Recent content by trashball

Just to follow up for anyone with the same problem. The slime bags sort of worked, but not really all that well - I found every time I had to pull them out to clean them a lot of Crud would get released back into the pool, so it seems sort of pointless. I'm not sure what solved the problem, I...

Ha! More like a foot a day, it seems... :wink: I should have said take the cover off to do the bucket test, assuming they don't mind it uncovered for a few days...

Did you try the bucket test? pool-school/leak_detection Half an inch doesn't seem like much to me, but then I'm in Arizona.

I have tried DE in the sand filter, it helps somewhat. Vacuuming does work when you have it in backwash position, my concern was that if you vac while in backwash you may get material stuck on the wrong side of the filter media (on what would normally be the clean side), so I don't think it is...

Do you mean get a multiport valve and attach the slime bag to the waste line, or run it on backwash and attach the slime bag to the waste line? I was looking on their website and it isn't really clear how those things are attached, it appears that some attach to the return jets and some attach...

Hello, We recently had a dust storm and there was a fair amount of fine sand dust that had settled to the bottom of my pool. It has been a struggle trying to get it all out, I am having a similar problem to djunified from this post...

Thanks, Bama. I should have said that the pool/pump aren't new, we just bought a house with a pool a few months ago. It seems to run better than before now, so I guess it is fine and I was just being paranoid.

Hi everyone, new to the forum and new to owning a pool (as of a few months ago), but I have been poking around here a lot to solve my problems and it has been very helpful so thanks. Anyways, my pump started making an odd rattling noise, I checked for air leaks and couldn't find any. So I...