Recent content by lhayes1976

Hanging my head in shame. Yes, guilty as charged.

I opened our pool on Sunday, it was the worst green swamp it's ever been. I put three bags of shock and the next day it was a foamy mess. I'm not a big numbers person, but according to the strip I use, everything is good, except calcium hardness is low. I added no algaecide. This is only from...

I'm insulted and I do not understand the animosity towards me. I am not an expert and was relying on the experts on this site to give me some answers. I was concerned about what the pool store said and was asking for nothing but advice. I have been hit with nothing but condescending remarks...

Why would I not trust a pool company's test results? They run it through a computer, would it not be more accurate than a test kit?

The CYA is 40

They're a pretty reliable source, not a L@#lies. They have built and installed pools for many years--50 in fact. I actually called another installer as well, and they pretty much said the same thing. They assured me that the chlorine level would not stay high very long because of the algae in...

After couple weeks, our pool is still green. It is a 20x40 vinyl liner pool. The pool store said levels look good--except for chlorine--zero. She recommended that we use 6 gallons of bleach and let filter run for few hours and to floc. I'm worried this much bleach will fade liner. Should I be...

I think I may a major issue here. I have a fiberglass pool. Most of the season I've had a purple ring around the water level. The pool store told me to add Pool Perfect. My number seems fine, I've had some trouble keeping ph up, but everything else is good. I only use strips. This past week...

We found it-- it's more of a small spray. Really ticks me off. This heat exchanger is only four years old. I keep my chemical levels in check and we bypass the heater most of the summer. Wish there was a way to repair--errgh! We've had the pool open for three weeks and still haven't been in...

Our heater is leaking. We took the cover off and inspected the heat exchanger. There is no leak at the top. We haven't taken it entirely out of the heater yet. My question is, can we still use the heater if it is leaking? We are not going to replace that heat exchanger. The part is just too darn...

I'm sure it's the heat exchanger and we will not replace it--to darn expensive. My questions is--Can you still use the heater if it's leaking? My thought is just heat the pool and then bypass the heater after it's heated.

We've had our Viking pool for 4 years. In third year we noticed a bulge on the floor bottom. This spring, there was a crack that was causing a leak. Viking sent people out and they repaired it. This year when we went to close, we dropped out water level to air out lines, plugged them and brought...

We had the leak detection service come out and the source of our leak is a cracked return jet. We were told it was caused from the groung settling. They want $1200 to fix it. They said they would have to bust up concrete to get to it from the back. My husband has it in his mind that this could...