Recent content by PKDallas

My current pump screams at me every time it turns on. It's gotten so bad my neighbor actually came over to check and make sure everything was okay. The pump label has worn off completely, but in the right light I think I was able to decipher the markings. It is a Hayward Northstar Pump, I...

Sitting here after 18 days in a row over 100 degrees and with no end in sight, I'm dreaming of colder weather and got to thinking about what would happen if we ever did get below freezing here again. Can the liquidator freeze over in the winter? I don't close my pool, as we use it year round...

I'm just a little south of you in NE Richardson. We have a Foley pool in our new house that was put in by a previous owner. The pool is fantastic, and is almost exactly what you mentioned you were looking for (about 38'X18', free form gunite with spillover spa, 6' in the middle, about 3.5' on...

I've not ordered from aquasupercenter, but I can back up JasonLion and say http://www.Poolsupplyworld.com is a good place to buy from. I've also bought from http://www.poolpartsonline.com and http://www.americanbestpoolsupply.com. Americanbest actually had the best prices I found when I was...

I'm going to be installing my new liquidator this weekend and had a question on where to put the output line. I know it needs to go before the pump, but should it go before or after the automatic actuator that converts the flow between pool and spa mode? If I put it before the actuator, and...

http://tftestkits.net/SpeedStir-Magnetic-Stirrer-p56.html It stirs your drops into the water for you, making your test results more accurate.

I just wanted to give a great big thank you to all of you on this board. I've been reading through the various different threads and the pool school for the past month or so and I finally got up the guts to fire my pool company today. TFP finally helped me realize that pool chemistry isn't as...

The junction box is actually about a foot above the water line. The picture just makes it look level due to the angel. The leak is about a foot off the ground, and below the water level. What would I use to fix this? Simple silicone caulking bead around the bottom of the coupling as a...

Yes, there is a light in the spa. I have never heard of a flooded conduit. Anything I need to worry about in repairing this?

I noticed today we have a pipe behind our hot tub that is leaking. It's strange, in that it has two pipes going up about 3 feet off the ground, and is topped off by a box containing what appears to be a GFC reset switch?!? The switch only has the reset and test buttons, no outlet plugs. The...

On my complete 180, quite frankly, I don't trust my pool company, and to say I was annoyed with them would be an understatement. When they "sold me" on the system, it sounded too good to be true, so now that I'm finding out it is, I'm not surprised at all. I've been doing more reading on the...