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Andrewp · 2025-05-03T12:11:31-0400

haroldo · 2025-05-03T12:10:03-0400

Rancho Cost-a-Lotta said:
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You will constantly be battling rising pH due to your high TA level.

Thanks Rancho. Noob question - what does this mean? Does it merely mean I have to control the levels with Muriatic acid routinely (which sounds ok)? Is this manageable? Your use of the word "battling" is what concerns me

Baxabillion · 2025-05-03T12:10:02-0400

@PoolStored @ajw22

User Error. It was 0.5/7.6/85/275/30. #dont forget to rinse your cup if you add chemical with the same cup you grab your sample with dot com

LisaBgame · 2025-05-03T12:07:40-0400

Lake Placid said:
That’s what I was afraid of. If you unscrew the unions to the filter, can you access the broken piston through the bottom port that connects to the filter?

I think I could. This may sound like a dumb question but will water come gushing out if I unscrew this? Do I just unscrew the bottom one?

I just bought this rubber strap wrench set

LisaBgame · 2025-05-03T12:07:36-0400

LisaBgame · 2025-05-03T12:06:50-0400

TheDrB · 2025-05-03T12:05:16-0400

Hey all,

We left the pool uncovered over the winter due to mobility issues, and it got nasty. We decided to full drain to make it easier to clean out and have noticed some wrinkles and folding in the liner along the pool edges. I was thinking that the water pressure would push them back out once we refill, but wanted to check with the gurus first. Any steps I need to take or be aware of as I proceed?

Thanks,
Jason

TheDrB · 2025-05-03T12:05:08-0400

TheDrB · 2025-05-03T12:05:06-0400

Pkern · 2025-05-03T12:04:05-0400

Hi all,
Thank you for the help - my SLAM process cleaned up the water well. My question is this: how low must the chlorine go before resuming the tests for the other levels? TIA

WiscoHunter1995 · 2025-05-03T12:00:41-0400

PoolStored said:
Depends on the type of cups you are contemplating.
Post pictures of the cups and potential channel brackets.
No idea what you are dealing with...

These are the cups that the pool company left me.

WiscoHunter1995 · 2025-05-03T12:00:38-0400

WiscoHunter1995 · 2025-05-03T12:00:35-0400

A1Somebody · 2025-05-03T11:53:22-0400

I was told years ago to lower alkalinity to turn off pump. pour a quart of muriatic acid in deep in of pool let it set. The theory was it burned a hole in the alkalinity. My TA is 160. My pH is 8.0. 15500 gal, Salt pool.cell 940 (C-15)

LordNorth · 2025-05-03T11:51:25-0400

PoolStored said:
I can't see the entire pool in those pictures, do you have a ladder? Light?

Here's the entire pool. Sorry it was taken through a screen.

I don't have ladder installed, but i do have lights. I cleaned them out when i started but apparently they gunked up again. I just have them another clean out and did get a load of algae out of them.

I added some DE the filter, hopefully the lights were the big problem. Not sure why I am getting zero FC drop and zero CC though if it is still an algae problem. Thoughts?

Thanks for the help. I'm thinking at this point I'm going to let the FC levels come back to normal, double check all of my values and start from scratch unless cleaning out the lights makes a serious/ quick difference.

Chris

LordNorth · 2025-05-03T11:51:16-0400

oguzal · 2025-05-03T11:47:08-0400

Attached is a more wider photo

oguzal · 2025-05-03T11:46:56-0400

aday31 · 2025-05-03T11:46:01-0400

Here they are

aday31 · 2025-05-03T11:45:57-0400

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aday31 · 2025-05-03T11:45:57-0400

oguzal · 2025-05-03T11:45:25-0400

ajw22 said:
You mean this Jandy valve?

It has nothing to do with your heater.

The valve selects between two return lines.

As set most water is going down pipe A and maybe 20% is going down pipe B.

I would clean away all the dried leaves from around the heater and pipes and pool equipment.

View attachment 641867

And does each return line correspond to one jet, currently both jets are working, whats b and a in the photo you draw

Jsf721 · 2025-05-03T11:44:40-0400

Newdude said:
Are you familiar with letting poolmath do the calcs for you ? (Upper left menu : effects of adding, swg ).

You can chose FC created, pump hours or %, once you select your model and your volume. If you enter 2 it will give you the 3rd, for example 10 hours at 25% will make X.X FC. Then you can mess with them all to find however you want to set it for next week. Maybe you want it to make 1.5 FC a day. Maybe you want it to do so in a 10 hour window. Poolmath is the bees knees here.

I am not but I will check it out.

aday31 · 2025-05-03T11:42:13-0400

I don’t know why the photos keep saying too large for the site to upload.

aday31 · 2025-05-03T11:36:47-0400

We also have a Hayward heater.

All saltwater systems. Do these help?

Thanks

Alexr54 · 2025-05-03T11:27:45-0400

I'm an automation nut. Everything from my aquarium to my pool.
Even setup an automated alert that announces when my clothes dryer cycle has finished.

Home Assistant is a cool thing.
I use MQTT/Mosquito for all of my home security devices (Ring) and smart locks.

tomas21 · 2025-05-03T11:26:51-0400

100% The aftermarket screen cap has held up solid with no issues, tears, etc... I am also being way more mindful of pressure increase and doing filter changes sooner which is probably also helping

JamesW · 2025-05-03T11:25:41-0400

JamesW said:
Can you show the system?

jfmorris · 2025-05-03T11:25:19-0400

Argh. I got some plumbing worked out, relocated the drain line to NOT be dead center under where I want the heater, poured gravel around that line to fill the trench, then setup a form, all yesterday morning and on my lunch hour.

At 2pm or so, the heavens opened up, and even though I tried to cover all the "diggings" with tarps, it was no use. Rain, wind and hail blew the tarps up, and filled every hole to the top with water. It was a flood a couple of inches deep at that end of the house in fact. No mixing of concrete for the pad will occur for days, more rain today, and then a gap until Thursday.

My plan is to put a couple of box fans blowing across the form to help dry the ground faster for a few days, and hope I can mix concrete Wednesday, and then cover with plastic once it sets.

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