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I am interested in having solar pool heater install in the Houston Texas area. Pool size is 15 x 45 ft If anyone in this area have had success in finding installer in this area, please share their name and number.

I called Pentair Tech Support. They told me to call an electrician to measure the current across the power center. What a bunch of crock , please make note next time when you shop for equipment. This is the kind of service you get from Pentair.

Help, I recently took out the SWG cell and went thru the cleaning process as written per instruction. The SWG is about 4 month old. After re-inserting the cell, there was no power to the cell. So I checked the fuse and it was blown, went out and bought 4 new fuses, 250v 10amp from Radio Shack...

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I have a Pentair DE filter, 80 SQ ft.and Variable pump, Pentair VS 3050, 22000 gal pool, inground. After backwashing the DE filter, how much DE media should I add back ? It seems that the pressure on the filter gauge varies with the speed of the pump, so which speed would accurately reflect the...

One thing that you could try is flip flopping the wires between the air temp sensor and pool temp sensor to make sure that it is a bad sensor and not a bad board. HD

But really, mostly what you need is a big bottle of POP. Pool Owner Patience. Think about how much swirling it takes to mix a couple drops of reagent into 25ml of water - and then think how much bigger your pool is. It will take a while to circulate and equalize, cause you can't pick it up and...

The above article does not have anything about pebble-sheen pool, so should I treat it as a plaster pool but the only difference is that I could swim sooner ? What about all the chemicals ? What should I try to bring into range and what should I avoid ? Thanks for all your help.

Thanks for such a quick response, however there are differing opinion.

Rectangular pool about 22,000 gal, gunite with pebble sheen water temp 83 F Here is my result after a few days of adding Calcium Plus, Chlorine, MA, CYA 5/27/10 FC 4 CC 0 pH 7.5 TA 140 CH 160 ( just added 3 jug of Walmart HTH Calcium Plus yesterday) CYA 30 Should I add more CYA, MA and wait a...

The pebble tec came and did the pebble sheen, here is the picture. As you can see , this about 6 hours later. Some of the wet area area drips from the return pipe but some of the other are not. Is this going to be a future problem ? If water can leak into the pool, then water can leak out of...

If you have plants crawling on the pergola , you have have fun cleaning out all the leaves that will be falling into the pool. I like the sail idea, but make sure your homeowner association is not going to make you take it down.

Too much seepage can be a problem, but they will not plaster if that is the case. Don't lose any sleep over it; they've done this before, and they have to warranty it! You're in good hands How much is too much ? There is no puddle at the bottom, only the adjacent gunite is moist. Some of it...

The pool builder does have a point about the 1.5 " eyeball connecting to a 2" pipe, that is if all he ever use is 1.5 " eyeball. But whoever is going to do your plaster or pebble tec at the finishing stage, they should have different size eyeball for your pipe. My 2 cents.