Recent content by Arizoniann

Hello, Everyone! I live in Arizona, and it really bothers me that almost every day I find little geckos or lizards, often tiny babies, who fell in the pool and got trapped/drowned in the skimmer basket. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? A friend told me to put floaties in the pool...

I did do a complete water change, then had a guy come out and clean the tile. The cover isn’t watertight, and we replace it every October, the pop ups on the Baja step are pretty powerful and often the cover moves a bit when the popups come on at the steps. I’m very happy with the tile cleaning...

Good gracious, I saw the little plastic “x” shaped piece in my new TFP kit and didn’t know what it was, I almost threw it away. Then I tried my smart stir and thought “This isn’t really stirring. Maybe the batteries are dead.” The smart stir hardly made a sound and barely jiggled, but the light...

Hello everyone! I live in the Phoenix area. We have a heat pump and a cover on our pool so that we can use it even in the winter months. I’m having trouble with water from the pool resting on top of the cover, the water evaporates, leaving a lot of calcium/sodium (I believe) residue on top of...

But I do see how dusty dirty is! I need to look into building a pump cover!

Thank you for your replies, I don't know what I would do without TFP. I got my pool 4 years ago and when I initially googled "How to take care of a pool without a pool guy" I found TFP. I have been following their methods ever since. I have never had a green pool, and I'm so thankful for...

I do keep the keypad closed. I opened it to view it and took the picture. :)

My filter wasn't turning on at its schedule times. I pressed the power button and it eventually would turn on, but no water would pass through. I called the pool service people (from the company who built my pool), and they told me to come pick up a new O ring and try that. I lubed and...

I appreciate everyone’s input so much. I did change my filter schedule to run on high the final three hours of the cycle, and that has made a big difference, but I’ll re-evaluate after the next dust storm.

I'm not able to turn off my pop-ups. They run when the filter is on. But thank you for your input! :) - - - Updated - - -

I am looking at the Dolphin s300i [emoji4]

We have lived in AZ for three years now, our pool is three years old. I've been following TFP from the beginning, fully embracing their methods :) We have an in-floor cleaning system, and it works great during the fall, winter, and spring months. I brush the walls and floor once a week during...

TFP has a Facebook page? I can’t find it.