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Like the title says, I got a new liner installed today. I had a leak over the winter so the pool store moved me up from end of April. It's 65 and sunny. I have about 2' of water in the deep end. I did the 5-gallon bucket test and I determined it should take about 55 hours to fill up. The...

I have vinyl liner that is getting replaced in the spring. It has a fairly substantial leak. For example, about two weeks ago, we were expecting snow. I have a mesh safety cover and I read that you should keep the water within 12" of the deck so that snow will not overly stress the cover. I...

At the end of the season before last, I got a small tear in my liner. I thought I fixed it with a patch, but when I opened this past spring, my pool had mostly drained. There was about an inch of water in the shallow end. The deep end is 8 feet when full. I could see rings around the deep...

As I said in the other post, my pool drained over the winter due to a small leak I thought I fixed at the end of last season. I fixed that and I am in the process of filling it back up, but the liner seems to have strunk. It's pulling across the corners. It's hard to see, but there are two...

Owned the pool for nine years... never knew what this thing was.

I was cleaning my pool at the end of last season using the brush. The brush head came off the pole and I accidentally put a small hole in the liner with the edge of the pole. I bought a patch kit that day and tried to patch it. It was very hard to patch because I had to swim down to where the...

I've had an ongoing issue where the pressure in my DE filter will slowly rise over the course of a week or two. When I backwash, the pressure goes back to normal, but then in a week or two goes back up gradually. Normally, my PSI after a backwash is about 10 psi or 11 psi. By about a week or...

Is it normal for my pump basket to drain water when the pump is off? In other words, the pump runs fun and the basket fills up with water when it's running, but once it's off the water level inside the pump basket drops. So the next morning, the water in the pump basket is down a few inches...

My Polaris 280 was working fine, but it never went into the deep end, where all my debris usually accumulates. I adjusted the jet on the back of the unit to see if I could get it to go into the deep end. Now it seems to go into the deep end, put it gets hung up like this every day. Pretty...

I moved into my house about six years ago. When opening the pool in year three, I couldn't get the motor to start for the pump. I took it apart and was able to manually free the seized shaft, and got it going again. It lasted a few more weeks, but eventually gave out. I bought a new one and...

I have a DE filter. In past season, I would backwash maybe once per month. For some reason, lately I've had to backwash every five days. Basically, I notice that the water pressure out of the return jets is diminished. When I check the filter, the pressure is up to 24 PSI. After I backwash...

I have a vinyl pool. On the steps, are two aerating return jets. As shown in the picture, there are adjustment valves that I believe are supposed to control how much air comes out of the jet. These don't work though. Instead, when I unscrew them enough to allow air in, water just comes out...

Hi everyone, I opened about a week ago. The pool was pretty clear and just a little green on the steps. I added five gallons of 12% chlorine and got the pump running. Not much debris thanks to the safety cover... mostly dead worms. I ran the Polaris and that took care of most of the stuff...

My old booster pump motor on my Polaris 380 was on its way out last year. It was very loud and probably ****** off the neighbors. I disconnected it to see if I could fix the issue, but everything was so rusted, I couldn't even get the screws off of the backplate. The motor was built in 1999...

We bought the house and it came with a pool (which we love). In light of the mild summers we've had in Southern New Jersey, I was contemplating adding a heater. I noticed this piece of pipe coming out of the ground and I think it's a gas line, but I'm not sure. Here's some pictures:

I went to my local pool store to get some stuff I needed for opening my pool. I use liquid cholorine and they have pretty good prices for the 12% stuff. I also use tri-chlor pucks when I'm away or when I need to shock the pool to help keep my chlorine levels up. I also use them to raise my...

My pool gets good sun all day long, but I've been toying with the idea of adding a heater. Last summer, we had a really mild August in the North East and we really didn't use the pool because the water was too cold. Also, a heater would add some weeks to swimming season, which would be nice...

When I click on a forum, I only see one or two pages of posts... what happened to all the other posts? How do I make it so I can see older posts?

Hi everyone, I wanted to add some speakers for my backyard patio/pool area. I had a stereo receiver inside my family room and I ran a speaker wire outback to power two outdoor Bose speakers. This setup has a couple of disadvantages, mostly the volume control. I'd have to set the volume...

I have a 30k vinyl swimming pool. The liner is pretty dark and it gets full sun all day, so it's generally pretty warm, but I'd like to bump it up a little if I can. I came up with this idea: Basically, just attaching a PVC pipe to the return jet, and then running that up to the pool deck...

[PICTURES DOWN BELOW.... PLEASE SCROLL] Hi everyone, I've had a vinyl pool (30k gallons) for about two years now. This year I noticed some white, powdery substance in the bottom of the pool, and on the steps. It's like a really light colored brown or whiteish. It's very fine, so if you go...

What's up everyone? I created an App that allows me to control my pool equipment from my smartphone. Right now it is set up to allow me to do the following: 1. Turn the pool light off and on; 2. Change the color of the pool light; 3. Turn the fiber-optic lights off and on; 4. Turn the pool...

I just opened yesterday, and I had to add DE. I took the filter apart to clean the grids, so I was starting fresh. The filter states that 4.5 lbs of DE are required. The prior owners left a bag of DE, which also had a 13 oz. plastic coffee can. I have read online that coffee and DE have...

I opened my pool this weekend. It's only my second time opening and the first time after going BBB last year. The water was pretty darn clear immediately after removing the cover. I took the cover off Friday night, and then Saturday I got the filter equipment going. By Saturday night, the...

Hi everyone, This will be the second season opening my pool. I bought the house with the pool, so I didn't know how long it had been since the prior owners cleaned out the DE filter (i.e., take it apart and soak the internals in a cleaning solution for 24 hours and then reassemble), so I...

Hi everyone, Still new to this... my pool pump motor died a week ago. I finally got a replacement on Monday, installed it Monday night and ran the filter overnight. Suprisingly, the water was still crystal clear with no signs of algea, even after having the pump off for almost a week. I...

I posted a thread on here yesterday about a problem with my pump motor. When I opened my pool this year, my pump wouldn't start because the shaft was seized. We just bought the house in September. The outlet for waste from the multiport valve is situated directly above the back of the pump...

Hi everyone, When I opened my pool this year, the pump wouldn't come on. When I turned the power on, the motor would hum, but not actually start. I took everything apart and found that the shaft was siezed. I used some vice grips and WD-40 to get it spinning again. I also noticed that the...

Hi, I opened a couple of weeks ago... everything looks great but I just want to get some input on my numbers. I think they look good: FC - 5 CC- 0 Ph - 7.5 TA - 80 CYA - <20 I'm still confused about my CYA becuase I've been using tryclor pucks since last season and I think the prior...

Hi everyone, I opened my pool last week and I've done my first test after opening. I added 5 gallons of 12.5% sodium hypochlorite and I have two floaters in the pool with four pucks in each. I did my first full test tonight and I'd like comments on the results: FC - 18 ppm CC - 0 ppm TA -...