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Hello All, We continue to have issues with losing prime in our pump. I had posted about this earlier and we thought we found the problem, but it appears that we have not. It is now time to call in a professional to take a look and let us know if we have a pipe leaking somewhere, a bad pump or...

Hello, my fellow Pool Friends - I had a weird issue and I was hoping someone might be able to give me some ideas before I dig up my entire pool. About 5 or 6 years ago we replaced our pool pump, filters, valves, etc, and also switched to salt water. The pump is a Pentair IntelliFlo VF 3HP pump...

Hello Everyone - The time has come to replace my valves on my pool lines and I was looking at the Jandy NeverLube valves. Unfortunately it looks like they only offer these valves in a 2 1/2” to 2” size. All of my piping is 2” on both sides of all of my valves. Is there some reason that Jandy...

Well, it has been awhile since I have posted. My boys and I rebuild our entire pool system a few years ago and I wrote all my own software to manage and maintain it. We converted to SWG and never looked back. Now years down the road I have hit my first problem. In the last five years we have...

We have a 33,000 gallon IG plaster pool and it has been years since it has been resurfaced. It is now starting to flake off all over the place and the wife and I are talking about getting it resurfaced. We are looking at either plaster again or something like pebbletech. Was wondering if anyone...

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Hey Everyone - Some of you may recall that while using a pool company to care for my pool I had a runaway alage problem about 18 months ago. After testing the water a 100% drain and refil was completed, a new SWG system from AutoPilot installed and everything seems to have been going great. We...

I will admit I have been remiss in keeping up with the pool. As a pilot, I am gone a week at a time and it seems my kids don't have the time to sweep and run the vac like they have been asked. Now that we are getting ready for summer (91 here in AZ today) we want to get the pool ready to go...

I have a Steiner acid pump that (for the most part) works fantastic. I am using the line that came with the pump to tie into my pool plumbing. But I am having trouble with the tubing that they provided. Once I install it, it is only a matter of a week or so before the lines start to crack and...

Hey Everyone - I thought I would share some information about a project that I have been working on with our pool here. Basically I have designed an automatic pool fill system that monitors the level of our pool and then fills it automatically when needed, but based on some very specific...

There was another thread here the I read (from quite some time ago) about adding a makeup water line directly to the pool plumbing as opposed to using a hose. In my case, I have a hard line already plumbed from the house to the pool for filling, it was installed with the pool and there is a...

Hello Everyone - I have installed a new TotalControl SWG system. The system utilizes pH, ORP, and flow sensors to monitor and maintain pH (utilizing a Stenner Acid Pump) and Chlorine utilizing a RC-52 cell. The system in default total control mode utilizes ORP to monitor and maintain FC...

Hello Everyone - I think I have this figured out after replacing our single speed wisperflo with a new intelliflo variable flow pump. I want the pump to run for 12 hours from 6pm to 6am. The first hour I want the pump to run at 60GPM to operate my skimmers, the next ten hours I want to run...

Hey Everyone - OK, so I just finished the installation and startup of our new AutoPilot SWG & Chemical Controller system. We also installed the Pentair IntelliFlo 3HP Pump. This system monitors Salt, ORP, pH, & Temp and controls the power output to a Stenner pH Acid Pump as well as an RC-52...

Hi Everyone - I recently drained and refilled my pool. It was empty for about two days between the time it was drained, cleaned and then refilled. Today I noticed that on several of my steps, I am starting to see the plaster 'chip' off the steps. Is this a major problem? Is it time to...

Hello Everyone - We are getting ready to install a new AutoPilot SWG and chemical system next week. In the process, the piping for the filter and pump (we inherited it from the previous home owner) looked really weird and hokey. Reading posts here (have you lost your head), as well as the...

We have just drained and refilled our pool and we have the Taylor 2006C test kit, but I opted to run down to NPS and have the water tested. We are just at the level now where we can start our pump. NPS claims that their automated test system is very accurate, it is computer based instead of...

Hey Everyone - Due to some problems with our water chemistry we went ahead and drained our pool. At the same time, we replaced the sand in our Triton II TR100HD filter (all 600lbs of it) and also ordered a complete AutoPilot SWG system with automated chemical system. The SWG was sized for a...

Hello Everyone - Due to problems with the chemical (CYA) balance in our (very) green pool, we decided on a drain and refill. We are completely draining it. We live in Phoenix and three difference pool companies told us that there were no worries about the pool "popping" out of the ground since...

Hello Everyone - We are new to the TFP forum and found it because our 'pool company' somehow allowed our pool to go green. We pay them monthly to come out and take care of the pool and when it went green about a month ago, nothing they (or we) have been doing seems to have helped, so I started...