Recent content by jwardon

Here is a photo of the lid.

It's a Zodiac MX8 as you suspected. I haven't had the home for long and the wrinkles were there when I got it. PH is currently a 7.7 and alkalinity is at 100, so hopefully we've stopped adding to the damage.

Thanks. I tried rotating counterclockwise. It turns but the knob runs into the side and keeps me from turning enough to get it out. Thoughts?

Hi all, I just bought a house with a pool and am having a little difficulty adapting to the new equipment. As far as I can tell the pool does not have an overflow drain. Worse, it doesn't seem to have a spigot to drain the pool. What do you recommend in the short run to drain the pool? What...

I have an old Hayward cartridge filter and a 1 HP Hayward pump. I cleaned the cartridges four days ago and everything seemed to be working fine. This morning my wife told me the pool was making gurgling noises at the sweep and some of the jets. She turned off the pump and when I got home from...