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My kids are getting ready to pour concrete and the concrete company is using a standard expansion joint material made out of some type of fiber (coconut?) instead of the traditional foam backer with tear off like was used in my pool it doesn’t look to have near the compressibility of foam. Is...

I’m building a pool/spa with all pentair equipment and need to select an air blower for the spa. My last pool/spa had a polaris QT which worked well but was noisy. For the life of me I can’t find the model/part number for a similar part made by pentair. Also What is the quietest brand?Any help?

I did an owner/builder a pool in 2004 using a complete Jandy system at the time and sadly they seem to be shunning DIY customers these days so I’m not recommending them any further. My daughter and SIL are now starting a owner/builder but since much has changed since back then I’m out of the...

Had to repair some leaking pipe fittings and pipe so need to paint it black again. My equipment was painted when installed (2007) but hasn’t held up very well over the years and my attempts to touch it up weren’t much better. I’ve searched the forum but haven’t found a thread on what exact spray...

As per my pool information in my signature below, Imam currently using a jandy stealth 1hp pump for my circulation. I chose this size as the pump curve worked perfectly to match the elevation and gpm flow recommended for the solar panels on my roof. It has worked great these last 15 years...

Anyone have any recommendation on pre-printed labels to mark pool equipment? The last set I bought faded horribly in a year or two so they are barely legible any more.

My rescue dog loves the pool and swims daily. She gets excited and bites the water while swimming. I also occasionally see her drinking from the pool even though she has a freshwater bowl with an automatic filler over in the shade. We are considering going back to saltwater sanitation and...

I’ve run a swg since we built the pool in 2006. We traveled a lot the last two years (retirement is grand). Because the jandy system wasn’t too reliable (on my 3rd unit), I just got lazy and used a tab feeder the last two years. Didn’t have a problem with cya build up until late in the season...

Rebuilt my 15 year old jandy color pool light this week. This is the original model with standard incandescent bulbs. One of the glass colored lenses in the dichroic lens is broken (likely from heating and cooling). There are the various colored glass pieces and holder that sit in front of the...

Installed the spalink rs ~ 15 years ago when we built our pool/spa. Everything still works fine (the key to longevity on a flat mounted unit is to ensure the drain for the opening works properly). Over the years, the led display has gotten hazy making it difficult to see in daylight (night is...

So over the winter I usually use a puck in-line feeder to keep alge from forming (norcal) and run a 1400 aquaprue swg during the summer. Last summer I got lazy after the winter and never refilled the pool with salt after the winter rains were done and just ran it on pucks all year with OK...

Daughter just bought 5 acre property and wants to have me build a pool there. I did an owner/builder on my pool 10 years ago so familiar with traditional gunite pool building process. I’ve been seeing pools recently that are resembling a sand beach/lagoon. I think building something similar...

Just wanted to drop,a note regarding a friend’s laar’s heater (same as jandy lx400) that stopped working last week. It would come on and warm for a couple minutes then the AGS service error would pop up. After some research I pulled the fame prover sensor and gas orifices to clean them. Small...

I know Jandy make some hardware changes for the 2.0 version which fixed some of the original wifi issues but my original version frequntly will drop the connection to the home wifi. No ryme or reason why. Sometimes it goes 2 or 3 weeks, other times, a few days. I cant get a reconnection unless...

Here's current results: ph. 7.2 cya 30 calcium hardness 220 alkalinity 100 fc 4.5 cc 0 I've noticed over the last month that the CYA number has dropped some (from 45ppm to current 30ppm). We did have more use and splashing over the last few weeks and I did a leak test on the pool before...

Installed a replacement aquapure system and connected up to our existing jandy aqualink RS power panel that I upgraded to the original iaqualink system when they came out in 2012. Aquapure works fine but when i re-energized the power to the panel, there seems to be no power to the controller...

Some of you remember my recent post where I drained and acid washed my 10 year old pebble-tec pool. It came out better than when it was first built with color uniform and zero mottling. I was in the process of adding 10 40 lb bags of salt and working to install a new aquapure to replace the...

I used the gardenweb site a number of years ago when doing our DIY inground pool so still stop by there from time to time to review and respond to posts ( although they dont seem to get much traffic lately). Was kinda interesting to read someones post who was butthurt because not everyone here...

Just did a drain and acid wash on the pool monday. Been working since then to get all chem levels balanced out. Most everything is now good but after 8lbs of calcium, im still only to 140 on CH. is this low of a level doing damage the pebble tec over the course of just 1week?

10 year old pool has to be drained to remove high CYA. While pulling down, I was acid cleaning the spa waterfall into the pool and noticed that the cleaning removed the brown film that is uniformly on the pebble tec and 1/2 wat up the waterline tiles. The color is carribean blue and finish...