Recent content by sbelgrave

hey guys, we just came home from a trip and must have had a power outage. the hot tub water was freezing, mode was set to 'ICE' and i pulled off one of gaskets near the heater and the pipes are frozen solid. ;-( I drained the hot tub of the cold water and am juts funnelinghot water from the...

Thanks man. You Too. !

Hi everyone We closed our above ground pool (16 x 32 oval) in September and just this past week we noticed that it seems like the winter cover is really really low. I'm worried there's a leak somehow in the pool and am not sure what to do. We just had our first frost thisw week too. I know if...

Thanks Jason, That was about the only thing I could think of to do (but was doubting myself if another kind of fitting existed, guessing not). Will definitely get going on try that. Thank you. -Scott

Hi everyone, So I've recently been considering hard plumbing our pool lines to utilize the beneftis of placing some valves at the skimmer and return as well as the advantages of using Unions to quicky attach/detach the lines. I'm in the beginning phases of looking at what parts I'd need to do...

@ewkearns, I had looked at those on Lowes but the measurements obviously seemed a bit off (with the closest on Lowes looking like it was (2" Outer Diameter, 1" Inner) ) I'm guessing that inner diameter would be too small to try and stretch another 1/2". I just keep thinking too myself ...

haha! the first one you put down there from amazon is 2400 bucks! priceless. :) As for the other link, i had found that, but it looked like the min lengths were 100ft rolls unless i'm reading that wrong. i'll go back and check again in case i'm wrong.

Hi everyone, So the braided tubing that goes between our Hayward Pump and Sand Filter looks like it might be time to be replaced (about 12 years old now and cracking around the edges). What is baffling me is that when i type in any of the follwing terms on google : 1.5" Braided Tubing 1-1/2"...

Hi everyone, So if by chance you're one of the nice people that have been helping me after my stupid mistake (in short, i accidentally put a ton of CYA in my pool and had to drain it almost entirely), i have successfully filled my pool back up after 2 weeks of slowly doing it through our well...

Yeah, i actually just did a test in a 5 gallon bucket. (tell me if i'm thinking is wrong at all here but.....) I put 2 gallons of the pool water in. Then i filled it with 2 more gallons of fresh water. After doing this i checked the CYA levels and found that it was now measurable. It was at...

Thanks guys. Much appreciated. now to go make a big puddle next to my pool ;-) SCott

Ok. I think i discovered the problem. A few days ago we replenished our dropper bottles for #0871 (chrorine test) and #0013 (cya test) (this is a taylor K-2006 test kit) and i believe we wrongly poored #0871 into #0013. While i can't be certain this is the case, it appears likely, as i just...

Ok. Will do . thanks, Also , here our my readings Chlorine : 7ppm PH : 7.5 AK : 90ppm CYA : 0 Calcium Hardness : <10ppm I mean, they're not ideal but nothing seems glaring so far unless i'm mistaken. Will get to work. And thank you again. Scott

Hi everyone, I was just curious. I have a cloudy pool right now which has read 0 for CYA. My pool is 10K gallons and usually 2 gallons of liquid CYA does the trick to get the levels back up. What i'm confused about is that a week ago i put in 2 gallons and the reading remained 0. I figured it...

Thanks for the info. Blockage. I hadn't considered that. I had been able to get a good prime going for a the pump for the few minutes I had it working and was attempting to vaccum the bottom of the pool but I'll check to make sure. And thanks for alleviating my worries about the caulk. I really...