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I am trying to make some fittings so I can descale my Pentair MasterTemp heater. I was wondering if anyone knows if the nuts for the union are a proprietary thread (like the Pentair salt cells), or if they are a standard thread that I could pick up at Home Depot. If they are proprietary, are...

I am having issues with my Pentair Mastertemp 250. When I opened, it started up and ran just fine for a couple of days and then I shut it down. Air temps have been a little cold for swimming until recently, so I did not have it running until today. I noticed that it was not on and saw a...

OK. So we were gone for a week and I figured no problem with the cover and SWG. However, when we got back, I see that my SWG was not producing (different story). When I opened the pool, the water was grey, so I put whatever liquid chlorine (roughly 3 gallons of 12.5%) I had in and got the SWG...

Hi. I recently left my cover open and used the rain storms we got to refill our pool, probably 2-3" worth. I bumped my chlorine up a bit (should have been around 14 according to math, but did not measure) anticipating some dilution and planned on adjusting my salt and CYA after it was filled...

I had an umbrella (with A 500lb base!) fall over during a storm and crack a pipe at my equipment pad. It looks like 2 1/2 inch, but just wondering if I need anything special to fix it. Is it just regular schedule 40 PVC and purple primer & glue, or do I need something special? I’m guessing I...

We recently got a new pomsky puppy and this is our first time with a new puppy and a pool. We are planning on opening is a few weeks and I was just wondering if anyone has any tips or advice on training/keeping her safe around the pool. If puddles (and her water dish) are any indication, she...

This may have been addressed before, but I could not find an answer when I searched around. I know not to add acid and chlorine together, but what about with a SWG. Is it OK to add acid in front of the return when the SWG is producing chlorine? I never really though about it before and...

With the color of our pool, our stairs can sometimes blend into everything and we have had a couple of guest miss a step. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas of underwater stickers or such that we could put on them. Ideally, something that would look like a marker tile in a plaster pool...

I had a strange issue with my IC40 over the weekend. My wife turned on the heater on Friday to warm the pool up and I started getting flow errors from the cell. By the time I got home to play with it, the water was warmed up, so the heater was off and the errors were gone. The next day, the...

About 2 years ago we installed a Leisure Pools Ultimate pool which has a built in spa. We also installed an auto cover, but were concerned about the edges of the spa. Our builder worked to make sure the tile was rounded and smooth on the corners of the spa, but we are still seeing premature...

My wife is going to the spa today to go into a float tank. Once she explained what it is, my first thought was how clean can the water be. I did some reading and in addition to a TON of Epsom salts, the water is filtered and run through both a UV and Ozone system. Most do not use any type of...

We were thinking of getting an electric smoker and I wanted to get some suggestions. We will use it occasionally and not for large groups, so we do not need anything very large. I liked the idea of the built in temp sensor as well as the digital controls. I was looking at the Masterbuilt 30"...

We had a copper spillover water pot installed with out pool last year. The pot is copper with a black power coating on the outside. The power coating has started to discolor and flake off. The manufacturer is going to replace it, but would like to replace it with a 316 marine grade stainless...

I was wondering if anyone has removed the debris guard on their Intellichlor unit. I was thinking I might be able to lower my pump RPM a little if I did. I'm not sure how much it really does anyways. In my case, my filter would catch anything before it gets to the cell (especially anything...

We are new pool owners this year, and after a few issues, I have finally got our water looking great. My test numbers are finally looking good (still working on TA, but much lower). After an acid cleaning of my salt cell and keeping my CSI slightly negative, my chlorine issues have gone away...

I was looking through the ScreenLogic manual at the Chrolinator section and saw under the Pool Output % setting: "The IntelliTouch control system will automatically drop the chlorine output levels to 1/20 the output when the Spa mode is switched on." If this is the case, what is the Spa Output...

We have a Dolphin Oasis Z5 (very similar to the M500 and M400). I have tried all of the different positions on the handle floats, and still cannot seem to get it to climb our walls. It will go vertical, but just will not get off the floor. I have read a few other places that water chemistry...

We have had our pool for several weeks now, and I just cannot seem to get my water to be the crystal clear I know it can/should be. I can see the bottom without any problem, but there just seems to be a haze in it. I did a SLAM about a month ago due to a total loss of cholrine (no CYA) and a...

We just finished out pool installation and our PB suggested that we put an enzyme pack in the skimmer every couple of weeks. He said that he has seen filter cartridges get destroyed due to heavy lotion use and that the enzyme help prevent that. Not that we are heavy lotion users, but I already...

Hi. We just installed our new pool and this is the first time owing one. Our PB had been maintaining our water up until this past week. They gave us test strips and a brief overview of the chemicals. Up until this weekend, we had only been in briefly once or twice, so our auto cover has been...