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Hi All, We have a wooden above ground pool and although I have a submersible pump it doesn't drain all the water, instead it leaves about a 2-inch depth which I normally vacuum out with my wet / dry vacuum. This takes about 2 hours. Is there another type of pump I can use to get as much water...

Hi All, I have a standard fixed eyeball pool return and although its great for spinning the surface water around the edges of the pool it manages to create a whirlpool effect leaving lots of leaves and debris on the bottom bang in the centre of the pool. Is this just something I have to live...

Hi All, Hopefully, if my new pump arrives (Espa Iris 1000M) I'll be installing it on Friday and wanted to know if you should or should not use plumbers tape on the inlet & outlet threads on the pump. Cheers DK

Hi All, We have an above ground pool which uses an EPSA Silen 50M pump. This morning I woke up to no water movement and the pump was buzzing. I turned off the power, stripped the pump down and noticed one of the bearings had seized. Not having a new one to hand I used some WD40 to free it up...

Hi All, Above the water line, covering a ring around my above ground pool liner is this strange black mould. It was there last summer but before I set the pool up in a few weeks time I wanted to see if I can get rid of it. It doesn't rub off and in fact you can't feel it which got me thinking...

Hi All, I've just filled my above ground pool with fresh water (I drained and completely cleaned the liner before filling). I turned the pump on and stupidly backwashed it with the power on and then turned the sand filter to rinse. My pool water is now very cloudy. I've put in a shock dose of...

Hi All, I have an above ground permanent pool which doesn't have any kind of drain plug. Instead, I use an electric submersible pump which is fantastic. The only issue is the last couple of inches of water. The pool isn't huge (14ft octagonal) but its large enough to take me ages and back...

Hi All, So once you've got all the important chemistry together what can I add to the water to get that sparkling, clear, almost Evian look? DK

Hi All, Do solar covers really work? They appear to me to be heavy duty bubble wrap. I do understand that we will always lose heat through the wooden sides of our above ground pool but would love to see if a solar cover really does help heat the pool during the day. I have a 9 kW heater which...

Hi All, As the topic suggests I'm looking for pointers as to what the correct pressure reading in psi for my sand filter. I assume the lower the better but then I need to know when I need to backwash. I just reconnected the pool yesterday. Should I have put the head on the filter to rinse...

Hi All, I have an Espa Silen 50M SP12 pump and it's a little noisy. I have only just started the pool up but don't recall it making this noise. Don't get me wrong, it's not screaming at me. Also, today I connected my vacuum hose to the pool inlet and heard the pump slow down whilst it tried to...

Hi All, Please firstly excuse my terminology, I'm no expert! Is it normal for the handle on top of my sand filter which has around 8 settings to release water from the backwash outlet even when simply being depressed / turned? Thanks Daz

Hi all, I've a 15' x 42" round Intex AGP and the return outlet in the pool tends to point upwards due to the weight of the flexible pipe full of water. As I'm fitting, hopefully tomorrow, an Espa Silen pump which is more powerful then the lame supplied Intex filter pump I feel that this tilt...

Hi all, My Intex 15' pool came with a maintenance kit which I attach to my garden hose to clean the floor of the pool. It's useless. So I've given the problem some thought......would a pond vacuum do the job if I tied a muslin bag to catch the debris and kept the return hose in the pool...

Hi all, Are there any advantages / disadvantages in putting both the solar cover and debris cover on every night when the pool isn't in use? Obviously the solar cover goes on when the pool is not in use but I'm checking that putting the debris cover on in the evening doesn't effect anything...

Hi all, I've a slight problem. My round Intex 15' AGP pool cover has split all over, it's pathetically made as I'm sure lots of other people on this forum would agree with. As we have 3 cats my wife is worried that we'd wake up one morning to a drowned cat so I need to find a replacement cover...

Hi all, My Ph is around 8.0 and I've been advised to bring this down to 7.2 - 7.4 before I even think adding chlorine. In the UK the chemical to drop Ph costs around $45.00 for approx 5Kgs. Is there a 'supermarket' product I can use instead? Thanks Darren

Hi all, I have an Intex 15' x 42" AGP and the cleaner that came with it is lousy at best and requires a lot of manual effort! Can anyone recommend a decent robot cleaner? Thanks Darren

Hi all, I've seen on eBay a number of these solar heaters which are in effect a long length of black hose. I can understand the principal but living in the UK we don't a) get very hot days and b) have a tremendous amount of sunlight compared with other countries. Has anyone used these before...

Hi All, This is the beginning of our 2nd season with our pool after a rather disastrous last year which I won't bore you with. Our Intex 15' x 42" deep above ground pool is settled on level (ish) ground and we'll be heating it with a 9Kw heater (yet to purchase). Unless of course there is other...