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Hi All, I have a roughly 30k-35k gallon pool with chlorine and a 500 gallon hot tub. I typically dump hot tub water quarterly out into the lawn, but I wondered today if it was safe to just dump it into the pool instead, and then just test/rebalance the pool water if required. If it's common...

We had a hot tub installed over the summer, which required a new circuit box outside. I'm a little fearful that the electrician may not have set it up right - everything is working fine, however: Inside the house the breakers that are labeled for that box are two 70 amp ones, and there is no...

Hi All, Started noticing air in the pump basket a week ago, and then a day or two later, coming out into the pool. And finally, it stopped priming on its own in the morning. I have two skimmer suction lines and if I turned the shallow off it went away. If I turned the deep end off, they...

Hi Everyone, There is a metal piece of wire that comes out of my ground that I think, from reading the forums, is a bond wire. On my old motor it was rusted to the top of it - I'm not sure if there was a screw there holding it or what, because it all just pretty much broken into bits of rust...

Hey Guys, My Emerson crapped the bed and needs to be replaced. Physical damage internally - probably not worth any repair I could have done to it, and it's rusted as all heck, so I'm sure it's as old as the house. I see a ton of pumps online, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to judge them...

Just had some water delivered today and because I told them I suspected a leak, they filled above the skimmer so I would have more water while it leaked away. I know it can't "skim" like this, but any problems running the pump in the mean time with the water so high?

Hi Everyone, My pool is in direct sunlight all day, and is used about 3-4 times per week. It's my first summer with it and 11 days ago maybe 2 months or so after opening, the water dropped below the skimmer line. It might have been dropping slowly the whole time, I wasn't watching it. I had...

Hi Everyone, The container of jumbo chlorine puck I have says in no uncertain terms: do not put in slimmer as it may damage equipment. The previous owner of 17 years, however, put them in the slimmer. The guy who opened my pool also put them in the skimmer. And the the one time we had it...

HI Everyone, The TF-100 came in last night and it was just light enough out that I could give it a spin. Before this, I relied on a pH drop kit I could barely decipher and some test strips. CC(1) -.5 (using the color matching test) pH - 7.2 (It may have been a shade darker/higher, not 100%...

Hi All, Could someone clarify when it's unsafe for me to swim in my private pool? My TF100 is on the way. Test strips and drops show good ph but chlorine is all over the place, typically on the low end. I'm using an inline chlorinator with some pucks and I'm sure the test kit will have me...

Hi Everyone, Thanks for opening up this community. I knew I found my home when I read gboulton's Step #1 from this post in how to properly test pool chemistry. I've only been a pool owner for 8 months and it was closed for 7 of them so I'm hoping TFP helps me keep my sanity, and maybe a...

Hi Everyone, Just did my first pool opening and the previous owner left behind plenty of stuff to help me maintain the pool. I've read (online, in manuals, and a pit in Pool School) about maintaining chemistry and what needs to be at what values, but my complaint is that I'm somehow completely...