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Hi all, I posted last week looking for suggestions on a replacement pump for my pool. I went with the Pentair Superflo VS. Hubby (who installed old Purex Whisperflo) installed this one as well. It's getting power, all OK there, but the pump is not priming. There is no water filling basket...

Pump died, I had the Purex Triton Whisperflo (1.5hp). Have a manual timer switch. Nothing fancy with system - 1 skimmer, 1 main drain, no fountains or spas - but I do have a booster pump for my Polaris 380. I have a DE filter 48 sq ft grids, 2" pipes. The original pump was on a 20amp circuit...

Hi all, A couple of days ago, I noticed that my pump had not come on. I went to the timer to see if it was indeed time to be on and it was. There was no nothing coming out of the pump, quiet. I asked hubby to reset the breaker, thinking that was the issue. In this case, the breaker was tripped...

Hi all, I currently have a non-working Pentair SWB 4000 48 sq ft filter that is not working and I need to replace it. I don't want to spend a ton of money since most of my cash is going into the remodel of my kitchen currently. I found a Pentair 2000 48 sq ft filter on craigslist.. What is...

It turns out i have a leak on the bottom of my stainless steel filter, just outside where it sits on the stand but before it turns upward if that makes any sense. It's small but it is leaking. I understand that the filter is under pressure so I'm wondering if it would be unsafe to have a welder...

Hi all, Because the level on my pool has been dropping, I filled it up this morning. I forgot to set my alarm and I just noticed it after... well a few hours and it's higher than I've ever had it. Not over the deck. At the deep end, there is a rolled up retractable pool cover - in the early...

Hi all and thanks in advance for any help on this one I got on here awhile back when we moved our pool equipment and subsequently had to shock the pool etc. Living in such a dry and sunny environment, I was having to add chlorine and tweak the ph often, as well I was cleaning the pool a lot and...

I was reading this site yesterday - a question about muriatic acid - and someone mentioned finding a stronger version in the paint section of Lowe's. I found it - 20 baume or however you refer to it - pricewise I will see if it saves me a bit of money since I won't need as much each time (in...

In an effort to fix one of my returns, I accidently broke off the piece completely. There is still some part of the piece stuck in the pipe. Any recommendations for getting the remaining piece out easily and, in the meantime, is there any reason I cannot run the pump? It's not going to do any...

I have to order more product for my test kit so I was wondering what the benefit of this item would be. I mean, I only have one pool. It looks like it only fits the round test vials so it would not work for Ph, which I am testing as often as chlorine these days. Does it help for anything more...

I have these fittings on all my returns (I hope you can see them - this was about the only shot I could get since I don't have an underwater camera). To adjust the "eyeball" (which just seems to be a one sided lip) seems impossible. I can't move the thing at all and I don't know if I'm supposed...

I have a skimmer/main drain diverter that, when I moved in, hung out in the skimmer. What is the purpose of this? Should the "door" on the bottom of it be opened or closed if used in skimmer. I also have what appears to be a "floating weir" that sits in my skimmer basket, rather than a door...

I have decided that I have a problem with my pressure side washer and I need to clear up the pile of stuff on my pool floor. I have the attachment below (left by the previous owners), which back in the old days used to work to vacuum the floor of our pool when I was a teenager (ages ago). I...

Hi guys and gals, I've been working on getting the water clean in my pool after we moved out pool equipment. The last few days I've noticed air bubbles shooting out of the return (both at the pressure side washer outlet and the return right next to it) - recently it is a lot of bubbles - in...

If you've been following my story, you know we moved the pump and filter equipment. That equipment was down nearly 4 weeks while this went on. While all this was happening, I got my TF test kit and posted numbers that were decent. The CH was high, nearly 550. Some of you mentioned draining half...

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As some of you know, we are moving our pool equipment. We have a Pentair Whisperflo pump. DH wired the booster pump fine and that is working (we just turned it on long enough to hear the sound) but the Pentair is not making a peep. No click, like it's trying to do anything which would lead me to...

I have a main drain and one skimmer. We only have one outlet to the pump from the skimmer. I looked in the skimmer but I don't see more than one plug - a lot of posts mentioned I should see two if the skimmer and main drain are on the same pipe. is there some other way this could be setup...

We are moving our pump and filter and my DH has a quick question. Should the pipes be completely level to the pump and from the filter? It seems to me it would be good to have it level to the pump since it makes it work less hard to pump the water but back from the filter, a little downhill...

Thanks to Jason, I was able to sort out the issues with the tests. I was waiting for a particular color when I should have been noticing just when it changed. Hopefully I have it right now. FC 3.0 CC 0 pH 7.5 TA 50 CH 500 CYA 20 (this was a tough one because I swore I could still make out the...

I did the TA test and after about 20 drops, my test was not turning to "red" it was still decidedly pink and I wondered if perhaps my pink is another man's red. Then I hit my CH test and after 45 drops the same thing happened. I can't tell if my sample is "blue" or clear with a blue tint, hence...

As you may or may not know from reading, I was recently having a problem with my filter PSI increasing dramatically. The water is foggy and although it looks better than it did, we decided to move our pool equipment last weekend and the project is not completed yet. I have been testing the...

What is the best way to get water out of a pool? Is there a way to use the pump to pump out the water - I'm thinking backwash but my filter is all taken apart for cleaning. Basically my DH decided to move the piping for our equipment today but since the pipe from the pool to the pump is lower...

I am cleaning my DE filter for the 3nd time since I bought the house last Sept. The pressure was going up slowly until yesterday, when I posted about whether it would harm my filter or pump to have it on at that psi. After I sent the email and kept running it, I continued to check the psi and it...

I won't be able to clean my filter until this weekend but it's been a few days since the pump has been run and I want to know if it's OK to run even though it's up 10 psi since I cleaned it last. I'm not sure why the PSI jumped so much as it's only been 3 months since I cleaned but that's...

I accidently broke off a part from my Polaris 380 (see photo below). This piece is part of the whole ensemble base which I can find online but thought I'd see if anyone had an old Polaris that they might sell me or if they happened to have that piece laying around that I could buy... It's only...

Hi guys, I am cleaning my DE filter for the first time, thanks to some great instructions from simicrintz. I have already PM'd him my question but as my filter is currently apart, I need a quick answer so I thought I'd post here too. I've gotten to the point where I am trying to get my filter...

Hi all, We had some serious rain about a week ago. Between the pool filling up to almost overflow and the deck drains under strain (backed up... I did say it was serious rain!), we were pretty swamped. We did not build the pool and we aren't really sure where all the drains drain out to...

Hi all, I live in Southern California and I have posted here once before. One person told me that I don't "need" to worry about closing since our temps don't get down too low. My hubby, who has left the pool maintenance to me, wants me to stop filling the pool (I have a lot of evaporation) and...

Hi all, Hopefully my info will show on my signature after I am finished with my post. :) We moved into a house with a pool in early Sept. I grew up with a pool but my dad did most of the maintenance. Although he has been helping me, he is unfamiliar with DE filters (although he is great at...