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    Light replacement question

    Good morning. We'd like to replace our current light with a pretty LED light, and my head is spinning with the choices and range of prices. I don't know where to start. Our niche opening is 4.5" wide and 5.5" deep. The light is 5.5" wide and about 5.5" long (see picture). How can I...
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    Hayward Superpump VS is screaming

    Hello everyone, 3.5 years old. I did replace the shaft seal and it's still making the same noise. It primes fine, doesn't leak just loud. I'm guessing it's the bearings :-(. There was a flying ant nest inside the seal plate, which I'm guessing did some damage? How do I go about searching...
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    Suggestions on new CircuPool SWG system?

    Looks like I'm jumping in the salt pool game myself! Any advice on RJ vs. Edge vs. Core?
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    My new high-tech chlorinator

    For those of us too lazy to hold a bottle of chlorine for more than a minute. Price: $18 more or less. Having a drink while it dribbles in for 15 minutes : priceless.
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    Recommendations - constantly cloudy pool

    Hi all, We purchased a new liner last April, and there are no more leaks! Yay! However, our pool gets cloudy... alot. Last year I tested the water daily. I kept our FC at 5.0, and never, not once ever got a reading on CC. Sometimes it turned green, sometimes it turned brown, but the FC and...
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    Leak at pool light? (I hope, sort of)

    Ugh, I am so tired of losing water in my pool! History: We purchased the house a year + ago, so last summer was our first summer with a pool. It was losing water all summer. This spring we determined that it was probably the liner and we replaced it. It stopped leaking all together! Since...
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    Is it normal for pH and TA to slowly decline?

    Hello friends, I am considering adding borates to my pool, but my problem isn't rising pH and TA, it is that it is constantly falling. We purchased the house last winter. Last year was a bit of a disaster, I hadn't a clue what I was doing and it took me months to get the pool clear. I wish I...
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    Help identifying these return jets and fittings

    Hello everyone, Can anyone help me identify these parts? They are on the return jets on my pool's stairway. The mechanism on top of the stairs is broken, and has been since we bought the house so I'm interested in repairing/replacing as much as possible, but I have not been able to figure...