Recent content by ba67

I'm not sure what service we have. I'm going to let my pool guy install it because it comes with a 3 year warranty if it is installed by a licensed pool professional. I really appreciate all of information that you provided to me. I think we will get the variable speed pump since it comes...

Since the VSP pump has a built in timer, the cost difference is now only $400 since I was planning on adding a timer anyway. Since our pool is surrounded by trees, I'm curious to know if the Superflo VSP pump is more likely to suffer damage if the skimmer gets clogged with leaves and the pump...

Does the VSP SuperFlo's timer allow you to turn the pump completely off at night instead of just running it on the lowest speed at night and can it be set to turn back on at a certain time in the morning? Can you shut it off quickly and easily when you need to shut off the pump for some reason...

Our old Hayward Super pump has a seized motor and I have been told by a pool pro that we need to purchase a new pump. He recommends getting either a Pentair SuperFlo High Performance single speed pump or a Pentair SuperFlo VST variable speed pump. We hope to only own this house for a 3-4 more...

We opened up our pool yesterday and discovered that the pump was broken after unwinterizing everything. My husband was unable to fix it so he wants me to call our pool guy to come look at it. It may be a week or two before we get the pump fixed since our pool guy is swamped doing openings...

We can't get our pump to turn on at opening. We hear a humming sound when we turn it on but the pump turn on. All of the plugs on the pump and sand filter were put back in and we filled the pump up with water to prime it. It looks like the guy who closed our pool did not turn off the...

I didn't realize that the cover needed to be off to burn off the CCs so that is good to know. If I'm supposed to wait a full day before adding CYA, should I bother adding chlorine that first day, except at night since the sun will burn it off really quickly due to low CYA? Chlorine is getting...

I planned on doing a soft opening of our mesh-covered pool for the first time this year so I could keep the cover on until the trees surrounding our pool stop dropping debris into our pool. I peeked under the cover and the water is already green and there are leaves and bunch of dead worms in...

I called an electrician and he recommended a wifi extender so a wifi timer can be installed by the pump. Do you happen to know of any good Wifi timers that are reliable and relatively inexpensive?

Is it possible to get an on/off switch installed inside the house for the pump? If so, would it likely cost a lot to get this switch installed by an electrician? There are always bees near the pump so I'd like to be able to turn it off and on from inside the house. I know that I could buy a...

I know that chlorine will oxidize polyquat so I know that it wouldn't be wise to add any chlorine now. I was asking if it would potentially help if I added some more polyquat in a few months while draining water out since I know that the rain will dilute the polyquat and what little chlorine is...

Since the water temperature was 65 degrees at closing and we had a week of warm weather in the 70s/lower 80s after closing, I worry that the FC is already at 1 ppm or 0 now since it was below minimum FC after adding the polyquat before closing. I just wanted to know if adding polyquat with a...

It looks like the water temperature is finally down to 60 degrees, even though we've had a lot of warm days since closing. Water temperature was 65 degrees at closing.

I was talking about adding polyquat instead of adding liquid chlorine. I thought that you weren't supposed to add liquid chlorine if you closed with polyquat because the liquid chlorine would degrade the polyquat. If I added chlorine instead, wouldn't the polyquat just consume it like it did...

I added polyquat to my pool several weeks ago before closing and it surprisingly dropped FC to below minimum FC level for my CYA. This concerns me because its been warm since closing so FC might be at zero by now. When I expressed my concerns about this FC drop to my experienced pool guy, he...