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Water is clear and balanced, but it seems like a never ending battle to get rid of the constant layer of greenish-yellow "dust" on the bottom. Any disturbance, like a foot step, just produces a mini-explosion of the dust, so vacuuming is a very slow process. I presume it's dead algae, but it's...

Never mind. Ignore this thread . You can't fix stupid and I was stupid. I plumbed it backwards. DUH! I installed a Doheny's cartridge filter. I even read the directions and followed them, even though it's a no brainer. Turned pump on, no water. Investigation revealed that there is a valve...

I planned to uncover the pool this weekend and in preparation I started plugging everything into the electrical outlet. It tripped. I have isolated the unit causing the trip. It is the pump. Obviously it worked just fine when I unplugged it and drained the system for the winter and nothing...

Re: Elks Pool - - - 55,000 gallons, uses pucks for chlorination. 1960's in ground concrete pool. Okay, last weekend, my fellow "pool committee" members and I fell down on the job, meaning none of us went to the pool for 4 days straight and it turned dark green. All week I have been adding...

I've had it with Intex pumps. Time to get a real one that might last more than 2 years, but trying to decide between 3/4 hp and 1 hp. Total turnover in 8 hours would be 24 gpm. 1.5" pipes so 40 gpm is the maximum. Going from pump, through 18" sand filter (I'm counting this as two 90 degree...

How do I fix this? Pool was built in 1968.

I need to paint our Elk's Lodge concrete pool and can't believe how many different types of pool paint are out there! I am looking at a 5 gallon bucket of "oil based swimming pool paint" by Zinsser for $109 or 5g bucket of "low sheen waterborn acryllic stain" by Pool Deck for $128. Are either...

Woo Hoo! My Elks Lodge 691 in Brunswick, Georgia finally has some money to upgrade our 55,000 gallon in ground gunite pool to saltwater. I've been browsing around researching SWCGs and would love to hear some recommendations. Price is a big factor, but so is reliability. At the moment, I am...

Bought Hayward wide-mouth, through wall skimmer for my Intex pool. The connection between the Intex hose and the PVC leaks badly. Seemed like the threads were solid, despite my having read somewhere on here that the Intex threads were not the same as PVC. Any ideas on how to make this...

Quandary - My new liner has two outlet ports that I did not anticipate. The attached pic I snagged from another thread, but it shows the 1-1/4" outlets with the little black doohickey. I have resigned myself to cutting one of them to a larger hole so I can use existing equipment (valve +...

Anyone got any helpful hints or tricks on how to get the wrinkles out before refilling?

Need math help. 68% cal-hypo costs $70 for 25 pounds. 10.5% bleach costs $7 for 5 gallons (actually $3.50 per 2.5 g container) I don't know how to compare solid weight to liquid volume. Which is more cost-efficient?

Our Elks in ground, concrete pool has lost about 2/5 of its water since it got covered in early October. Last year, local pool service did something (I don't know what) concerning a valve in the main drain. Now they are talking about doing a "pressure test" for a $1,000 fee to see if the main...

I just bought a new Intex pump & sand filter model SF60110 (the 2460 GPH model). It keeps tripping the built in GFCI and thereby shutting itself, after running for a few hours. I can't figure out why as the GFCI and the SWG isn't tripping and neither is the GFCI on the electrical outlet which...

The low salt indicator light comes on, but the display does not flash the code for salt being too low. Now that I've added salt and it's had a day or two to dissolve, it's a wee bit on the high side per test strip. So why is the light still on?

This sounds like a silly question, but..... Does dead algae clump and fall to the bottom? What is this stuff that always needs to be vacuumed up whenever I have to SLAM the pool? At home, my wife thinks it's just debris or pollen from the trees. At Lodge, I thought it was sand from the...

OMG, I am wading into the Deep End. I'm probably going to drown but here goes....... Adding Cal-hypo is adding Ca(ClO)2, which reacts with the water H2O to get hypochlorous acid (HClO) which means there is leftover one calcium, one hydrogen and two oxygens. I haven't had chemistry since high...

I have to go to pool store to buy my "liquid chlorine" (as they love to call it, a/k/a 10.5% bleach) as it's the best deal in town money-wise. He keeps trying to get me to bring in a water sample to test for phosphates "because they consume chlorine which is probably why you are using so much...

I am a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Brunswick Lodge 691. We have A 50' x 25' old plaster pool (from 4 to 8.5 feet deep, I figure it's about 55,000 gallons) that is currently being serviced by a local pool company. It has a large tablet chlorinator (about 4' tall and 5...

I anticipate a heavy load on pool tomorrow for Memorial Day. Today, as I was vacuuming up a ridiculously large accumulation of crud on the floor since yesterday, I noticed water was cloudy, so I tested and surprise, FC was below 2 ppm. I added a gallon of 10% bleach to bring FC up to the...

Was testing water earlier this morning. TA test went from green to yellow after 11 drops. Supposed to turn red. Any ideas what that means? Am slamming, so FC 31, CYA should have been around 75-80 but tested out really low at 40-50. Suspect invalid test and will re-do at sundown. pH was high...

Last weekend, I patched some leaks in the pool and added about 2 feet of water. Tossed in 1 little bag of granular "shock" (either di- or tri- chlor) and floated 1/2 of a 3" hockey puck and just let that sit for a couple of days to see if pool still leaked. It did not. So, I finished filling...

Closed the pool, covered it, removed plumbing, all was well for a few months. Then the water level dropped drastically over a period of about a week. For the last month, the water level has continued to drop, but very slowly. Now there's about 5" of water left. Walk around inspection reveals no...

I don't understand why my eyes are burning, both b4 and after a really hard, long rain that overfilled the pool. After rain test results are: FC 4.5, combined chlorine (calcium carbonate) 0, pH 7.6, TA 80, borate 50. didn't test CYA but it was about 90 about a week ago. As for salt level...

I have an above ground pool that has perfectly good Intex plumbing for general circulation, filtration and SWG. Even though it's the middle of August, the pool is already starting to get uncomfortably cold due to all the shade. Cutting trees is NOT an option. I do not want to install a...

My two month old above ground pool is already getting cold and it's still August, so I am thinking about heating the water. The roof of my house faces south and would be ideal for solar heating as it gets very little shade, whereas the pool gets tons of shade. The biggest problem is that the...

All I can find out about the Intex 633T is that it's a little less than 1/2 HP, 115 volt, 325 watts and supposedly 2,500 GPH. The manual is woefully deficient in providing useful information. Does anyone actually know the specs on this pump? What is its maximum feet of head?

Swam in pool yesterday for hours very pleasantly. Got home late today, jumped in briefly. Now I itch like crazy and my eyes are burning. Going to bed w/o testing b/c I'm out of FC reagent. Thought the water smelled "chloriney" but didn't think twice about it. Was not in the water but for...

A friend of mine requested my help with her nasty, neglected pool. It's an Intex Vinyl at 7,600 gallons, pump and filter, no SWG. I used the last of my R 0871 and R 0013 to test her pool. It came back FC 0, CYA 0, TA 70, pH 7.0 or lower. Since she got it about 6 weeks ago, she has...

I'm sold on the idea of adding borates. Step #1 is to lower TA. I started today at 140 TA. Brought pH down to 7.0 with muriatic acid. Now to aerate to raise pH via aeration. Given my rather nifty aeration, how long should I anticipate this will take to raise pH back up to 7.5?