Recent content by Tpow

Can you see it now? If not, it is a silver round cap/lid thing that is flush with the concrete deck. It says Swimquip on it with a duck insignia. Held on with three flathead screws that I cant get off.

Hi. I’m hoping someone can tell me what this is? It is located underneath my diving board, directly above where our pool light is located. The light is about 3 feet down in the deep end. I’m wondering if this is a service port for the light? The bulb is out and I want To change it but I dont...

Help! My Pool guys have said that the black areas in my inground concrete Pool won’t go away because the algae that grew over the hottest part of summer, has actually stained the concrete. At first I took their word for it, but on some areas I can actually slide a finger across the black spot...

Turns out it was the o ring, they dont make them anymore so it had to be ordered and took a while to come in. Also the plastic bubble on top of the filter where the pressure gauge and air release valve is located is also leaking HEAVILY. So the pool tech is supposed to take apart those...

Whats a spider gasket?

Me too! Now we have to address the leak. We turned off the pump/filter yesterday and went to sleep. There was no apparent additional loss of water overnight, whereas we would usually lose about an inch or two with it running. It seems that there is likely something wrong with the pump or filter...

Thanks for the info guys! We have one skimmer. The valves are for the main drain and the skimmer. We did have to get the leaf thing to get most of them out, but it turns out that we have a leak in the underground pipe that the waste water discharges from. It leaks a little bit of water all the...

I'm not sure. I know there's a drain in the deep end, but we cant get to it. There are two valves on the pump near the filter, on my first post there's a picture, but I don't know what they're for. We have discovered what appears to be a significant leak in one of the underground pipes that's...

I wish I had a robotic pool cleaner! We have a manual vacuum that we attach to our telescoping pole and hook it up to a hose and down into our skimmer. It doesn't seem to be doing a very good job picking up the silt and other fine particles at the bottom of the pool. The water is looking good...

We have the test kit already. It's looking better out there today. I think that we need a pool cleaner now to clean the stuff off the bottom and sides of the pool that the lead vaccuum can't get.

Thanks, I'll try that next time. - - - Updated - - - I think you all are right...they're saying now that we need to shock it again, just like last time. There's no way that's right. I'm just going to follow the instructions here exactly and hope that we get it right. No way are we allowing the...

Yes, we were shown all of that except we can't vaccuum to waste because our filter is so old it doesn't have that option. Filter and pump replacement will happen next season. Ours are so old and they leak a little bit. We're not losing water anymore, which is good and the pressure stays between...

She the water was tested, the pool guy said that we needed to add the algaecite to prevent more growth. The pool was almost black when we started this process. He added what was supposed to be enough chlorine to help kill the algae and then clear the water up. The crystal clear is something...

Ok so the chemicals were put in yesterday. When the water was tested, the ph and alkalinity were great. There was 0 chlorine though. I put in the shock, algaecite and crystal clear stuff. It went from looking like a dark green/black swamp to this. Did I do something wrong or does it just need to...

I havent, but I will go read it now. Thanks! one more question: are we supposed to keep our pump running constantly? We have to refill the pool almost daily because the water level keeps going down. I'm wondering if it's because the pump is on 24/7.