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  1. 4ever3

    Cloudy after a heavy rain...

    Hello all, we’ve had two significant thunderstorms in the last two weeks and each one has left the pool just a touch cloudy. Case in point, yesterday I said to myself “Gotta top the pool off tomorrow!” Little did I know 5 hours later we would have a rain storm that would put almost 6” of water...
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    How many pucks?...

    Going to be gone for 10 days and we’d rather not trust our oasis to anyone other than TFP! The CYA is at 40 and we lose about 1 to 1.5 ppm of FC per day. Plan is to put pucks on a floater and drive off, but how many pucks do we put in the floater? If I’ve left any information out please let...
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    Anyone have this light?

    Does anyone have this light and if so does it work on steel pools or does the steel kill the transfer of power? What do you think about it, good, bad, or indifferent? Magnetic LED Pool-Wall Lights - Intex Thanks in advance!
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    I know I've read it...

    I know I've read it but I cannot find it. Somewhere I read about adding salt to a chlorine pool instead of borates for a softer feel but I can't find it now. Anyone know where it is? Thanks in advance!
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    Is there such a thing as....

    Is there such a thing as an electric pool vacuum that you can put on the end of a pool pole and vacuum the pool like you vacuum the living room? Im thinking like the Rover S2 on the end of the pole. I ask this this because I hate using the suction side to vacuum and everyone complains that...
  6. 4ever3

    Filter issue...

    Here's what happens... Turn the the pump off and switch valve to backwash and turn pump back on. Pump for a while and get some debris out then it clears up. Turn pump off, and switch to backwash rinse, turn pump back on and BOOM!! Blows out way more debris than it did on backwash then clears...
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    Pros and cons?

    What are the pros and cons of hard plumbing skimmer and return in on an AP? I would like to do it so it is a cleaner looking installation than the flex hose and I can't really see any drawbacks to it but want to ask. I know there are things this first time pool owner is overlooking.
  8. 4ever3

    Serpent vac

    Does anyone own or have owned a Serpent vacuum from Leslie's? Good, bad or indifferent? We have a 24' X 48" AGP
  9. 4ever3

    What am I doing wrong?

    Hi all, Just had a new AGP installed Friday (24' X 48" 13,500 gallons) and the water topped off late Saturday early Sunday morning and I wanted to start off with BBB but the numbers I'm getting from my test kit (Leslie's / Taylor 81-330) make no sense when plugged into the pool math site... 1-...