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We have taken our S200 apart 3 times. First it was leaking from the bulkhead fitting. We bought a new one and replaced. We had to take the dome off and replace the sand. When we put it back together it started leaking where the tank head (dome) and base come together. We took the bolts off...

The water is very clear right now but there is dirt looking stuff at the bottom in the deep end. We back wash the filter like once a week. Should I backwash before vacuuming?

Thanks everyone for all your help. I did add the CYA and calcium-hypo. My kit arrived today and I did all the tests. Here are the results: FC- 9 ppm CC- 0 TC- 9 ppm pH- 7.2 T/A- 160 CH- 150 CYA- 30 Ok what do I do now? I need to vacuum but I am paranoid to do it.....

Ok so that is exactly what we use for chlorine. We go through a lot of it imo. We have never added calcium in 8 years of having the pool. We do not cover the pool except when we winterize it. We do have a lot of trouble with algae. It will go from clear blue to green in days and then my dear...

Wow I had no idea what CYA even was. We filled the pool about a month ago. We just had "treated" (I think just chlorinated) pool water delivered. All we have added since filling is chlorine granules calcium hydrochlorite 73%. We also added hth super concentrated clarifier when it was cloudy but...

When I vacuum I turn off the pump, plug in the hose, turn the pump back on (never changing the multiport). We do have a main floor drain. We don't have a variable speed pump.

OK I did check out the spider gasket and everything looks fine with the gasket. I cleaned it and put it back together. I went and ordered the Taylor 100 kit but it will probably take a few days to arrive. I went to our pool store and bought the recommended kit there. (figure something is...

It did stop after a while (maybe 2 min). The pool was clear and blue when I started. Now it is cloudy and whitish blue. It plumed out of each return when I started vacuuming and the subsided after a while. Not sure why this is happening. Is the pool test kit really going to tell me that though...

First of all let me say thank you for responding and thanks for trying to help me out. We do have a multiport. We usually vacuum on the filter setting. Perhaps I am doing this wrong. Sorry if I am coming across as a moron. We got no information with our pool when we bought our house. My...

OK sorry but what is a multiport? Is there a way for me to "fix" this problem? Any recommendation for an inexpensive simple test kit.

I don't have any test results. Honestly in the 8 years we have owned the pool my husband has used the above described method. It has always done this to a small extent. The pool company sai dit was because we needed new sand but that has seemed to make it much worse not better.

Ok I am relatively new to this. My husbands method of pool care is dump a lot of chlorine in until it is bluish and then dump a lot of clarifier in until it is clearish. We have an IG gunite pool 28000 gallons. We have a Hayworth sand filter. This year we had emptied the pool to do some tile...

Seriously..... A "basement" is the cellar. Is that a New England only thing???

We have had our pool for about 5 years. It is a gunite IG 28,000 gallon with a Hayward S200 high rate sand filter. Bought from previous owners. We have done little to nothing except add chlorine till the water looked okay. We had the local pool company open and close it every year for us. Last...

Thanks Bruce. I think the crack you see is just ick. I went out and looked at the pool and I don't see anything. From a diy perspective how hard it putting up the tile? We have boxes of them in our basement...