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Good Morning! We recently fired up our pool. We have a Hayward DE filter. For some reason the starting pressure is higher than it was last year. Maybe we added more DE than we should have. The weird thing is that when we try to relieve pressure from the valve at the top it used to push...

Thanks Jason. How many days of backwash every hour do you think we'd have to do? We both work full time. Not sure what to do until the weekend? Keep it circulating and keep shocking? Or stop the shocking? The water is basically like a milky light greenish/blue color. Have not seen the...

What exactly is floc?

Thanks for the advice. Pretty much what we figured, just weren't sure if there was some other way to do it. Surely people don't have to get up in the middle of the night multiple times to open their pools. Maybe next year we'll find a way to stop all that algae from growing during the winter...

Good Evening All, HELP!! I was hoping someone could give us some advice. We opened the pool on Sunday. Took off the cover and literally had tadpoles in there. It was dark green, smelled awful, had a lot of debris, etc. We shocked and shocked since Sunday. The water was circulating...

Hi All, After a LOT of thinking and budgeting we've decided to replace our pool filter by ourselves. My husband does construction for a living so he's very familiar with pvc work, etc., but has never replaced a pool filter. We are replacing a 36 sqft DE filter for another 36. Is it just as...

Hi All, I'm new to this board. This is our 5th summer in our house. We've had problems with something pool related every year. For the last 2 summers DE shooting back into the pool upon start up has been the issue. We have replaced every single grid, the valve, etc. Manifold is the only...