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Here in the desert, it doesn't matter what "cool" surface you place on the pool deck, it's going to get uncomfortably hot to walk on. A quick dousing of the deck with a couple of buckets of water cool it down nicely. Since I was going to re-do my deck with travertine, I was thinking I should...

I have a 15 year old pool and the current acrylic surfacing of my concrete deck is starting to flake off. It's flaking off on the vertical coping edge (into the pool) , as well as some of the regular horizontal surfaces. Additionally. the caulking on the edge where the concrete deck intersects...

I recently purchased a SWG for my pool. I bought enough salt at the store to bring the levels up to 3500ppm. I now just installed a water softener that is the source of the autofill for the pool. Now that it's 2 weeks since I installed the softener, the SWG (Intellichlor IC40) is showing the...

I'm looking for someone who has an IntelliChlor IC40 hooked up to an automation controller. If you have this setup, have you ever hooked up an RS485 sniffer to record the conversation between the SWG and the controller? If so, would you mind sending me some recorded data? I would be your...

Last weekend I decided to convert from liquid chlorine to an IntelliChlor generator. While waiting for the device to arrive, I dumped 8 bags of Diamond Crystal water softner salt (99.5% pure) into the pool I shut off my pool cleaner, turned the pump on for 8 hours and went for a swim to get...

I have an autofill built into my pool. Unfortunately, the crickets love to get in though the finger holes of the lid. I have tried the flood them out and suck all the water out (remove any eggs/etc), but they just keep coming back. I've tought about gluing some plastic scrubbers into the...

I moved into a house this summer and found a jar of cynauric acid in the garage. I'm not sure how old it is, but I'm pretty sure it's not older than 13 years as that is when the pool was built. Does this stuff go bad? Note I'm in Phoenix, so the garage temps get to the 100s for several months...

I'm wanting to condition/soften the water going into my house, including the pool feed line. I was thinking about getting a water conditioner like the pelican or apex system. These systems don't remove calcium by ion replacement, but have some sort of catalyst that causes the calcium to...

So I want to replace my pump. The outflow pipe is easy. Just saw gray pipe after union and get new fittings. I'd use a MIP/SLIP fitting so pump is removable without cutting PVC in the future. What should I do on the intake side? I don't see any spot I could cut between the valve and pump that...

I just bought a house with a pool in Phoenix, AZ. It's been maintained by a pool service with tablets until I moved in. I'm starting to convert it to the BBB method here but wanted to get a good estimate of the water capacity. I have the pool drawing attached and by my estimate, I think the pool...