Recent content by AidanDanner

Hello! Thanks to you guys, my in-ground pool's been doing great this summer, here in sunny Southern California. I've been self-testing weekly, and I just use liquid chlorine, with some muriatic acid once a week to drop the pH down. (A few times a year, I might add some calcium to bump up...

Hi ya'll! I have a five-year-old Hayward TriStar VS 950 Omni Variable Speed Pump, and it recently occurred to me that I haven't touched the thing since its installation in 2019 (besides regularly cleaning the pool pump basket). I was wondering (and apologies for the n00b question)... do these...

@Texas Splash , thank you! I had no idea the system pulls air "in" when the pump goes off. I investigated, and the culprit was the pump lid o-ring. Fixed!

Hello TFP'ers! In recent days I've noticed that when my system fires up in the morning, there seems to be air in the system: the pump struggles a bit while priming, a surge of air gets pumped into the water, then things normalize and everything looks and sounds normal for the remainder of the...

Gentlemen, no surprise, you are correct, my FC drops down too far over a 24-hour period: FC 2.2 CC 2.3 pH 7.8 TA 95 CH 264 CYA 39 Water temp 82 degrees This might be a question for another forum, but what's best to correct this: increase the amount of chlorine that I use in my morning routine...

I've done what you asked and added the pool equipment in my signature; apologies for not doing so earlier. I'm chlorinating every morning with 10% sodium hypochlorite. In the heat of the summer, I'm using 48 ounces daily. The only other thing that I find that I need to do (besides the...

Thanks to you kind folks at TFP, I've been maintaining my own (Los Angeles) pool for a number of years now. My water's crystal clear, always balanced to TFP-recommended levels, however I've found that during the hottest summer months here in Los Angeles, I've needed to add, once weekly, a...

Thank you! I'm relatively new to maintaining my own pool, so I just wanted to make sure I wasn't unnecessarily burning money on chlorine, due to some unidentified problem with the water. (The pool is in partial shade during various parts of the day, which I'm sure is helping to keep the...

I have a 16,000-galloon in-ground pool, and during the summer months here in Los Angeles, I find that I need to add 48 ounces of chlorine daily in order to maintain around 4 ppm of free chlorine/total chlorine. (Which translates to over two gallons of 10% sodium hypochlorite every week.) My...

Thank you, I'll try that gelled acid product. I also looked for a kieserite blasting service, and was a little shocked that there doesn't appear to be one in the Los Angeles area. That is so very surprising....

Hello! I just got great advice in the "Pumps, Filters, and Plumbing" forum, helping me perform my very first pool repair on my very own, so I thought I'd come back for seconds. We've had our pool for about four years, and before I took ownership of its maintenance (guided by the all the wisdom...

Success! You guys gave the confidence to just give it a good torque with a pipe wrench, and that's all it needed. It broke free, came off easy, the replacement went on easy. I now again have an operational flap -- not just for safety purposes, but the little notch on the flap really helps...

Thank you, guys! I will climb in the pool this weekend and get to work. Will report back.

Thanks to all of you at TFP, two years ago I took ownership of maintaining my own pool, and the water's never been better. All the information and wisdom shared here is much appreciated. I have what I hope is a quick and easy question. Our Hayward vacuum-lock safety wall fitting (a.k.a., pool...