Recent content by peggypie

Yup! That's been done.. had the water up and running (with extensive help from the pool store) as chlorine for about 3 days. Then the electricians showed up. :roll: The ONLY ONLY ONLY saving grace to this entire disaster is that I live in New Hampshire.... where we have had NOTHING but rain...

Thanks for the tip. I tossed some shock in there (water was pretty green and gross looking) and now it's a cloudy blue. This is still just a half-pool worth of water. I think I'll take your advice and use the water I have....assuiming the niche repair works. I have the hose in there now and...

Great article! And thanks for the reply! THIS is what happened with the light http://www.troublefreepool.com/new-light-niche-trouble-t15013.html

After a series of unfortunate events, I'm going to be re-booting my pool. I had a light, a heat pump, and a SWG installed and the light caused a ton of problems... the pool has not been used since. The 3 feet of water left in my pool are so swampy that I'm going to drain it entirely and just...

Thanks for the reply! Yup... we shop vac'd the dirt out of there and cleaned it up. We plugged the conduit with a cord plug. If our repair works, water won't even reach the conduit but it was helpful for keeping the cord in place, and if we have to replace the light, having a plug we can...

I put "trouble" in quotes because it was human generated. My circa 1978 pool had a light at one time, that had been patched over and a new liner covering it. The conduit was still there so I decided, that since I was having an electrician come out to wire up a new heat pump and SWG, to have a...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum. I was a lazy pool owner who let my pool guy take care of everything until the day he got a better job and now I'm on my own! I had a Bacquacil pool... ugh. Switching to chlorine now and my Aqua Plus SWG is on its way. I also really want a heat pump. I...