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My pool had been neglected for about 6 months due to various equipment and pool company issues. Trying to turn it around now. After shocking , the water has cleared a bit and I see stuff at the bottom, leaves and dead algae etc. whats the best way to remove that? I dont own a pool vacuum. I have...

My pool was very green. And I did not have the time to turn it into blue, hence hired a pool company. Agreed to an estimate of $275 to turn-around the pool and $95 for DE filter clean. The guy showed up when nobody was home, went ahead and dropped 15 pounds of shock in the pool and cleaned the...

I am trying to diagnose a problem. My pool filter pump is continuously running. I suspect the relay might need replacing. In order to find the compatible relay, i need to determine the part number of my jandy controller, see picture attached. I have a pool, spa , light, blower and propane heater...

I have a salt pool with DE filter. I run the filter everyday for 7 hours pool is clear, but lots of green algae in the spa. Its been around for 3 weeks now, brushing and running filter pump is not clearing the spa. Some of the algae stuck to the bottom of spa turned black, i suspect it is due to...

I got a new aquarite goldline SWG kit installed. But i dont see the salt level shown on the controller unit inside my house. It shows temp fine. How to make it show salt level , so i dont have to go see it on the outside SWG display. Below is a picture of my indoor controller

I got a pentair mastertemp propane heater installed last week. Its 400k btu model number 460737. Its seems to be working fine. Its connected to the main aquarite panel. When i keep it in pool mode on my aquarite control panel, turn on heater from the aquarite. The heater turns on , but the...

I am preparing to open and clean my new DE filter. The model is Pentair 180008 fns plus. This is my first time attempting this. The filter was installed last month by a pool company. I have the DE cleaning tutorial, is there a tutorial specific to the pentair FNS model? Actually a utube video...

I got my DE filter and heater replaced today. I asked them to install two jandy 2 way valves so that i can bypass the heater if i want to. Please see the pictures below and tell me if they have done it correct. The installers barely spoke english so they were not able to explain to me. Also do...

My 12 year old heater, pentair minimax, model 250 dv, input 250000 BTU stopped working. Fortunately i had a home appliance warranty which covers pool equipment. They are providing a new heater of the spec below as replacement. My question, is this a good model? Or should i get cash from them and...

My pool was turning green and SWG was saying no flow. FIlter had not been cleaned for a year and we got a ton of pollen leaves few weeks ago in Austin. I called a pool guy to clean my filter, he opened it up and reported that manifold is broken and said manifold and all grids need to be...

Just noticed leaves in the bottom of my pool. The polaris motor works, and the water is pumped into it, but the polaris wheels are not turning and its barely moving on the bottom of the pool, because its being continuously dragged around by the blob thingy fitted inline. Any ideas what is wrong...

Costco is selling this product for $99, and has great reviews. Want to check with experts here if this is good. Can i use in my salt pool ? Chlorine-Free Sun Shock Pool Purifier Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have looked all around the pool, cannot locate it. I saw something but that is the shutoff for sprinklers. Is the green knob on the bottom left in the picture the pool shutoff. The box is the pool heater Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Since yesterday its showing check salt and inspect cell lights continuously ON. And its showing salt level of 2.6. It used to be 2900 just few days ago. I have pressed the diagnostics button and held down for 30 secs. Also pressed it several times to reset the unit. Powered off and on. Added a...

I disconnected some of the connectors on my polaris to do some cleaning and repairs. Now i need help in putting it back. Two questions . 1) please see attached pic. I am having a hard time connecting the two pieces together. I put it in as far as possible, but it comes undone after two days of...

The coping and deck around my pool is made of limestone. The stone is disintegrating at a rapid rate. I reduced the water level to below the coping, so there will be less water splashing on to the stone. But in a few days the level went back up, this is texas 100 degree days with no rain. Why...

I did some tests using the TF100 kit today K1000 test Cl 1ppm Ph 8.2 Chlorine drop test - no chlorine, fc 0, cc 0 TA 180 My tf100 was purchased in july 2015, during the year i did not use it because i had a pool guy , i recently took over managing my own pool. Is the tf100 kit results valid...

I searched for cleaning procedure here, could not find. Can someone point me to it? I am going to be doing it for the first time Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Something weird happened yesterday, i noticed that my pool pump was running all day. It completely ignored the programmed 6 hour run cycle. I went outside and tried to turn it off from the panel, switched it from auto, to service. Turned off pump switch. But no matter what i do pump continues to...

My pump refuses to start today, it has been running fine for over a month. I tried turning it on from the service panel as well. It was hot when i touched it. How do i go about diagnosing the problem ? I am about a month old to owning a pool. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My pool water is reached up to the brim , the salt water corrodes the soft limestone around it. How do i reduce the water level ? Also my spa is nearly empty. Something is wrong ? Help, what should i do ? Will running the pump help ? Anybody have a link to the users manual for aqualink RS6...

Hey all, I bought a home which has a pool about 4 weeks ago. I found out about this site last week and this is my first post here. I have read the rules and poolschool etc, Created my signature which might need tuning :-) The pool turned green around 5/1/2015. It was fine before that. I did...