Recent content by Cmcgrew

I just noticed that I have a leak at the outlet of my Polaris pump. I have done really well with the pool maintenance in the year and a half we've had the pool thanks to this group! I'm wondering if this is likely and easy fix that I can do myself or if I should call someone?

Today is the day! We've been in our house for about a month now and our CYA level is consistently around 135/140. (The pool store says it's 100 and we have totally perfect water). Anyway, we have a submersible pump that we have borrowed and are gonna go for it today. Here are some of my...

Thank you! Yes, I definitely think that's where the leak is. On the diagram, there are 3 parts that are labeled with number 9. Do you think I should go ahead and order all of them or just the seal plate gasket?

We are new home/pool owners. We have a Pentair model WF-28. When I run the pump, it has a small bit of water that pools when it's running. I didn't think much of it but now I'm wondering if we need to have it serviced or try to fix it ourselves. Is there a part (like a gasket) that we could...

Thank you! It mentions not using your pool pump to drain the water. I don't have any other way to drain the water. Is using a different submersible pump required? Is there anything I can do that would make using my pool pump okay? I am hoping to have this cost as little as possible (we just...

This may be a dumb question....When draining and adding city water, is it possible to do both at the same time...meaning can I drain to waste while having the pool filler turned on? ....or would that not have the same impact? I'm just wondering about maybe doing that a bit each day, testing the...

Okay, I just did a test. Here is what I got: Free chlorine: 4.2 ppm Combined chlorine: .2 pH:7.3 TA: 80 CH: 170 CYA: More than 100 I know that draining some of 9ur pool and refilling is in our future. What else will I need to do? Feeling a bit overwhelmed. I will be reading up on all this, but...

I will read up on all that and plan to drain the pool a bit very soon. I am going to redo my tests this afternoon and I'll post my results. I really appreciate all your help!

Thank you all. That is great advice. I figured I would need to remove water and ignore the pool store advice. I'll post my results soon. Also, we got a HUGE rain last night. The water level is super high right now. I am looking forward to seeing if that affected the cya level at all.

Yes, sorry...I mean k2006. Sorry... 😂