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I haven’t used my skimmer in years. Today I wanted to start messing with it and see if I could get it running. Like the previous years everytime you turn on the skimmer, all the return outlets totally stop returning anything. The system just hums and all the water drains from the pump and then...

I veered off my usual path this summer after I drained and filled my pool. Tried to save money and time by buying shock and tablets. My water was always hazy and where I live it gets filled with dirt and leaves quick. I didn’t vacuum for a few days and almost overnight my pool was green. I ran...

Hey everyone I have had some helpful comments before on my in ground that my mother in law was wondering if I could post on her behalf? She has a pool that she has measured is 4ft deep and 17.4ft wide. She is unsure of how to properly work the sand filter. It’s nothing I’m use to so it’s hard...

Looking for serious help :( definitely going to be selling our house because we can’t afford the pool. That being said we need new plaster and tile work and just had a baby so paying that baby off first is priority. What do you do when you can no longer maintenance the pool? We drained the pool...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if I could get some advice and help on my numbers. I have spent most the summer catching up and I think a lot of it is my plaster is bad and so algae has so many niches to grow in. We had several bday pool parties recently and my walls are getting that dust and I...

Hi everyone I have a question? I needed a pool light and to test my cya (ran out of the solution.) So I had to go to Leslies, I figured while I was there I'd get my water tested. Well so I've been a little lax here and there but my numbers seemed to be ok and match up with Leslies and between my...

Hey everyone I'm back!!! After I got the hang of my pool everything was pretty much smooth sailing during the summer....until I got lazy the middle of september :( my pool got what appears to be black algae :'( so I know it's bad but is it horrible to just cover the pool and start over next...

Hey everyone new pool owner. Thanks to TFP I got my pool up and running beginning of June and have had no problems for 2 months. Then I went on vacation!! I came back to weird black/dark green spots around the pool and yellow dusty Algae on the steps etc. So my first plan is to vaccum and brush...

Hey everyone I did a full round of tests this month and am off...I got back from vacation and this is what the tests say FC 1 CC 1 Calcium 450 Alkalinity 260 CYA 50 PH 8.3 I plugged things into the pool math calculator so it tells me what to do but I kind of want to know what to tackle first...

HI EVERYONE as you just read I'm a new pool owner. We bought our home because we needed property, well the property included a pool which my husband and I didn't want with having little ones but we just couldn't pass up the acreage. Well I was pretty excited till my husband's job took a plummet...