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Wow, more complicated than I thought. Thanks for the input, I guess I'll start calling the local pool companies for quotes (and be prepared for the northern NJ pool price sticker shock).

The gas company is in the process of installing natural gas in our neighbourhood. We currently have an oil-fired pool heater (Laars XL) that is pretty old and will likely need replacing in a couple of years anyway, especially if the chipmunks keep nesting in it over the winter, so it seems like...

I'm in North-west NJ and I'd been expecting to close the pool this weekend but my wife got sick (I need her help to put on the pool cover) so definitely no swimming. Pool thermometer said 56f when I went out to test at lunchtime. Wall-E the robot was full of leaves

Calcium Chloride - if you're in Paramus then throw it on your driveway when it snows (it's whats in ice melt). TBH, I overbuy ice melt each winter (I check for nasties in it besides calcium chloride, of course) to use in the pool over the summer because, like everything else, it's the same...

I think I poorly treated the cable last summer because I’m pretty certain that they were there when I opened the pool in May this year. We have the pool open for about 4 months (may-sept).

Like they do, the cable from our Dolphin Active 30 got twisted in the pool and ended up with some lumpy bits. I had been untangling and stretching out the cable on our (brick) pool deck to sit in the sun and then letting Wall-E the robot just pull it back into the pool as he was moving around...

From your photo it looks like the skimmer weir door (the flappy bit between the skimmer and pool) is stuck. Mine used to do that and I'd have the same effect of water appearing to be rushing into it. What's actually happening is that the water flow is restricted so what water makes it through...

I used tarps on top of the mesh cover around two edges of the pool last winter for the first time, because we have rocks around the edge of the pool that prevent the cover from sitting tightly. This spring I opened to a lot fewer leaves in the pool, and a lot less algae. I used multiple heavy...

I wish it had only been $200. Last year I paid $400 at opening (and $430 the previous year at closing). After closing by myself last fall, I'll be opening for the first time by myself this May.

I completely agree. I closed my own pool for the first time this year. Blowing out all the lines and plugging everything took maybe 30 minutes (and part of that was using a shop vac to suck water out of the spa to be able to plug the main drain). The entire closing took me 7 hours with all the...

So, I got the 6 winterizing plates and I discovered that all the time I'd been assuming I had to remove the existing faceplate/nozzle to be able to attach them. However, they just screw onto the threaded part of the existing faceplate to make a water tight seal with the included rubber gasket (I...

Oh definitely. The year before last we had a couple of solid inches of ice on top of the pool. We'd also had a wet fall so the water level was higher than I normally let it get and there was some cracking of slate that's around the skimmer mouth. I really don't want pvc damage. In the absence of...

I have no covers for them - they never plugged those returns. We've owned the house 4 years, and the 4 times I've had the pool closed (with 2 different companies) none of them plugged or covered the returns in the spa, though they put plugs in the drain. This is one of the reasons I'm planning...

I'm trying to clear water from the lines and plug them. I assumed that to do that I would need to unscrew the "face plate" (the rings on the front), leaving the body of the fitting behind (I'm sure that's embedded in the plaster/gunite) but I can't figure out how to remove that face plate. If...

That Bulkhead Fitting with Gasket is certainly cheaper than buying the whole jet, if I break the fittings trying to get them off. I've contacted Hayward - hopefully they'll come back with a helpful tool I can use.

The tool arrived last night and I reached into the spa this morning (a chilly 73 degrees and dirty from the storm last night). Unfortunately it was too small - the tool reached the middle ring of the jet, but not the outer ring where the holes are (that the prongs would fit into). Is there a...

Thanks - I've ordered the tool, and if I can loosen the faceplate with that then I'll go ahead and order the seal plates (I'd seen the manual, but it would have been too obvious for it to actually describe how to fit/remove the faceplate)

I'm going to close our pool and spa by myself for the first time this year, because each year that we've owned the pool the various companies have each left me dissatisified in a different way. One of the things that none of them has done however, is plug the jet returns in the spa. Looking...

So 2 months later and I can't believe how different my pool is behaving this year. We had 2 trees cut down at the same time as my replumbing, so the pool now gets sun from 11-6, rather than the 3-6 that it got last year. I'm finding that my chlorine use is up because of all the sunlight. The...

First time in the pool and Wall-E decided to get a bit creative on our sun shelf. At least it meant that I got to keep up my streak of being the first person in the pool every year as I waded in to turn him upright (I wasn't sure if pulling on his cord would be the right thing to do in this case)

Since my various pool upgrades over the past month I'm left with 2 valve handles for my old valves , a spare bag for Polaris 360 and 2/3 of a pack (8) of Polaris tail scrubbers . If anyone wants any of these items then I'll give them away for just the cost of postage since it seems silly to...

I've read both here and in the Dolphin robot instructions that the power supply is water resistant not waterproof and so shouldn't be left out in the rain. I'm planning on putting our new Maytronics Active 30 in the pool tomorrow for the first time. However, we're expected to get rain on and off...

I just wanted to say a big thanks for all the help I got on this project. The pool was opened a week ago and was very green and dirty, so today's the first day I feel like it's properly open because the whole thing is clear and mostly blue. All of the plumbing is working perfectly (I slept...

Sorry, was hurrying to post before heading back out to the pool to do lots of digging (lagoon style == lots of dirt ending up in the pool, which we're trying to prevent). Anyway, here's pics as I was going. No criticism of my work please - it was my first time. It's not the greatest layout, but...