.5. maybe i added a little to much. first, am i ok here? and second should i run the pump overnight and turn off the chlorinator or just leave it all off tonight? thanks

ok. so last night i came home and added 6 jugs of 8.25% bleach 121 oz. (according to p/s to get my FC up to 24). i let the pump run all night and day today and when I got home i tested the chemicals again. here are the results. TA - 85 FC - 18 CC - 0 PH - off the charts assume due to high fc...

Ok thanks, I will bring her up to SLAM value tonight and post back. So you think I should just do this FC increase once at this point?

I will do the OCLT tonight and bring it on up to shock level when I get home just in case. I am still learning this so bare with me, but wouldnt I see some CC in my levels if that were the case? I been checking FC and CC religiously for a while and the CC is consistently 0.