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And a followup, am I better all around just replacing with a VS and not a VSF as this is just a typical pool plus hot tub arrangement, I'm not sure why the builder would have speced the VSF - but again I am looking for easiest install...

Long story short - sister's house in Fort Myers had 4' of water in the yard during Ian, which put their pool equipment entirely under water. Their year-old Intelliflo VSF pump appears, as you'd expect, to be shot. I'm no equipment expert but looks like pentair uses this same wet end for...

Sorry for the late reply, let me try to answer some of the above: - How often can someone be there to test? Well, at $125/month, it seems we can count on someone showing up 2x a month, maybe. Are they testing the water? Honestly I doubt it. At this point I'm happy if they vac out the worst...

Short version: Parents in their late 70s. Dad stopped taking care of the pool ~10 years ago, let it become a swamp, we got it under control over a period of months and hundreds of dollars, and are now on the 6th or 7th "professional" pool service. Going rate is now $125 a month, and the last...

I've lived in Florida most of my life and as far as I know, hydrostati valves just weren't a thing when most of these pools were built. (Not sure if they are today) standard operating procedure on the handful of pools I've seen resurfaced (including my own) is day 1 drain, day 2 drill 3" hole in...

I don't honestly think "closing" the pool is an option - you can't drain a pool here without drilling a hole in the bottom (otherwise they have a nasty habit of popping out of the ground).. And once the pool has SOME water in it.. Well, it's a problem. My dad just revealed that his grand plan...

The situation was, surprisingly, under control for the last few years and essentially he would dump in shock all the time, and I'd show up every 2-3 months and spend a day getting the pool into ok shape. He has an older cartridge filter and and barracuda cleaner - where everything really went...

Need some advice. My father (who is in generally poor health and is still "with it" but getting worse) decided to stop taking care of his 15k gallon inground pool. In florida. In the middle of summer. After 3 months, I returned home to discover that he essentially let the pool turn into a...

I had the standard "dead hayward aqr" problem described here: http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/17562-Aquarite-Not-generating-lights-not-on Complete with visibly failed current limiter. Unit was only 18 months old. I didn't have time to deal with it at the moment, so ordered a new board...

Thanks guys. Either is mid-$600s right now, and I'm willing to pay a premium for the 'adjustability' vs the 2 speed pump. Added bonus that I can use my existing timer - I don't anticipate needing any other automation etc. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something dramatically better...

I need to make a decision this week - I am replacing an existing 3/4 HP pump which provides more than adequate flow in my pool. My choices - both are mid-$600 - are the SP2300VSP or the SP2600 VSP. The 2300VSP uses the "Max-Flow" Head. The 2600VSP uses the "Superpump" Head. The motors on both...

So I'm just converting to SWG and struggling with my salt levels - according to my Hayward AQR panel I'm at 3400 ppm. According to the (well inside expiration date) Aquacheck strips that came with it, I'm somewhere between 1200 and 2000, depending on which strip I choose to believe. Based on...

I really have no idea - I assumed the gauge was just no good because I never saw it go past 5 psi, but it's possible it just never went past 5 psi. I always measured the filter condition by the speed of the cleaner - slow cleaner and I'd pull the filter out and hose it down. When the water...

Way too late on the filter. :) Actually the previous filter was a 75 sqft so this is a moderate upgrade. Previous owner built a "box" around the pool equipment with a lid, so I was limited by height in how big I could go. I actually had no complaints about the previous filter's capacity...

Ok, I get the message on the rectorseal, I'll check it out. I actually may have a can of their "t plus 2" stuff around here somewhere, that looks very familiar. On the Teflon tape - for the record - 2-3 wraps of it was specifically what was recommended by the Hayward Filter manual. As a...

Right, so, no option but to cut the nearest straight section of pipe and try, try again - correct? (unfortunately I already did that once, still a leaker and I don't think I have enough space for another coupler!)

Ok, just redid my pump and filter connections, and everything went great, except that 2 of my 3 threaded fittings have a slow drip. What's the secret here? I gave each 2-3 wraps of teflon tape, hand tightened, and then tightened some more. The ones on the filter appeared to be almost all the...

3psi (ok, maybe 4) is as high as the pressure gets, that's with the selector valve set halfway between the skimmer and the cleaner. If I go to either full skimmer or full cleaner the pressure drops to ~2 psi. Curiosity got the better of me and I spent 10 minutes trying to empty out a bucket...

Ok. Yesterday's project was replacing everything BUT the pump as I'll have to order that, but cleaned up some piping and got the salt system hooked up. [attachment=0:15r3qpn0]poolpumpsnip.JPG[/attachment:15r3qpn0] So installed a new C900 filter and salt cell, and redid the plumbing between...

I follow you - however after stepping down my pump speed I don't see any harm in overextending my "required" runtime for the pool by an hour or two, (especially looking at some of the power ratings at low rpm) unless there's some evidence that running the SWG at a lower duty cycle would result...

Understood on run time - some of it is purely asthetic - my concerns with efficiency etc aren't so much about cost, just that if I'm going to redo the plumbing I might as well do it the more efficient way. My take was that with a variable speed pump and the SWG, I may as well run it very long...

This is a fair criticism - I think today I'm running my pump approx 6-7 hours a day in the summer and 5-6 hours in the winter. My recollection is that I had worked it out to be somewhere around 14k gallons. The pool has stayed crystal clear for 2.5 years with almost no maintenance so I was...

Hmm. That VSP Hayward above looks very tempting, especially with the programming features - looks like I could set it to run at 1 hour on "high" to run my cleaner, and then let it revert to my preset "low" for 8-12 hours to run the salt system. From quick reading I'd keep my existing timer to...

I'm not really a fan of the current pump - it has been fine mechanically but getting the lid to seal is an adventure every time, even after new o-rings and goop. I'm shocked to hear this is an 'uprated' setup as I've got an average size older pool and seems everyone else I know has 1+ HP pumps...

Quick background: S. Florida in-ground pool, 13k-15k gallons. I have a skimmer and a vac line, and two returns, each plumbed 1.5" PVC. Current equipment is a Sta-Rite P2RA5D-180L 3/4 HP wired 220v. My pool store mentioned this was "really more than 3/4". No idea on that. Also have a...