Recent content by ICSVortex912

It's a very, very old pool with no fancy bells/whistles: Jandy VS Flopro pump; Triton TR-100 sand filter...and that is entirely it. No heater, no black magic, etc. There are two skimmer baskets in the pool that are plumbed together, and a main drain at the bottom of the deep end. It's a 20x40...

I passed the OCLT last night/this morning: 11PM: FC - 10.0 7:30AM: FC - 9.5; CC - 0.5 ...however, the stubborn cloudiness persists. Should I maintain SLAM levels, or dial back down to regular FC levels?

Couple of other questions: 1) Is there a particular brand of DE that works well? I typically just order things off Amazon. I see in the overview page you linked that I should just avoid garden DE. Is there something at a standard big-box store (e.g. Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards) that would work...

I will pick up a silicone-based lube for the O-ring today and give that a shot. For what it's worth: I tried the pour-water-over-the-lid trick to see if that temporarily resolved the air-in-the-pump problem, and it did not.

I slowed the pump to 1,500 RPM. The pressure on the sand filter is now about 7 psi. There is still air at the top of the pump, and I can definitely see air bubbles coming out of one of my returns, but not the other. Here's another video of the pump, this time running at 1,500 RPM:

Clean filter pressure is around 18 psi. I am typically backwashing at around 24 psi. At the beginning of this process when the water was still a very dark green color, I was having to backwash every day. The last couple of days the pressure has really not been climbing at all. Thank you for...

I do not get a lot of air out of the returns. Can you spell out "checking all sources of air on the suction side" in more detail for me? Explain it to me like I'm a third-grader, since when it comes to my pool I essentially am. I'm in the process of getting CYA up to 30+. If you look closely...

I'm at my wit's end here, folks, and desperately hoping for some help before I rage-sell my house and move somewhere with no pool. Here's the scoop: I have a ~35,000-gallon plaster pool. When we opened this year, our pump was completely shot, so we replaced it with a Jandy VS Flopro. It took...

...there isn't one! My pool (gunite) is currently drained for some refinishing work, and I wanted to replace the hydrostat. I popped open the main drain and, lo and behold, there's not one in there! Should I be concerned? Does adding a spot for a hydrostat simply require that a hole be cut...

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks!

Correct. Here's a gnarly photo of some of the tile that hasn't been ripped down yet, just for clarification.