Recent content by carlh

None of the anecdotal reports of Maytronics' warranty service or their product reliability have impressed me.

I noticed that poolpartstogo.com has this pool cleaner that they label with a lifetime warranty and then state 3 year warranty elsewhere without any details. No mention of warranty of any sort on the Blue Torrent website. I submitted questions to both websites and so far have gotten one...

Re: Liquid Chlorine Prices Walmart isn't the only outlet whose supplier is messing with bleach concentration and keeping it a secret. Dollar General had their store brand 121 oz "concentrated" bleach on sale this week 2/$4, which is great except that as new stock comes in it's 6% instead of...

Liner replacement time. I can get either brand installed for the same price and in Plastimayd I can get 27/27 mil at no extra charge when choosing a "SuperMax" pattern. You hear that the floor doesn't need to be thick but most of the wear & tear of cleaning is pushing against the floor with...

Don' forget that a SWG doesn't run on sunlight unless you install a solar array to power it. You can find other posts here that suggest the watts burned by a SWG can exceed 300 - which is at least a $15 hit on the monthly bill, if not more depending on rates.

More information - I noticed that the technical manual said the warranty was one year, but the website link to the warranty said lifetime so I called the 800 number and spoke to a very nice lady at Hasa who told me that the plastic tank itself has a 1 year warranty, but all the moving/internal...

I didn't notice it came with a lifetime warranty until you said that - excellent! And thanks for all the other good feedback.

Did you notice that the words "the manual" in my post were a different color? That often means you can click the word or phrase for more information. Try it now - click on those words in the quoted section of my post above. There's also this thing called Google. Try Googling the words "Hasa...

No. Read the manual, bottom of page 4, and page 5. When free chlorine is removed from bleach, what remains is salt and water. The salt is heaviest and builds up in the bottom of the tank.

I'm thinking about a Liquidator as well - few more questions if the OP doesn't mind me re-using the topic instead of starting new? TIA. 1. My location has full sunlight. I can imagine paint on plastic peeling off. What kind of paint works best? 2. About removing salt from the bottom...

pH is 7.8 or maybe a touch higher. I hit it with a gallon of muriatic a couple months ago, knocked it down to 7.3 and it crept up over that period (adding nothing but bleach in the meantime). We had a 2-3" rain a couple weeks ago, no effect on the pH, guess there's no acid in our rain. Other...

Probably a bit more than luck. I've since talked to my (new) neighbor who has a nearly identical pool, and he doesn't lower the level, nor blows the lines, nor adds antifreeze, nor runs the pump in freezing temps. He's had his pool far longer than mine has been in the ground, and both pools...

Topic Split by Moderator OK, I read through the posts in this topic and nobody really suggested anything close to what the guy from the local pool place did last season. This is a 22000 gal Aqua Star pool, vinyl liner, originally installed by the same pool place. That time, pool closing here...

BTW, since I'm going be so careful about shocking the pool next time, TFP and poolcalculator.com have a difference of opinion about required shock level. With CYA of 50, the chlorine/CYA chart calls for 20, while poolcalculator calls for 16. So who's right?

For reasons I won't go into further, I don't have the ability to measure FC levels at sunrise or even hours after sunrise. So confirming zero loss of FC overnight is not available to me right now. So you are correct, I did not follow the letter of the "how to shock your pool" law. Still, I...