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Ran my spa today and was surprised to find the water level 4" below the tile. Worked the problem and discovered that the return side PSX valve (PSV3S2 with GVA-24 on top) is leaking and allowing hot water to return to the pool (single pump system). So, seems I need to rebuild that valve, and...

As a southern pool owner (TX) I pulled the trigger a number of years ago on a switch from pucks to LC. Just got tired of fighting high CYA and decided I'd rather be surprised by a 6 month CYA crash and pay more to run LC than deal with toggling back and forth (pucks to LC to pucks) to keep CYA...

Have been doing some maintenance on my pool lately, which included pulling and reseating the lights (Hayward colorlogic LPCUN11100). In the course of that I pulled the faces and noticed that they've faded quite a bit, with one almost white. So, I'm considering repainting them to get them...

Had a crack form in our spa after 7 years. Finally got the pool builder to repair it after 1.5 years of back and forth (praise the lord), which involved demoing/concrete patching/replastering the spa (grey NPT quartzscape). Everything has been mostly fine. However, in the 2-3 weeks it's been...

First, I've searched the forums, and I've read previous posts about black algae (some quite old). However, I haven't found exactly the conversation I'm looking for... so here goes. I live in Austin, TX, with an in-ground pool with glass tile, epoxy grout, and a pebble mix plaster (name escapes...

Howdy all. So, at year 5 of living in the south with an IGP I've finally decided to say goodbye to pucks forever and just switch over to liquid chlorine. Pucks are manageable, but I'm just tired of switching back and forth to try and keep my CYA in some kind of workable range... I'd rather...

Hayward Prologic with Colorlogic lights (I think) To summarize, we had a power outage the other day, and my spa light won’t turn off. When I power cycle the lights (circuit breaker or service mode for 30 seconds) the pool lights (2) will come on as well as the system reboots/tests, the pool...

Not sure if Pumps, Filters... is the right channel for this, but didn't seem to be another clear fit. As the title summarizes, I've had an inline Pentair chlorinator since install (pucks) and I'm considering/looking at switching this over to a liquid set-up. Wanted to get advice/insight from...

We're located in Austin, TX. Put the pool in about 4 years ago. Equipment includes an H400FDN Hayward heater, which we largely use to heat the spa year round (less heating in the summer, and pool rarely gets so cold you can't swim). I maintain the whole system largely myself with warranty and...

C-4030 Hayward Filter (I think... it's a 4 filter in ground system, but I often get the size wrong) Bit the bullet and replaced my old OEM Hayward filters with new Pleatco filters based on a bunch of research and $75 lower price. Haven't had them in long enough to review them, but running into...

After a little under 5 years of dutifully cleaning my four filters every spring and fall I'm looking to replace the OEM filters for my Hayward filter. I could probably keep going, but the last time I pulled them they were pretty dirty in the core, and I think 5 years is probably a good enough...

I've got a Hayward SwimClear pool filter, not sure which model but maybe C4030? It's got four filter cartiridges inside of it. I've had the pool in operation for about 4 years in Austin, TX, and I dutifully clean the filters about every 6-8 months. Basically I do it in the late spring and do...

For awhile now my temp sensor has been throwing weird results. The control board doesn't show any error, but whenever I turn on the spa (we only use it for the spa here in TX) it will often get WAY HOTTER than the 97f I have it set to (kids). I also find it tends to swing from time to time...

I'm currently super shocking my pool, meaning I've been maintaining my FC around 30ppm for the last few days in an attempt to eradicate some annoying black algae that's been taking off in the horizontal grout under the waterline (I have glass tile on ledges and steps, and for some reason the...

I have a Hayward variable with a Hayward controller, can't remember the numbers off the top of my head but recent (2-3 years old). Our pool has a pool and spa on a single heater/unified system, with the spa farthest from the pad and the pool kind of lengthwise in between it and the pad. My...

Had our pool put in a couple of years ago, FINALLY got the pool builder to send the stone masons back out to fix some legacy problems from a worker who was too aggressive sanding/grinding the spillover stones (turned them into anything but squares). It occurred to me that the sanding and...

So, when I put in my pool the PB never brought up the idea of an overflow system, and after some crazy rains here in Austin (and some overflow situations) I'm thinking of putting in an overflow valve. Looking to get some sage advice from folks on my plan. The plan is to put the overflow at the...

New pool, opened about 5 months ago. I've been balancing the chems regularly, cleaning it, and keeping everything in tip top shape. However no matter what I do I can't seem to get my Free Chlorine over 0.2. At first I thought maybe my test kit was old (Taylor K-2006), but when I shock the...

In our first season with our new pool one annoying feature I've found with the ProLogic system our pool builder installed is the fact that the Aux circuits only have a single timer setting each day (will turn on/off only on cycle in a day). Why it works this way I have no idea... how much...

Wrapping up our pool project (Austin, TX) and have decided to add in an auto-fill. Didn't want to pay the upgrade initially, but doing some research I've discovered the better option (to me) of plumbing it at the pad. Will likely make it manual at first, but I'm planning to eventually add in a...

We're nearing the end of our build and trying to lock down our plaster choice, looking for some insight on these products. Our PB kind of browbeat us to go with a pebble product initially, which is how we landed on Crystalstones. However, neither the wife or I really like the look of pebble...