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So we just had a stamped concrete deck poured around our pool. The "contractor" paid no mind when throwing out the powder release onto the concrete and quite a lot of it ended up in the pool. It floated on the top for a while and then mixed into the water. The pool is very cloudy. We have a...

Update - got 3 trucks of water, so 18,000 gallons, today. I started filling up from the well yesterday morning. I'd let it run for a few hours, then cut it off for an hour, then repeat. I'm guessing we're 75% of the way there. Should be full tomorrow afternoon.

Looking for some input. I've had the Nautilus Dolphin CC (without wifi) in the past and had good results with it. We moved about a year ago and are rehabbing the pool at our new place. New liner went in today so I need to get a pool cleaner. I have accounts at 2 local pool places. One has...

This guy is doing our liner. He's not being hired to do anything else. So it's not like he's being paid to install the equipment and I'm sitting over here second guessing him. We were just looking at the equipment as I was throwing out the old stuff and he mentioned that I should upgrade to...

It's our pool so I would be that someone. And I do not see us adding a pool heater or anything else anytime soon so the issue of someone overloading the subpanel is not really an issue. I have run circuits before and have done a good amount of electrical work so upgrading this circuit would...

Rehabbing an old pool at our house. It was running an Aquarite, super pump, and boost pump. I threw all the equipment out and bought an Omnilogic and a 2.7hp Tristar. Haven't hooked it up yet as we are still in the process of having the liner replaced, but the circuit that was ran to the...

So bypass the water softener but still run it through the sediment filter and the bobby filter at the end of the hose? I'm also going to put a CuLator in the pump basket and polyfill in the skimmer baskets, at least initially.

I was thinking of getting 2 truck loads of water (roughly 12k gallons) which would at least fill the deep end up, then fill the rest from the well. I'm estimating 40k gallons. It might be a little less. 8' deep and roughly 42' Grecian true L.

I'd be using the water from the water softener to fill it in the first place. I'm not filling it directly from the well. It'll go through a sediment filter, then the water softener, then a bobby filter at the end of a garden hose. I'll buy some polyfill just in case I run into any issues, then I...

That's odd. We filled our last pool up with city water. I just pulled our city's water data and their iron is 0.085ppm from one source and 0.144ppm from another source. This is from 2019 data. So if there's roughly 0.1ppm iron in our city water, why did our pool not have even the faintest...

We're replacing the liner and some wall panels and will need to fill our roughly 40k gallon pool with water soon. Water delivery is about $350/6000 gallons so we'd be looking at close to $2400 if we had city water delivered. I'm leaning towards using our well to fill the pool. We have a water...

The deck jets will be powered by the single pump. They won't be used much. I'm not sure what our TDH is, but even worst case we're still looking at 100+ GPM from this pump.

We just bought a house with a 40k gallon IG vinyl liner pool. I knew it needed a new liner and equipment but that has turned into replacing a couple polymer walls, removing a buddy seat, adding returns, adding deck jets, replacing the light in the deep end, adding 2 smaller lights to the...

That might be an option. I know Bondo makes a fiberglass repair kit. I'm going to have a pool builder come out and take a look and see what he says first.