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    Torrential Rains in SC overflowed my pool

    scattered leaves in shallow end, silt on stairs and ladder. Bout as much as I can tell at the moment
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    Torrential Rains in SC overflowed my pool

    Update! I dragged the bottom with the scoop net and managed to get a bunch of debris out. Mostly leaves and straw. After lots of Rum, I decided to turn on the pump. I run a cartridge filter. After a couple hours, I realized I was losing the flow. I popped the cartridges out and between...
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    Torrential Rains in SC overflowed my pool

    Some advice please, Lets presume the pool has dirt and debris in the bottom from the rain runoff. I have a cartridge filter and a pumpside polaris. I ran the polaris for five minutes and the bag filled up. I am going to start scraping the bottom with the net. Should I run the pump? I...
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    Torrential Rains in SC overflowed my pool

    Beer may not cut this, may need copious amount of hard liquor LOL
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    Torrential Rains in SC overflowed my pool

    thanks so much. I was hoping that was the answer. Much more work, but better that way. I have the vac hose in and am siphoning it down now but we have 4 more hours of torrential rains they say
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    Torrential Rains in SC overflowed my pool

    So I had my level down low in preparation for some serious rain but I wasn't prepared for the road behind me to overflow into the neighbors yard and wash down into my pool )c: How much of the pool am I going to have to drain to get it back to where I can get the chems correct...
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    Switch to a robotic from 280?

    thanks all. going robotic but will keep my 280 handy for fall leaf season (c;
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    Switch to a robotic from 280?

    We have a 280 in the pool now and it seems like I break an axle every 6 months. It tends to get stuck at times as we'll. it's 6 years old now and I am considering replacing it with a dolphin deluxe 3 or a dolphin nautilus. I know the dolphins will clean better but are they worth the hustle to...
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    Concrete pool up north

    Mats, Please accept my condolences on the loss of your mom. These are trying times for you and your family and you will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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    Concrete pool up north

    <--- Cart user and no pressure change unless I change the pump speed. I decided to pull and clean mine this year after the bulk of the spring pollen stopped. Once a year seems to be the norm from other I have talked too.
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    Pool base soft & vinyl wear from polaris?

    Any thoughts? I am really POd about the liner. the pool is not even a year old and that wear is across the whole width of the pool at the transition line. It appears that the polaris is sucking pretty hard on that line for some reason. I caught it in the same spot for a good 3 or 4 minutes...
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    Pool base soft & vinyl wear from polaris?

    Think of it like a tank track is what I was told. it forces the wheels to turn together and supposedly prevents it from slowly proceeding down the transition like it does to make this wear. He also moved the rear jet to 11 o'clock. He indicated that that itself might alleviate the run doen...
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    Pool base soft & vinyl wear from polaris?

    ~sigh~ he says that it is likely a ground water seep pushing up. He implied it was because that are was backfill and that the water weight pushed the "spring" that was underneath the pool that way. When he put the pool in he put a dead man in there that I thought was supposed to take care of...
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    high CYA?

    hahaha I can't read the tube. you are correct, it is more like 0 as the top of the tube says 20 not 200 :oops: Thanks. Off to the store )c:
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    high CYA?

    Last night's numbers (Saturday was about the same) PH 7.8 FC 3.0 CC 0.5 TC 3.5 TA 80 CYA 200 <--- ?!?! I almost overflowed the CYA tube. I was worried I had messed up the test last Saturday when I saw CYA at over 200 (past the line) but it came out the same yesterday. I am pretty sure this...