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Just curious if anyone is familiar with this pump leak and if it can be repaired (easily) or do I need a new pump. There is no noise or other problem with the pump except that it leaks. I'm not sure but I imagine this is the original pump so it is probably over 10 years old. Since I posted...

I test every couple of weeks but the chlorine has been a bit high, but stable, for quite a long time--don't know what the loss day to day would be. I just remembered that the pool has a "Pool Frog" that the previous owner installed. I never use it but I'm wondering if could just insert a...

I'll be gone for 8 days and the pool is completely covered with a solar cover. Since this is a salt water pool should I turn it up all the way for a couple of days and then just turn it off before I leave?

I just noticed a leak at my pool pump--a couple of drops every second. The problem is I'm going out of town for a few days and don't have time to have the pump replaced so my question is--is there any problem if I just turn it off for about 10 days without doing an other measures or is there...

I normally do my own testing but I was going to Leslies yesterday so I took a water sample and had them analyze it. The chlorine is a bit high since I broadcast some a couple of days ago; overall, the chemistry has been stable over the last few weeks.

I have an in-ground 14,000 gallon pool with an American Pool Supply System salt water generating system, model PSC 3, with a Resilience A5 salt cell. The system, I believe, is about 5 years old and worked property when I bought the house--about 1 year ago--until about 4 months ago. At that time...

I'm still vacuuming some residue but for the most part the water is clear. This is what I vacuumed up today after not vacuuming for a couple of weeks: I don't recall the exact steps I took when adding the chemicals but I believe the hardness was added on a different day. In any case, the...

That's what I was affraid of...oh well, it's getting cleaner every day... Thanks...

I vacuumed up a bit of residue today, fortunately it is getting less and less, and then dropped it in some muriatic acid--and this time it did fizz! The previous time I only used vinegar and it didn't fizz at all. So, would it be possible to put enough muriatic in the pool to dissolve the rest...

Unfortunately, the package got tossed in the garbage a while back. I let some of the residue dry out for a while this morning but it is only a small amount of powder and it didn't want to fizz. Thanks,

It was about 5 years beyond the expiration date when I put it in the pool and it has been in the water over a month--couldn't those two things cause it to become degraded enough not to fizz? I tried to call Arm & Hammer's technical department but was cut off by the first person who answered the...

There is no white residue when rubbing the wall. The baking soda was left over from the previous owner in the baking soda package but it had been opened, and re-sealed--like a zip-lock. It had the appearance of baking soda, but who knows if something else had found its way into the package. I...

I put some vinegar on the residue I collected today but nothing happened--of course this stuff has been in the water for several weeks so it is pretty water logged. The baking soda was added fast, I believe I just poured in the entire 5 lbs all at once. The residue I get when vacuuming is...

It does appear to be baking soda but I don't know how to tell for sure. I've been vacuuming every day for a few weeks and it is a lot less cloudy now--at first I couldn't even see the main drain or the bottom of the ladders. Well, thanks for the help, I'll just proceed on vacuuming and will...

Here are a couple of photos I took this morning--this one is before and after vacuuming: [center:2e636v7d][/center:2e636v7d] This is some of the residue I vacuumed up: [center:2e636v7d] [/center:2e636v7d] I actually do have a Taylor kit so I took the following readings: FC 2.5 TC 2.0 CH...