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We recently bought a Dolphin Proteus DX4 for our buried Doughboy. Since I sweep fairly regularly, we don't want the cleaner wasting time climbing the vinyl walls. Not to mention, the guy who replaced our liner (after the 2016 hail storm) apparently used the old coping, because in no time, the...

Hello pool lovers! It's blazing hot in Texas!! After reading through an old thread about burying above-ground pools, I decided it might be fun and informative to check with everyone to see how their buried above-ground pools are doing. Our Doughboy was eight years old when we had the 4/11/2016...

Hello all. We had our liner replaced in 2016 after the grapefruit-sized hail punched a hole in it. We're now wondering if the installer used the old coping. After just six years, it is breaking off in pieces and the overlap liner has fallen to the inside, above our return. It started out...

OK, so we're in Texas, where it (almost) NEVER gets cold enough to worry about winterizing our pool. About 13 years ago, we installed a 32x16 Doughboy with 7' deep end, buried with about one foot remaining above ground, and a large deck/railing surrounding the pool. We never close it for...

Hello all. Can anyone provide a ballpark figure on what it would cost to repair/replace this pool? It appears to be an in-ground vinyl and that's all I know about it. It's at a house we're sort of, maybe, kinda thinking about making an offer on.

Hi. I'm hoping someone will respond to this before we go to bed tonight and await the next big downpour, due in around 1:00a.m. My question is, what harm can it cause to allow the rainwater to fill the pool nearly to the top of the pool? If I turn the pump off, since the skimmer would be...

Here are the pool build and deck build links to photobucket. It's only been 16 months since we started this project, but it seems like it's been forever! All we have left to do with the deck is turn the step bricks in the right direction and tie-in the bottom corners of the railing. Then...

OK, I put my weight belt on so I would stay on the bottom long enough to see if the food coloring got sucked into the dimple anywhere and it didn't. The food coloring just hovered there for a very short instant, then dissipated on out into the water. I was very, very still. I did this three...

Our CYA dropped to 15 (or less) with the rains and drains in early May and again early June. (I had it at 20-25ppm since December and TA at 60 since late last summer, with pH holding steady at between 7.4 - 7.6) We added a solar cover in June 1. We lost miniscule amout of water with the cover...

Split from trichlor-and-cya-t14385.html Butterfly Jason, I have a question on the trichlor. I'm low on CYA, although I'm really not losing much FC during the day. I have 3 3" 8 oz trichlor pucks left from when we had our pool installed last year. I've read where folks have used those to...

Hi all. It was just suggested to begin a thread for this in the coffee bar, so here it is. We have a box of Leslie's Fresh 'n Clear from last June, before we went BBB. We used 2 bags from it and still have 10 left. We're asking $20, plus shipping for it. I'm not sure how much shipping would...

Can rain deliver mustard algae? If not, then I'm now 100% convinced that what we have had since last summer is not MA. We just had some really nasty storms last night and a this morning. I went out to drain and bleach the pool (didn't have any bleach last night for regular treatment) just now...

Hi all. We have six big round indentions in the bottom of our wedding cake steps and are wondering if we can use bar bell weights (the kind encased in the heavy-duty plastic) and sit one in each of the indentions. Would the chlorine eventually cause the plastic to crack? We looked for the big...

Hi. After reading on a thread about burying AG pools, there seems to be a lot of differing opinions. Some are from folks who have never had a buried AG, some from our experts who have had lots of experience repairing buried AG's and very few are from actual owners of buried AG's. So I...

We have an AG vinyl and have found that we really don't use the R-0010, R-0011L and R-0012 chemicals - plus, it appears our CH remains stable anyway. All three bottles are 3/4 full and I just bought them last June. Would anyone like for me to ship them to them? Thanks.

We're in the planning stages of our decking and have been told by the guy who sold us our pool that he jumps into his above-ground from his deck all the time and it doesn't hurt anything. You can see from the picture that we have buried all but about 8" of our pool. Does anyone know if it...

I thought our pool was about 19,000 gallons, but am now questioning that. I've attached a link showing the end of the pool build and how our deep end was made. You can see from the picture that we have a 3' "ledge" all around the deep end. The pool is 16x32 4' deep in the shallow end and 7'...

I tooks tons of pictures of every step from the first dig through the water-fill. It was so much fun to watch (and supervise LOL) and we're very glad that we chose to have ours buried. We will have to take extra precautions since we opted for a near full bury. But it's still worth it. We're...

Hi all. I was servicing our pool this week when I saw a tag pulling loose on the new 2-speed Dynamo we installed in November. I pulled it off, so I could keep it and when I did, I realized it had been taped over the original production tag. The original tag says "HP 1.5 - .18 SPL" and the tag...

We're ordering our 2-speed 1hp pump on Friday and will install in the next couple of weeks. We're doing this so we can leave ours running on low 24/7 year 'round. We hard-plumbed the returns and will hard-plumb the rest of it when we install the new pump. Our pool is exposed to the north wind...

OK, I've been doing BBB sincen late June and have decided to ask a question that I should probably already know the answer by now! When I add bleach or muriatic acid, I've been dribbling straight bleach, and dribbling MA mixed in bucket with pool water, along the sides and promptly brushing the...

We are ready to install our 2nd return inlet and need to ask if anyone knows how close you can safely trench around a buried Doughboy. We had it installed May 2008, buried 3' and have done our dirt buildup around it all summer, watering it in and letting rain settle the dirt naturally. So...

We seem to be having a problem with water scorpions now. We've found 3 in our skimmer basket, drowned. I kept one to take a picture and make sure it wasn't a praying mantis that changed to black! But it seems to have disappeared (probably tossed by DH!). Anyway, I'm getting a little nervous...

I APOLOGIZE FOR VERY LENGTHY POST. But at this point, I feel it's necessary to provide a little background on our situation in hopes that we can get some help (also have prior thread on this). OK, so we'd had our pool for one month, with near perfect balanced water (although we hadn't...

Hi all. While I'm waiting on my TF-100 kit to arrive, I needed ask a question about backwashing. Before finding TFP, and at the advice of 3 pool stores, we backwashed several times in June, after going through the process to kill the mustard algae (which STILL isn't dead). So now that we...

Hi. We would like to cut our electric bill down by going to a 2-speed pump, running on low, except to clean and backwash. We have a 150# Sand Dollar (SD40) with zeosand. Crown Pools said we can't use a 2-speed, because the LOW setting will not provide enough pressure to push the contaminants...

Hi. I'm new to all this pool stuff AND posting stuff. So please bear with me until I catch on! :wave: I'm Cherie and we live in Wylie, Texas. First of all, THANK YOU so much for caring enough to offer the invaluable help on this site. You have already saved us a lot of money (which is one...