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    bubbles in pump strainer glass

    Thanks,would water be coming out when this happens,and what should I do now dig and follow the line,also should I been losing water in the pool because it still gets good suction when I use the creepy crawler but I have not been using it until I no what's going on. Thanks again for your help.
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    bubbles in pump strainer glass

    When closing the valve off on main drain my filter basket has alot of bubbles in there and also shooting out the jets in the pool. When closing off the skimmer I get no bubbles,where can I start checking to find the problem. Thank's
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    leak in the area of skimmer in grass

    I noticed that there were small bubbles in my pump threw the glass and coming from the jets in the pool,I have a 15,000 in ground salt pool thats 3 years old. I shut the skimmer down and it stops,I still can use the the pool cleaner and it has good flow and creepy crawler also works good,what...
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    buying replacement filter Cartridges

    when i googled it i should of read the whole story not just the headlines all i seen was Pool-filter cartridges can run for about 2,000 hours in a filter pump. so if i ran it 8 hrs a day thats well over a year or more.i am learning this pool stuff on the fly because i was tired of paying $75.00...
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    buying replacement filter Cartridges

    i have been changing my cartridge filter about every 8-10 months,that's about 100.00 a year.i see different threads say every 2000 hours and one guy said every 2 years,what i would like to no if there is any where that i can buy a box of filters like with 6 or more in them.i have a 15,000...
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    can a pool raise up out of the ground

    yep thats what i had to do last week but i still think the the two pipes are connected to the system because i popped off both caps where i found them sticking out of the ground and i believe one was a sump pump for ground water and the other was a discharge line,i just got to figure out what...
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    can a pool raise up out of the ground

    -------------------------- i do have a cartridge filter,my last pool had a backwash valve never had this type,sorry it took so long it wasn't taking my pictures. .thank's
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    can a pool raise up out of the ground

    thanks for that info i went and seen how it's done on you tube,what i need to no is what valves have to be opened or closed to pump out my pool ,i found out that those pipes that were sticking out of the ground is a discharge line and to backwash the filter but don't no what position the valves...
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    can a pool raise up out of the ground

    That was something else,first time I seen that and now I'm glad I only drained half the pool,but if I ever have to do it again I would like to no which valves to shut off or turn on,I'm thinkin one of those two pipes in the ground is the discharge,there not glued and they pop right off I would...
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    can a pool raise up out of the ground

    I have a salt water pool in south florida about a mile from the intercoastal and started to get algae and my salt was above 5500ppm,I was told to drain my pool or at least 2/3 of it.I found out if I do that my pool would raise up out of the ground,is this true. So I went and rented a trash pump...
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    pentair intelliflo vsp

    =============== Thanks for the help but this pool is not even 6 months old why should I dump more money into it,another guy told me to take the timer off the wall,I'm pretty confused and ****** off of the way the installer is handleing this. He has got a poblem with me because the home builder...
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    pentair intelliflo vsp

    Exactly, thats what I have to do turn it on daily and yes to both questions , the guy who installed the pool was ****** off because my poolman who comes once a week took the pins off the timer, the worst advice is when I called pentair and he told me to get an electrician and disconnect the...