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Hi all you pool experts. I have a 13' round Louisbourg treated cedar wood pool that the upper binding strap rotted out and broke this week. It was manufactured by Techno Bios in Canada, but I am unable to find them now. I believe they have since gone out of business. Leaving me with the...

Hi folks, I recently acquired a spa (for free) and want to connect it to my pool system which is mostly pentair products intelloflow pump, mastertemp heater etc. I am wondering which of pentair automation systems would be most suitable for this project. What I am looking for is a valve actuator...

I am getting ready to replace my wisperflow with an Intelliflow VF. the contractor was looking for specifics about the wiring, pentair manual is vague. They say to put it on a dedicated circuit but give no details beyond needing 230 v. does anyone have some specific criteria for this job? :?:

I am of the understanding from reading on this forum that the average life of a swg cell is around 5 years. I'm here to write an obituary for my original pool pilot DIG-220 cell which was installed April of 2005. making it a whopping 7.5 years. I am pleased with it's performance. Replacement...

My pool is fairly automated and indoor so maintenance sometimes gets neglected. I did a cartilage filter cleaning, screen cleaning and have a unique solution for lowering the total Alkalinity. I add Muratic acid to drop PH to 7.0, luckily I have a digital PH read on my Chemtrol, then I have a...

I came home today to the pool not running. Breakers popped, they do that sometimes. I turned them back on and the heater had no power, heater is direct wired. tried to push buttons on heater to no avail no power to heater. Went away and came back later, breakers popped again, they were warm...

Please help! OK I have been putting this off,I have a serious problem with falling PH levels in my pool that has been ongoing for about 8 months or so. The acid pump has been shut off for at least 6 months. I have learned my lesson with leaving the PH at 7.4 to 7.2 having had to recently replace...

Just checking to make sure I need the formula for calculation of gallons in pool. I have been going on it being 4900 gal. Pool is 13' round by 4' deep. : :?:

what about adding borax to a pool with no cya level, been thinking about it for a while. I have an indoor and we removed the cya that was added at the beginning to get the chemtrol to work. Recently can't seem to not get the PH up above 7.2 I have had the acid pump off since I brought the TA...

I wasn't sure where to post this. I returned recently from vacation to find piles of Crud on the indoor pool cover, up to a foot away from the rail :evil: I expected to see a drowned cat at the bottom. Some teratorial dispute with my indoor cat I cleaned it up, washed off the cover and turned on...