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Bought a new Polaris 360 with the 1 1/2 inch hose. Its constantly knotting itself up. 1. I tried laying the hose out on the deck for a da to bake the shipping-induced coil of the hose. No luck. 2. I adjusted the length as per instructions. 3. I added extra swivel joints. 4. I used a LOT...

OR SO I THOUGHT! Drained my pool for the first time this spring. I've lived here a decade and never took it down to zero. Last year seemed to present more chemistry problems than usual, and I had some ugly stains on the liner that bothered me. So, drained it. I washed the liner with a weak...

I bought a new Polaris this spring because my old one was ancient and had given me over a decade of service....along with multiple repairs to keep it alive. Imagine my disgust when I came out and found it behaving as a skimmer. Sure enough, air under the pumps lexan cover. I ran the hose...

My Hayward has been plagued by excess air this summer. This air is an annoyance since it messes up the buoyancy of my Polaris vacuum. I added fishing weight to the monster and it fixed that....sorta. - I tried running water over all the fittings on the intake side of the pump to check for...

I have an old Goldline system. No idea how old it was here when I bought the house ten yrs ago. In 2014 I replaced the Circuit Board after the thermister cracked. I found the part online for a third of what Hayward wants for one. I used part No. GLX-PCB-RITE (at least that's what's on the...

Just shut down my pool. When I took the Hayward apart I noticed that there was a lot more DE on the top of the filter stack than in years past. The "lungs" were covered, but not really uniformly. Too much DE? Coriolis? Fetzer Valve askew?

I have found several places where I can pay an idiotic amount for an incredibly cheap plastic hose. I'm trying to find someplace more sensible. Any suggestions?

I have a million-year-old Polaris 360 and it more or less quit last season. I decided to dig into it and figure out what was going wrong with it. Use this diagram for parts... Polaris 360 Pool Cleaner Parts Only one wheel turned on my unit. I mistakenly assumed It was the drive wheel and...

Old system. This is how it was installed when I bought the house. It leaked a little then, it leaks a LOT now. I am not sure this stuff is still available. I took it apart last year and tried to fix the seal, but it's shot. Questions..... 1. Can I just replace this thing? IOW - are...

Each season after I add DE, I have an issue with excess DE on the bottom of the pool. Yesterday I hooked up the vacuum to the skimmer and sucked most of it up. Not a big deal. But here are my questions... There are TWO pipes coming up out of the ground that form a T with one pipe flowing to...

~8000 gal SWG inground pool. Hayward DE filter. Passive solar heating.....This is my 5th season with the pool. I just installed a new T-Cell. Leslie's said that my chlorine was a bit low, so I tossed a puck into the skimmer. For the first few days, the pool was crystal clear though it did...

SWG pool. My chlorine generator died late last year and I waited a bit to purchase a replacement. In the interim, I used liquid bleach and chlorine pucks. New generator going in as soon as the water warms up a bit and the chem is right. My water never seemed to get out of whack, but my liner...

I just cut an old and leaking threaded fitting off of the intake side of my pump and replaced it with a pump union. I used a bit of thread tape on the threads. There was some old residual sticky sealant in the pump housings female threads. Unfortunately, my fix was no-fix and I now have a...

Opened the pool yesterday (pushing the season as much as possible since I am sick of winter). Today I find a fair amount of DE on the bottom. I took the brush and swept/pushed it all into suspension in the hopes that the filter will eventually take care of it. Is this typical? I had...

Greetings Gents, it's me again with more foolish Questions.... Here's my dilemma. My filter pump is leaking on the pressure side, where the water is pushed to the filter. There appears to be a threaded PVC pipe which threads into the pump housing. It looks to me as though a new piece will...

Greetings gents. I just returned home from a week abroad. Much to my chagrin, my pool was a mess and the filter was not running. 1. Tree ship had made it past the skimmer basket and the filter basket. I backwashed and a ton of it came out. 2. The strainer at the pump has a ton of air...

My pool has passive solar heat which consists of 9 panels on my roof. The system is plumbed with a diverter valve which can be manually or electrically operated to either send water directly to the pool, or to the heaters where it then flows down and into the pool. When I send the water TO the...

Salt pool. Hayward DE filter. This is my 4th or 5th closing. When I broke the hayward down for closing I noticed a few things that chapped my backside. 1. The color - BROWN. Now, I THINK that my well water has turned and I am now pumping iron or some other schmutz into my pool through...

So gents, here is your next pool puzzler. You may recall that I just added Pro-Team Metal super stuff to deglaze the nasty tea-colored stains on my nice pearly white steps. You sleuths deduced that my water had iron in it and you were correct. The pool is now gorgeous. Some very faint...

Small, 8-10K gal in ground Salt Pool. Hayward Goldline. Well water - clear right out of the hose but I don't dare drink it. My well is shallow and there is a pond behind my house filled with runoff from a golf course and 50 lawns. OK, I am a lousy pool-boy. Plus I travel. As such my...

So, squeezie and I are schlepping along in Homie D's pondering the height of their ceilings and how much concrete they poured to make the place...and wondering where the golly they put the POOL SALT. Turns out, it was in the plumbing section, just downstream from the spigots and what not...

Here's my dilemma/dilemna - There is an excessive amount of air leaving the filter in my pool. I am not referring to the four corner jets, but rather the main exhaust flow from the filter. The large diameter hose which drives the pool vac vents a whole mess of air. It never did this in the...

Greetings gents. I have an old Polaris unit (two wheels on one side, one on the other) that has lost its sucking mojo. It has the following issue 1. It glides around with its butt up in the air. Only the front wheel touches the bottom of the pool. The drive wheel spins and water fills the...

Stupid question for all ye experts - It appears to me that there is a certain black-magic regarding DE and backwashing. In other words, how much DE should I add following backwash? My initial fill is 7 scoops. After a few hours of runtime, the filter was clogged and I backwash for approx 30...

The large clamp on my filter is nasty corroded. Just a few years ago it didn't look too bad, but it was pretty new then, so there's that. My question, is funky chemistry to blame? Or, is this just the nature of the pot metal beast?? I just winterized and I'm planning on sanding the (golly)...

Greetings to all and (golly), on my planet the summer is drawing to a close. No more Cohiba's while afloat in my personal, pleasure pit. I got a ton of leaves, etc in my pool while out of town this week. My "monster" isn't functioning properly due to a suction leak in my solar heat system...

Greetings all, My pool liner has a dozen stains which weren't there 6 months ago. I have picked at them with my finger, and can feel no difference from the non-stained areas. They are a mid green color and are grouped at three sites. My pool water has remained mostly crystal clear the three...

OK. I bought the super duper test kit but I have yet to master its use. I travel A LOT and when I get home I typically hoist several and just jump in the deep end. Please excuse my lazy deportment. My T Cell failed, so I bought a rebuilt unit (T-15) from Salt Solutions in FL (If I...

Ok Gents, here's your stumped FNG question for the day. Background- 8-10,000 Gal, inground SWG pool in Virginia Beach. Hayward 4800 filter. New pump motor last summer. Passive solar heat on the roof of the house. Just popped the cover and vacuumed the majority of crud. Brushed the vinyl...