Recent content by mwwhited

It is an alcohol based chemical that was developed to reduce evaporation on drinking water reservoirs so it is very safe. I use it on an indoor pool so I can’t speak on the wind effects that others claim but I can say it does cut down on some evaporation and heat loss. I would still recommend...

As a note is it is a requirement to run a pump 24/7 for an indoor pool that has some of the plumbing ran outside to a heat pump without a bypass. In the winter if the pump wasn't flowing the line and heat pump would have frozen. (There is a reason I bought a new pump and reworked the plumbing...

They chemistry was perfect on the pool and it would still get cloudy at the drop of a hat. (it's an indoor pool so there isn't even much biomatter falling in.) It might have just been poorly maintained before I bought the house but the sand was a mess. Either way I don't like the wasting...

After just pulling a sand filter and replacing it with a cartridge I am going to call B.S. on never having to replace the sand. The filter was a mess, cake all caked up and the sand partials were like tiny rounded off beads. I tried several times to clean the sand filter by soaking it in a...

I just finished installing a Hayward Ecostar to replace my 1HP pump. I run the pump 24hrs a day on an indoor pool so it will quickly pay for it's self. Even running the ecostar at a faster turn over then my previous pump I use less power. And when I'm not using the pool I can use it at low...

Updated the plumbing (decided to stick with 1.5" after all) the water looks amazing with the new filter :)

Excellent, thanks!

I am installing an EcoStar VSP and a C3030 cartridge filter. The original pump is 1HP (I'm changing because the EcoStar should use a lot less electricity and will allow me to control the flow rate.) As for the check values I thought they were required based on different plumbing diagrams...

I bought a new pump and filter for my pool and was planning on cleaning up my existing plumbing while everything is torn apart. This is for a 24k gallon indoor pool. My biggest question is around the fact I have a heat pump and a gas furnace for the pool, can they be in series where the...