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Okay, I need help settling a debate. I saw some electric fence signs and thought it would be funny to put them on the gate of our pool fence as a conversation piece with friends and to potentially ward off anybody that isn’t suppose to be around or doesn’t know. My wife and daughters saw them...

After looking at the calculators, the utility costs of the heat pump are reasonable. According to Raypaks i would be looking at $600 for a 5 month season(85 degrees). That is reasonable to me, the first and last months are high but the middle months are not bad. So what are your thoughts on the...

Thank you all for the responses, these are pretty much what I expected-that solar is not ideal in Michigan. I am just south of Lansing, rate is $0.17/kwh. I was planning to do 6-4x12 panels on a south facing roof with an 8/12 pitch. Also thanks for the info on the heat pump calculators, I will...

Hello, forgive me if this has been discussed, I cannot find a good answer anywhere. So, we had our new pool installed last fall at our new house. I decided to take the winter to decide what i wanted to use to heat the pool. I was adamant that I wanted a heat pump because we only have propane...

Will do. Thank you.

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This whole thing started with a leak that developed last year. At one point I was losing an inch day. I had to add a lot of well water which has a very high iron content. I didn’t notice too much staining last year but did see some early signs of it. This spring I had to add about 3000...

Thanks for the info. Why do you say the new pump is much smaller? I figured it would be pretty even since they are both 3/4 hp. Is the new pump sufficient for my setup? Thank you again.

I just installed my new pump today and my pressure is running steady at 10 PSI with a clean filter, does this sound about right? The new pump is 3/4 HP pentair superflo single speed with 1 1/2" plumbing. The old pump was Sta-rite 3/4 hp and ran at about 14 PSI with clean filter. Everything...

I put 11 drops in before it went back to clear for the CC test.

I have the tf 100 test kit. The CYA is a guess, it was 40 when i closed the pool and i have replaced almost all the water in the pool due to a leak that i had all last summer and winter which was fixed earlier this spring. I have always been told you cant get accurate CYA reading with low...

FC-1 CC-5.5 PH-8 T/A-130 CYA-10 Gonna bring back to shock level and keep it there. CC seem to be high, never seen it that high before. I haven't put any stabilizer in yet, because i was waiting for the pool guy to get done vacuuming, didn't want to waste it. Also some pics. What do you...

Will post pic and numbers tonight. I was only home for lunch. Are there negative sides to using a floc or just unnecessary?

Thanks for the reply's. I don't understand how these people can be out there doing these types of things. He claims to have been in the pool business for 25 years. I pride myself on having a nice pool and this guy potentially screwed mine up for the summer. Now the pool water even looks like...

Decided to have a local pool guy come out to open the pool this year because I haven't had much time and he only charged 100$. He said I had a real bad algae problem and that he had never seen algae that would adhere to the pool. The algae was sticking in certain areas but I had been killing it...

Follow up: I ended up taking the pump basket out and with the pump off I stuck a 4 inch screwdriver in by the impeller and moved it around a bit. I had a bunch of pine needles caked around the impeller. I have to do this every so often now, I can tell when its time based on the way the pump...

Pool guy is too busy to come out anytime soon. Thinking I'm gonna shut her down sunday and worry about it in the spring. I will leave the loop loc off a couple of weeks to see how far the water ends up going down. I have been brainstorming ways to figure this out on my own and one of the...

Pool guy is coming at some point to pressure test my lines. I have another suspicion that my main drain line could be leaking as well because i think this leak started over the winter when everything else was plugged. Pool guy says he isn't concerned about the main drain and says it is highly...

Here is a video of my pump running. There are some bubbles but not what I imagine when people say it to be "sucking air" with a suction side leak. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyl0jl5 ... ata_player

No, I use the hole in the bottom of the skimmer for vaccuuming. No equalizer line. I assume it goes from the bottom of the skimmer to the pad. If this is the case the water shouldn't disappear when I fill it, right? I have the skimmer line shut off at the pad and I am only running the main drain...

Yes, I have pipe for the floor drain and a pipe for the skimmer at the pad with a valve to control which one I want to use.

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Okay. I am about 4 inches below skimmer right now. I will plug everything tonight. Another thing I thought was strange is that if I pour water into the skimmer right now, it disappears. There is no water in the skimmer basket because the water is below the skimmer. If I fill it about half...

Well, Have not needed to post in a while but I am completely stumped. Losing an inch a day. Did bucket test and only lost 1/16 of an inch in bucket. This is my 4th season with a pool and I have never lost water like this. Plugged skimmer and main drain at different times and still lost water...

Mark- Thank you for the input. I am positive that I didn't have the valve here before. I have never done it like that but never really knew where it should be. I will leave it there unless I am vacuuming from now on. So how do those bubbles form from an increase in suction? Melt- Thank you as...

I took the valve apart and there was nothing lodged in it. Although I did figure out that if I turn the valve to the position that allows both the skimmer and floor drain to be fully open the pump goes back to normal and psi goes back to 15. When I close either one I get the bubbles in the...