Recent content by BMerrill

Thank you.

Thank you.

Live in planting Zone 8A. Working on adding a tropical landscape look. If you have that tropical landscape look, share some pictures and plants you are/have/will be using. Post away.

Pool is 74° here in eastern North Carolina.

Welcome to Trouble Free Pools for a follow North Carolinian. From Beaufort originally, now in Ayden. When you can fill out your signature an get the Pool Math app.

Consider the FlowVis. Its not digital, so you have to read it yourself. Around $200. I have one. Made a chart of flow rate, voltage, and RPM's used. Its more than paid for it self in energy savings.

Typically laminars are not piped on a loop but utilize individual valves to each laminar allowing flow adjusts for water arch height matching. All of the valves are placed together in a valve box located near the pool (mine is in the landscaping bed about 15' away from the pool) and feed from...

Since the proposed location does not meet the clearances... not sure you can install a heater in the same location again. Contact you local permitting office before proceeding further. Heater BTU maybe limited by gas line and pressure size. Permits (Electrical, Gas) should be pulled by the...

Order placed this morning.

Consider investing in a BETTA surface skimming robot. Runs on solar power. Mine does well except for very fine pollen.

Where and/or how is everyone storing their poles with brush and leaf net attached?

Interesting. Verify you have 240 across the incoming lines at the main bus bars of this panel. If no 240, you have lost a leg. If this is a sub panel, check feeding breaker in the main panel. If yes, the breaker is bad, replace. The reason you have 120 from each leg to ground but not 240 when...

Reference to page 26 of the OmniLogic Installation Manual (Download current version from Hayward's website) for the configuration of the heater, cooldown, extend runtime and valve. Once set-up, when heat is called for the heater bypass valve will divert water through the heater and will remain...

Good point by JJ_Tex. I was fortune enough to have installed my system and had mapped where everything was located (I'm a Surveyor). Construction only impacted 3 of 10 zones. Minor damage to a few heads and one broken pipe. After the pool was in installed a new zone around the pool, heads moved...