Recent content by Mule

Hello all, I am planning to move my pumping station onto my old hot tub concrete pad under my screened porch. I would like to do it myself, but time is short these days. I had a guy come out to give me an estimate. He said that he would not put my filter on the pad because there isn't...

The robot was just wishful thinking. I was pretty doubtful. I've been watching the other post with jaja. I should have my new pump today: Pentair Superflow 2sp, 1.5 HP. Hopefully, on high speed, that will operate my vacuum and I'll send it to waste. that should get me moving in the right...

Hello TFP, Thanks for the posts on my other post. I know, too long of a post...so I'll keep this one short: I have about an inch of algae on the bottom of my pool. I am going to order a robot (probably the dolphin premier, expensive!) to help keep the pool clean. Do you have any...

Thanks Dave. I'll try the deep clean. I was thinking of putting a tray of some sort under the filter so that I could drain the water away from the filter during a deep clean. I need to do more investigating on the skimmer. I think it's a long run under the concrete pool deck and I'm not sure...

Thanks for the replies! I will have to look at replacing the pool deck to get all of the plumbing to work again. That seems like a big investment. I accidentally posted this in the "Just Getting Started" forum first. I couldn't figure out how to delete it over there. Thanks again for the...

Hello TFP, I am going to move my plumbing under my screened porch. And I am want to upgrade some of my equipment while I’m at it. So that leads to some questions. My pool and equipment (Northern Virginia): Pool: dark plaster, 17‘X39‘X4.5’ with two small sitting areas (about 25,000...

At the top of the overhead shot in the last post, you can see my discharge line going into corrugated piping leading out behind the back.