Recent content by hyder710

Thanks for the advice. The big pool store in my town isn't always the most helpful. I had a longer than necessary learning curve as a result of them and this web site really helped me through that 5 years ago. I found a local pool guy that works out of a van and has little overhead so his...

Alright I just bought a brand new 3hp intelliflo for $850 shipped (my local shop wanted nearly that to put a new single speed motor on my 10 year old pump). I'm not doing any automation and at that price I should be able to find salt water generator as well. Just to be clear if I set my speed...

Is it necessary to go up to 3hp for cpst savings or would a 1.5hp vs o the same thing? I'd like to save some money Sim i can upgrade a salt system.

My pool pump finally died last season and I'm buying a new one for this season. My question is what power VS should I get? My pool, heat pump and current pump are listed in my signature. I have been reading a ton about the savings between VS and single speed for awhile now but still have...

Yeah. I have done that. It's in the liner. I think I found a few holes in the liner today. When I used the food coloring only stream would appear to get sucked/stick the rest would drift away. Does that sound about right?

So I am still leaking water and am about to spring for a leak detection service. Does anybody have any usefull tips for locating a liner leak?

If you dont mind me chiming in I agree with the idea of not mounting your wood in concrete. Use the brackets or build it stout enough that it wont move on accident. It can be hard to hide where the electric comes into the pergola at. I recently bought the wood for a pergola but due to a pool...

Does the vaccumm actually stick due to water in the liner? Did you confirm that?

So yesterday afternoon I checked the water level and it leaked, plugged the skimmers and it leaked. Plugged the returns and skimmers and still leaked. I'm thinking it's my vinyl liner now. Any advice on locating the leak? I have food coloring and am going to try looking for it sometime this...

So It leaked last night with the pump turned off and nothing plugged. I just plugged my skimmers and have them both turned off at my pad. I am only running the main drains at the moment. I'm going o check in 6 hours and see if it has leaked. If it has then I will plug the returns as well...

So I have turned off my pump for the night to see if the pool continues to leak. I have turned off all of the valves at my pad. If it continues to leak i plan on plugging my skimmers to ensure that they aren't the culprits. Again that's only if it continues to leak. After that I will leave...

I am still in my first week of pool ownership and so far it has not been a blast. I began noticing this morning that I had lost 1 1/2"s over 48 to 72 hours. I refilled the pool and lost a 1/2" over 6 hours. My pool has approximately 1000sq ft of surface area. My pump has a slight leak but...

I bought a tone from the local albertsons. Spent 80 bucks and got 10 182ozs and 15 96ozs and a case of bud lite. The clerk looked at me funny. I said it wouldn't be a party without beer.

Thank you all again. I am currently buying a ton of liquid bleach. The generic kind. From my calculations it is much cheaper than chlorine from the pool store.

We paid $120 for the mineral part on the frog and $100 for the chlorine bacpac:/ I got the cya stuff down but now you bring me to a different question. Could I leave the frog thing going and slowly bring my cya levels while using liquid bleach for my initial shock? What you said is funny...