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So tonight after coming back from a Greek festival with the wife, she noticed that the pool was LOW on water. She then yelled at me that we have a leak, I'm thinking, small leak no big deal right?, WRONG! There was a whole in the liner in the transition from the wall to the floor about 3-4...

an even cheaper method, knee high pantie hose from Walmart..

the easiest would be to get 2 straight slip connectors and 1 45 degree connector and cut about 2-4 inches on each side of the existing 45 degree connecter and splice in the new section there.

Is it me or is the website unusually slow today? I have gotten error messages ranging from, system resource limit has been reached, to network busy, when I have tried to access the website today...

I didn't cut the nipple; after reading some reviews on the amazon website about the gauge that I purchased, I removed and reinstalled the rubber plug on the back and its now reading good. apparently this gauge is known for its error reading at first if the pressure outside and inside the gauge...

I just did it this weekend with panty hose. what I did was after putting the CYA into the panty hose, I tied a not at the top of the CYA to prevent it from coming up. I had some extra PVC for the by-pass when we clean the filter, and a few 90 degree fittings. took the long (5 foot there about)...

Purchased a new gauge (0-30PSI) for my pump filter (cartridge filter). after installing it and placing the pump on high, the gauge only reads 5psi. when switched to low the gauge reads zero, not sure if the gauge is bad or what as I don't have another gauge to try out in comparison. when high...

I thought we had some left over (we used these for skimmer socks) but couldn't find any. just grabbed a pair of full panty hose from the wife and will be cutting one leg (at a time) off to use. thinking about suspending it from PVC pipe in an upside down "L" shape strapped to the return line...

I tell my kids that there is no type of jumping/diving from anything at all into the pool (24'AG) I don't want excess water to get out and do not want to run the risk of the pool was getting out of round (any type of buckling). No vote as well

here is a cheaper alternative to the Amazon Hayward union, (and in my opinion far superior quality): Union at Lowes. These are the exact ball valves that I have on my plumbing installation and absolutely love them.

I know this is an old thread but I am looking to do something similar to this this summer. just a few questions: 1) what size drill bit was used to make the holes (if you can remember) I know I can start small and always go bigger with the drill bits, just don't want to have to waste time with...

I have read on here a few threads about using the "Sock Method" for dissolving CYA into the pool. my question is does the type of "sock" matter? i.e. panty hose vs. cotton sock? does one dissolve faster than the other? Thanks for the help Eric

is that wire a single strand or multi strand? do you have a gas line any where near it?

did the PB tell you what was wrong with the bolts? was it the head of the bolt that was stripped or was it the threads that were stripped? If it was the head of the bolts, with a little finesse one can either use a wide rubber band (covers the head of the bolt) and then place a socket of the...

I understand that the picture you show has all switch's labeled as "20" amp; a quick Google search found this on Home Depot showing this as a 110/220 circuit breaker with the outer 2 being 20 amp each and the inner 2 being 30 amp each. So if the literature that you show here is the same as...