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Hey all, I have a Pentair EasyTouch system with an 8 channel wireless remote. For almost 3 years now the remote has worked great. Never had any troubles with it. Now for the last 6 months or so, I'm having serious connection troubles. 99% of the time now the remote will just say "No...

Hey all, been a LONG time since I've posted, please forgive me. I'm in Tucson, AZ and recently we had some record low temperatures. Low temps for a couple nights in a row got down to about 18 degrees. Luckily my freeze protection in my automation system (easytouch) protected the main...

I have a Sta-Rite Max-E-Therm 400 gas heater that has developed a very loud blower. It used to be virtually silent and the loudest part was hearing the gas ignite. Now the blower has a loud resonance, like something in the blower is out of balance. Anybody have any experience with these...

http://www.livescience.com/health/090514-pool-hygiene.html Have you done it? I think the percentage is actually much higher though.

Went over to some friends house for dinner this weekend. He has a pretty small (~6000 gal) gunite pool that was originally installed with a Frog cartridge system. I've tried many times to tell him about this site and how easy pool maintenance can really be but he never wants to hear it. The...

I ran out of my red pH indicator solution from my TF-100 kit. I have a crappy kit that was provided from the PB that has a bottle of pH indicator solution. Both the TF-100 and other kit bottles say the solution is 'phenol red'. Is all phenol red the same or is it possibly a different strength...

Reading the intellichlor manual online I noticed this paragraph... "pH produced by IntelliChlor Electronic Chlorine Generator is close to Neutral pH. However, other factors usually cause the pH of the pool water to rise. Therefore, the pH in a pool chlorinated by IntelliChlor tends to stabilize...

How about a photo gallery page... I'm not talking anything complex, just a page with all of the slideshow pics on it (hopefully at a little higher resolution). The slide show is great but if you're looking for a certain picture or you just want to go through them all one by one for ideas, it's...

I have a couple of buddies who firmly embody the idea that "you can lead a horse to water...". We all got pools at about the same time but I had found TFP during the construction phase and quickly told the builder to switch from a Frog system to a SWCG. Both of my buddies stuck with the Frog...

Sean, The TFP logo at the top of the page isn't linked back to the home page. I was under the impression that this is pretty standard web design as it just lets you click at the top of any page to get back to the home page. I understand there is a 'home' link near the top, but it's a pretty...

Sorry if anyone finds the title offensive, but I think it's a topic that should be discussed. This is probably going to be a long rant for me so I'll apologize in advance and try to give some background. I live in a master-planned community that has tons of neighborhood amenities. One of the...

I have several automated valves in the plumbing on my equipment pad. I was wondering is it OK to manually turn the levers on these valves? If so, will it confuse the controller as to which position they're in or will it just straighten out the next time the controllers commands a move...

I'm half frustrated, half amused... I have some rusting screws on my lights and returns... this made me angry since half the screws are shiny and new looking and half are rusted and decaying already (pool is less than a year old). Obviously they used some sub-standard screws. Anyway, I...

I have a Pentair Easytouch system with the wireless remote and I was hoping there was some sort of holster or wall mount such that I could mount it next to the sliding door that leads out to the pool. That way the remote isn't just laying on the kitchen counter and prone to go missing. It...

What can cause the water to be smelling stronger than usual? I noticed a couple of days ago and my wife has really been noticing... its almost like a smell of something breaking down in the water... once I found a mouse in the skimmer and this kind or reminds me of that smell. Problem is there...

Has anybody used one of these before? I was shopping at my local Frys (supermarket) and picked up some Acid while I was there and in their pool section saw this. I've had some calcium deposts on my tile, mainly near my spa spillover and thought I might try this. Previously I'd used a scrub...

Lately I've been leaving my easytouch system set to 'Solar Preferred' heating because it usually doesn't get warm enough to trigger solar until mid-day and we like to take our 1 and 2 year old swimming some days before their afternoon naps. Solar Preffered mode uses the gas heater if the solar...

Recently due to the rapid growth of TFP and the summer swim season starting to approach there has been a drastic increase in the number of posts on the forum. My normal once-a-day reading of the forum is now taking too much time! Please immediately stop admitting new members and restrict...

Having a SWCG I need to add muriatic (Hydrochloric) acid to my pool once a week (I should probably do it more often but that's another argument). I was originally given a couple of gallons of 30% strength acid when my PB started up my pool, but I can only find 15% strength in nearby stores. My...

I need to order a couple of new shade umbrellas for use in and around the pool. A buddy had told me of a good on-line store for them but I can't remember what it was. Anybody have a good source? Thanks!

Hi all, I have 6 large Heliocol solar panels on my 2nd story roof and I haven't been blown away by the heat output of them. The 2nd story roof slope that they're installed on faces south so they get tons of sun exposure. I was looking at pictures of my pool build yesterday and traced the...

We had a warm spell over the weekend down here in Tucson so I fired up the gas heater to go swimming. The pool water was ~48 degrees prior to turning on the heater and I started the heater going at ~6:00AM (granted it was probably in the mid 40's that early in the morning). It's a new Sta-Rite...

I've been hitting the "view posts since last visit" button all day and haven't been getting any threads... Please fix this horrible bug ASAP... I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the horrible cold weather out there right now... :wink:

Hi y'all... I'm using the TF-100 and my pool finished construction in mid-late August (details in sig). My CH since startup has always been ~100 and my CYA was ~50. I recently spoke with my PB about this and they sent out a crew to increase the CH and CYA both. My numbers now are: FC...

In my recent pool build our sales person sold us on the Terra Cotta colored solar panels so that they would match our roof tiles better. I agreed but now that I see them on the roof I wish I had just gone black. Our roof tiles are more brown then reddish-brown and the 'terra cotta' solar...

Well, we are finally up and running and our yard is landscaped with the exception of waiting on a SynLawn installation. Here are a couple of pictures as well as the BBQ Island that just got finished also (but needs paint). Thanks for all your support!

Hi all, I'm almost done with my pool build (it's getting PebbleTec next week) and so we're about to start with landscaping. We have two baby boys and we want a nice area for them to play on outside the pool fence and possibly put a play fort/slide structure on it. We're in southern AZ and I'm...

Hi all... thought I would introduce myself as a new member. My name is Tyler and I'm an aerospace engineer living in southern Arizona. My wife and I recently moved back to Arizona after spending 2 cold years in Buffalo and are building a new pool at our new home. We have two baby boys (6...

Here is a picture of our current progress in our pool build. We just completed the gunite phase. We're in southern arizona and it's our first pool so we're pretty excited. You can see the specifics of the pool in my signature. Hopefully we'll be swimming within 2-3 weeks!

Hi all... I'm in the middle of our first pool build here in Southern AZ (details in the sig) and I specified in our contract the Pentair Intelliflow 4x160 pump. Well the PB delivered and installed a Sta-Rite IntelliPRO pump instead. In their defence they are VERY similar. Pentair bought...