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I just had a pool company install brand new equipment for our pool, including a new Pentair Intelliflo 2VST pump, new Pentair SWG, Pentair cartridge filter & new Jandy IAqualink 2.0 upgrade for the VS pump. When installing the new pump, "per code" he installed a new 20amp GFCI breaker for the...

We've been looking at buying a new pool heater & variable speed pump for a while, but haven't gotten around to it yet, and now suddenly our old DE Filter housing started leaking from a pin-prick type crack in the lower part of the housing, as well as another place just below the clamp. Maybe it...

I'm trying to open up my AquaRite Turbo Cell, but neither end just won't budge using hand force. I bought a $10 strap wrench on ebay to see if that would work, but the strap wrench just snapped off. Any ideas on how to open one of these things? they're obviously way to big to use like a pipe...

Hey, I'm looking at buying a Reel & a 16 mil solar cover, and going through the jungle of trying to figure out which reel I need... Anyone have experience with using the Horizon Signature Reel with a 16 mil Solar Cover? I obviously want one that's sturdy enough not to start sagging in a year or...

We currently have a non-working gas heater that didn't work when we bought the place last summer, the model of the non-working heater is a MiniMax N7 400,000 BTU unit, 80% efficiency. So for buying a new heater, is the best option cost efficiency wise to just buy a new gas heater? Since we've...

We still don't have a working heater for the pool (that's for a different topic) so we don't have any historic costs to go by, but after looking at info about heating costs we were slightly shocked to hear that heating alone even here in the Los Angeles area would cost around $2000 or maybe even...

I just got the new filter grids assembly I ordered, since basically all of the old grids were torn somewhere, and with cracks on the manifold... Now the problem I have is how much DE should I add when installing the new grids assembly? I know that it says to add 6 lbs of DE in the filter...

Hi, This newb could use some help identifying what these valves are for, and if they are something I need to worry about what position they are set to? Here are some pics showing the ones I'm wondering about... The valve actuator on the left has half a label beside it that seems to say...

Hi, I'm new to this forum, and could use a little help from all you pool experts out there :) Long story short basically what we would like to know is if our DE filter backwash is connected to the sewer line, or if we need to connect a backwash hose and where? We just bought a house with a...