Recent content by jimingreen

I had a similar problem when I opened my pool a couple years ago. I was beating my head against the wall looking for a suction side leak or a blockage. It turned out to be a tear in one of the internal gaskets in the pump. The impeller could not develop pressure because of the tear. I bought a...

And for cutting that slot, a wet saw is great if you have one on hand. If you don't, then you can do the cut with a grinder and a grinder diamond blade.

Well if it so cloudy that you can't vacuum then that is probably why your pressure is going up so fast. The D.E. gets loaded up with all the organics that it is filtering out and then the pressure goes up. It sounds like you need to slam your pool. I used up a 20 lb bag of D.E. this year opening...

Are you filtering out a swampy mess? When I opened the pool this year, mine went from 18 to 25 overnight when I was slamming and filtering it out.

That seems way high. After a backwash and new D.E. my pressure is at 18. My flow starts to slow when my filter gets to 20. When slamming my swamp this season my pressure went to 25 and I had almost no flow. Are you sure the gauge is working right? What was your pressure usually at before the new...

The manual... https://www.hayward-pool.com/pdf/manuals/ProGrid-DExx20.pdf I just recently cracked my Nautilus DE filter open and found one big tear and a bunch of little ones starting. I did a temporary patch over the holes until I can buy new grids. There are some posts on doing this if you...

It is a noticeable improvement. Being as cheap as I am, I would have never done an "optional" chemical. It was already in the pool when I bought the house and it took a bit to figure out why our pool looked and felt so much better than anyone else's. I actually figured it out through TFP and...

Oh sorry for the confusion. You mentioned Borax somewhere way early in your post so I thought you had read up on it's use to put borate in your pool. Borate is an optional enhancement. Not a necessary one. My reference to 50 ppm is for the recommended borate level. Borax raises ph, the muratic...

I'm not sure what the pool guys had you putting in your pool before. When I bought my home I found that my pool water looked spectacular compared to others. The previous owner had no idea what the pool guys where having them throw in. I bought the LaMotte borate test strips and found that my...

You mentioned at the beginning of your post about Borax and was advised to hold off on that for a bit. If you are interested in added excellence, then it sounds like it's time for the borax and muratic acid.

That's a beautiful pool and back lawn. It would probably be cheaper to keep the pool open for that period of time than it would be to carefully fill it in and then years later carefully dig it back out, make an unknown amount of repairs, etc. I would be inclined to insist that it be kept open...

We have 50 ppm borates and I believe our dogs actually prefer the pool water instead of their own water dish. They have learned not to drink it directly in front of us but they still drink it every chance they get.

Recently I was convinced I had an underground suction side leak so to confirm it before randomly digging up the lawn, I rigged up a DIY pressure tester. Glad I did because I found that it was not the problem. You may want to do the same. My suction leak turned out to be the internal impeller...

Good point. Their shipping is slightly more than Locke. It would be about $80 savings over the name brand. Hmmm. Something for me to ponder.

Here it is... http://www.ebay.com/itm/271470879776?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT