Recent content by wahoowa

I will look into this. What's the best way to get rid of calcium if that is the issue?

I think it's calcium also. Guess I have to go find another pool store. Any way else to test this? I have a simple test kit.

Outside one of me returns, i notice on the bottom, white, paper thin flakes on the bottom. Look like pieces of paper, most very small but some almost an inch square. Chemistry is fine, I have checked with my own kit and the pool store. Had suspected calcium but pool store said it was fine...

My pool is uncovered, had been properly winterized and we finally have thawed after about 3 solid months of frozen. I noticed that one of the rubber plugs had fallen out (sitting on the bottom) and the water level has risen above the return. My guess is the water got in to the return at some...

Sorry, don't have any numbers. Pool is winterized so I am sure the numbers aren't good plus it's also frozen so not much hope getting a sample. The area I am speaking about is exposed so I can see the damage.

This is a great article and really I think hits the nail on the head as far as what happens. To answer the other quesions, I don't get smurf blue hands. When i grab a handful of leaves that were settled on the shelf, I noticed blue and white speckled grit mixed in. In most cases, where I...

I did not cover by pool this winter. It's a new pool so this is the first winter. Did winterize and dropped the water just slightly below by baja shelf. During the course of this winter, as I have gone in to scoop out some debris, I have noticed that in my shelf area the diamond brite...

We got about 5 inches of rain yesterday. My water level is about one third of the way up my coping. My pool is still open and pump running as normal. Not closing for about another month. Any reason to lower the level?

I ran my heat pump over the weekend substantially for the very first time. It was in the mid-70's with low humidity. I noticed a pretty constant drip for most of the day all around the edges of the heat pump. Is this a leak or the normal condensation you get during the heat exhange? I...

Anyone else have any thoughts on this? I am definitely leaning towards the no cover route at least for one year. I have a pool maintenace company that says for $300 they will come about every month over the winter to add very strong liquid chlorine and use a portable vacuum to suck up any...

Correct, I am going to winterize. Just add shock and stir it up once a month when it gets cold enough (mid to late November) when algae shouldn't be much of a problem. Don't intend to run the pump.

Didn't really surmise this. What the pool person said and I also talked to the guy that installed the pavers is I would need about 50 anchor points and tubes. Over the years, with movement, etc. these have a tendency to stick up and the brass covers sometimes don't go in correctly. This...

Originally, I was fishing around to see if I should get a mesh or solid loop-loc type cover for a new pool. I just met with a very respectable company that really only services commercial pools and opens and closes residential pools. They suggested I don't do a cover at all. Here are their...

I forgot to hook back up my Pentair Legend vacuum last night. My Easy Touch runs the booster pump for 3 hours in the middle of every night to clean the pool. Is that an issue that there was no vacuum hooked up or did it just blow extra water out of the hole for threee hours?

I am about 2 months into a new pool. Have yet to clean my cartridge filter. Pressure is maybe up only 2 psi since my starting value. I was told I would need to do this monthly. With all the dust from the new plaster, I figured initially it would be much more. I haven't opened it up to...