Recent content by Neddy191

I have plenty of south facing roof area that is unobstructed. My wife likes water temps around 80 minimum. In late may when we'd like to start using the pool our average temps are highs around 80 and lows around 60. In years past our average water temp around this time was low 70s. Would it...

I live in central North Carolina and have a 20x40 pool. My wife would like to extend the swimming season for us and the kids so she contacted one of the local solar companies about a solar heating system. They sent us a quote based on measurements the took from satellite photos of our home and...

I have a 20x40' in ground vinyl pool in North Carolina. I think its something like 40k gallons. I'd love to be able to use the pool during winter and have been contemplating installing a heater. Can anyone give me any idea what my cost would be to run it for the cool months?

My pool has been open for just about a week now. All was doing well until yesterday when I noticed that I was having air bubbles coming from my returns. This hadn't been the case earlier in the week. I did backflush my sand filter and clean out the basket in the pump (Hayward Super pump)...

been having alot of hot days and rainshowers in the afternoon. It looks like I lost about 1/4" more from the pool than the bucket the best I can tell. My water is free as I'm on a well.

I'll do the bucket test tomorrow but I'm sure I'll have a leak somewhere in the plumbing. What can be done about it? Is it worth digging up all the plumbing to find the leak when its not obvious where its coming from. Is there something I can put in there to plug it up without digging it up...

I converted to a Hayward SWG when I opened this spring. I put 800lb of salt which got my salt level up to about 3400. Well, my pool's been up and running for a month now and my salt level is down to 2700 which is the lower end of the recommended range. Is the salt level dropping faster than...

Installed a SWG (Haward aquarite) when I opened the pool last week. Haven't fired it up yet as i've been getting the water balanced. Everything looks good according to pool school article except TA. Mines a bit higher at about 150, above the 60-90. What sort of problems will that cause? How...

I'm installing a Hayward SWG when I open my pool later this week. I think need to order a new tf-100 because I left the one I used last year out in the shed and I don't know if leaving it in the freezing weather over the winter will make it inaccurate. I see there are 2 options for salt...

Last year the water was a little too cold to swim in for me except in the dead middle of the summer. I want to have a longer swim season this year. We've been looking at solar covers. We just had our new vinyl liner installed and finished filling from our well yesterday (the ground water is...

The pool was already full when I bought the house. Used the TF-100 to test it and keep it sparkling clear all summer. The old owner used the shock it every week or 2 and use pucks the rest of the time method. The pH was pretty low when I first started testing - a bit below 7 if I recall...

I'm on well water. I had the water tested for iron when I moved in last year and it was essentially 0. Any other metals to worry about?

We're getting a new vinyl liner put in our pool today, which of course means the pool will have to be refilled with water. What order should I adjust my parameters? I used the BBB method last year, my first as a pool owner, with no problems at all.

I'm a new pool owner, bought a house with a 30k gal, vinyl IG pool this spring. I've been using the BBB method all summer with no problems. Well, now I have one. Before I left for 5 days I brought the pool water up to shock level with bleach. I put some 3" pucks in the Hayward...

I'm going to have lots of questions about the new pool. I spent last night at the new house, so no internet and couldn't get access to this forum until now, back and old home 8 hrs away. I did manage to go by WalMart and get 19 lbs of borax (pool calc said I needed 21lbs to get pH to 7.5)...