Recent content by scott.lopez

In two weeks you'll be in that hot tub, gotta wait for the junk to get out of the water for two weeks, or else you could have heater problems. Looks fantastic. Make sure to check the chemicals daily, our pool company person who was responsible only came out a couple of times. The Ph was very...

bleach is typically in the outdoor department with the pool chemicals. Usually along that wall shared with the store. If you found the 2 pack of acid, that's usually where it's at. Wal-mart is my fall back plan as well. --> "Plus we had an issue with our spa valve, and when we would shut the...

One other note, I don't know if it's the measuring tool you are using or not. It shows that CYA should be between 70 and 80. If I'm not mistaken, that's for a salt water pool. For a chlorinated pool (using bleach) it should be lower. I keep mine between 30 and 40. As CYA gets higher it can...

Lowes typically sells chlorine and acid by the case (3 pack). I don't think the price is any cheaper for buying the three pack, but it's definitely easier to move and store (vertically).

If the Nature 2 is free then I'd get it. If you go on vacation for two weeks you might want to use the pucks to keep the chlorine up. I don't use the mineral canister, I just let it run out of the chemicals and left it alone.

One other note, gocubs418. Did they install the Savi LED lights? We had to have them all replaced, started changing colors rapidly, it's a known issue. There is a 2 year warranty on the lights. The older ones required pulling the entire wire through, the new ones only require replacing the...

Depending on how old your heater is, they have a new bypass for the 400K heater. Increases the life of the heater and also reduces the amount of head loss. So far it's worked great. It works with the JXi heater that you have. JXiVFKIT VersaFlo Bypass Accessory Kit for JXi Heaters

I preferred to push the pool builder harder on quality then on timeline, it was winter time. I kept repeating to them that I wanted whatever it took to get in a low maintenance, energy efficient pool. I had a good relationship with the pool builder throughout the process and feel that we have...

They will have to tear down parts of the fence to get their vehicles into your yard. They took down the entire section of fence along the alleyway to get the excavator and bobcat in. Also, 3 months is very aggressive, they started our pool in October and finished in late April. My philosophy...

They will have to tear down parts of the fence to get their vehicles into your yard. They took down the entire section of fence along the alleyway to get the excavator and bobcat in.

it's worse than just being an engineer. I'm an engineer who has worked in quality control. :)

Your welcome. Most of the info I provided to you was provided to me from other people on this site. Just passing along their knowledge.

-Jandy 60 SqFt DE Filter with Sight Glass on Backwash line to P-Trap We bought the biggest filter we could find to keep the back pressure down in the system and also to reduce how often we have to clean the filters. We also went with cartridge filters and have had no issues with cloudiness in...

My 2 cents worth. We steered away from SWG, it definitely has it's advantages but we discovered after talking to our neighbors that the salt does damage to the coping and grout over time. SWG is easier to maintain, that's true. The chlorine pucks are a no-no in our household unless the CYA...

Hopefully you got the iAquaLink. If you did, make sure to get the 8 device version (it's a software upgrade that can be applied over the internet). We used the 8 and hooked up a stenner chlorine and muratic acid pump to the control panel. Over the last two months we've tuned in the Chlorine...