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Hello all, In my quest to make every mistake a pool owner can, I decided to replace the non-working light in my in-ground pool. I unscrewed it, got it to the surface, and saw that water seemed to have gotten into the light and wreaked havoc. I unscrewed the six screws holding the face plate and...

Hello again. Last year, my first as a pool owner, I had great success with the BBB method. I made the foolish decision to let the pool turn into a swamp over the winter, but I got it back to blue, if not clear, at the beginning of this season with bleach and some dichlor shock (I never got it to...

Greetings all, I posted a while back about some pump troubles. I managed to install the new pump motor without trouble; the fourth or fifth time I fit everything back together and it's worked a treat since. However, in the last few days, the pump has developed a bit of a clattering sound that...

Greetings: I just got back from a vacation of eleven days. While we were gone, I turned off my skimmers and set the pump to run about four hours each night. On our return, the breaker to the pump had been tripped and our friend who was watching the house said there were no electrical problems...

Greetings all: I've only been a pool owner for about five months now. With the help of TFP, we've been free of the pool guy and the pool store for almost that whole time. We're looking ahead to maybe some plaster repairs (there's a patch maybe a total of two feet in diameter on the bottom of...