Search results

  1. T

    What's happening with my pump? Making more noise every day.

    Hi! Rental home with crappy built pool and pool installation. My pump was never one of the quietest in the world. Apart from that, they have built my pump outside close to the pool itself so you always hear it when it's working. Lately my pump has started to make more and more noise and my...
  2. T

    Anybody knows Flipr?

    Seems to be a water analiser which sends data to the cloud which you can pick up with your Flipr mobile app. It’s subscription based and not cheap. What do you think? Useful? Scam? Info here: Pool water testing with Flipr. Save time and money - Eco Efficient House Toontje.
  3. T

    How to get rid of surface particles like pollen?

    I have a regular problem of having pollen on the surface of the pool. The skimmer doesn't catch it because the entrance is below the surface of teh water so the pollen keep floating on top of them. I cannot catch them with the cleaning net i use to clean leaves etc because the particles are too...
  4. T

    First night swim. That was a mistake!

    So last week i got home late from work. Tired. Warm. Time for a nice nights swim. Switched the pool lights on and got into the water. Now, the garden sprinklers were also active, so there was a nice romantic noise of splashing water around me. At least, i thought it was the sprinklers. Turned...
  5. T

    What? Never seem my Dolphin do this!

    Are pool robots supposed to climb the walls? I was watching this video: Maytronics Dolphin Nautilus Plus Review in Action - YouTube and i see the Dolphin get almost out of the pool. Mine never does that. Mine, whenever it gets to the wall, it tilts, stops and then goes backwards. I have never...
  6. T

    Can't get those tiny dust particles out! Any ideas?

    I always have a bunch of tiny dust particles on the bottom of my pool. I use floculant (maybe not enough, not sure) and while my Dolphin is working i leave the pump on. I get the feeling that the Dolphin is just throwing the dust around because when it's cleaning the pool looks great but after...
  7. T

    Unconventional pool construction/water circulation

    So first post here apart from the introduction. Reading up on everything pool related i noticed that my pool was built wrong. There is almost no water circulation. Here is what i mean: This is the area where my pump is. The arrow points to the only skimmer in the pool and as you can see it's at...
  8. T

    Thanks for this forum!!

    Newcomer from Spain. Father of a family of wife, two kids (15 and 10), two dogs and a cat. First time owner of a pool. Got it with the house. Got it when it was completely green and a perfect habitat for a large community of mosquitoes, worms and all kinds of other insects. A pool company got...