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How long after adding muriatic acid should I wait to retest the Ph? I waited one hour after adding 2 cups 3 oz and there has been no change in the Ph reading. I am trying to lower TA by adding acid to lower Ph to 7.0 and then raising Ph with aeration. Current levels are: CC: 0 FC: 3 CYA: 50...

Hello, We have noticed a very light seepage of water on two of the pipes leading from our paramount system. What can we use to reseal that area? And is that all that we need to do? Thanks, lnmnmns

Hello everyone. We bought our house with pool already installed. It did not have a pool slide but looks to have been "plumbed" for a slide. There is a skimmer cover located at the deep end side of our pool that when you take off the cover, you see a 1 1/2" water pipe staring at you. When...

Hi. I opened our pool cover with no problems a few days ago. Also closed it with no problems. I went to open it today and it opened about 2 feet then stopped. It closed from that position with no problems; however, now it won't open at all. The motor doesn't sound at all when the key is...

Hi, I have successfully blown out the 6 returns in the sides of my pool walls and my two skimmers. I also have 3 floor returns (pop-up from the floor) and a main drain. With the the first two floor pop-up returns, I saw a few bubbles come up when I blew out those lines; however, with the 3rd...

Hi. We have a six-port valve paramount floor system. Can anyone help me with regard to how to blow these lines out? We have blown out and sealed the returns on the sides of the pool and skimmers, but don't know where to connect the shop vac to get the floor returns and main drain lines blown...

I know that when you buy a replacement pump motor, it should be replaced with one that has the same SF (service factor)...BUT what happens if a motor w/a 1.65 SF was replaced with a motor with only a 1.25 SF anyway?.... Thanks to questions that were answered here, I knew exactly what type of...

We are endeavoring to replace our pool pump motor ourselves but cannot get the impeller off of the old pump. Is there a trick to this? We are holding the shaft end in place while trying to turn the impeller to the right to "untwist" it. However, we can't seem to get a good enough hold on the...

We need to replace our pool pump motor (pump is Dura-Glas II, model # P4R6E-187L). Our current motor says it's 1hp, 115/230v, 1.65 SF, single speed, 3450 RPM...I have found AO Smith motors QC1102 (energy efficient full rated) & SQ1102 (standard full rated) & USQ1102 (standard uprated)...all are...

Our gas heater gave out at the end of last summer and needs to be replaced. My husband is suggesting that we get a heat pump instead of replacing the gas heater. Does anyone have any recommendations for one or the other? We live in central Indiana and usually swim from May to the beginning of...