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Several days ago, my pump's motor just decided to stop working. No humming or buzzing or overheating. It just quit. And then, as I was researching replacement motors, it fired back up again (I'd left it on the timer), sounded fine, wasn't getting hot, and it ran for a few days. Then it quit...

I have a Hayward pump, but my basket lid looks different from yours. It has two protruding ridges running across the top, so there's something to grab ahold of to shove. Early on, I had problems getting the lid off. I used rubber mallets, also a pipe wrench fitted across those two ridges (gently...

I have some more info to report on this pump mystery. Yesterday morning, the pump started up normally -- when the timer triggered it to "on." It ran all day and lasted until it shut off. This had me stumped, so I was looking forward to this morning to see if it would repeat this behavior and it...

I know it was 0.75, based on the literature I've found on the pump. My question was would it hurt anything to run a more powerful motor. Yeah, checking the line voltage is something that occurred to me after I posted the above note. I sure hope that isn't the problem. The motor is about 60 feet...

Well, yesterday morning I was wondering why the pump hadn't kicked on, come to find out it should have. The timer tripped. I checked the breaker box and no breakers have tripped. This motor is not that old -- maybe 2 or 3 years. Which has me wondering -- what is the likelihood that maybe a wear...

Just a quick follow up. I finally broke down and RTFM'd. I saw a note in it, mentioning wear on the shoes -- what I was calling the feet. The manuals sez the shoes should be replaced when they wear down to about 1/4" thick. Well, my machine's shoes' thickness isn't that thin, but close. So I...

For the past several weeks my little Pool Vac XL has been zipping along the bottom and sides of my pool, getting the job done with few issues. About the only time it would stop would be if it sucked up too many leaves or sticks which ended up jamming the impeller. But once I cleared the jams, it...

Mine is not a salt water pool. Maddie, I know all that stuff. I was merely asking if you run the pump to circulate the chlorine. Seems to me you'd have to for at least a few hours. Those numbers from a few days ago must have just been a strange little anomaly. Today's numbers were back within...

CYA is 40. Maddie, just to make sure I'm following your recommendations, namely "take it up to 10 tonight (test to confirm)" I'm assuming here that if I add the additional bleach to bring it up to 10 ppm tonight that I should also run the pump to make sure the bleach has been well circulated...

Folks, I've been testing my pool's FC and CC numbers every morning and adding chlorinating liquid as required. I've been shooting for a 7ppm balance and typically with my pool I'm having to add anywhere from 40 oz to 64 oz of bleach a day. The actual numbers I'm seeing are usually around 3.5 to...

Eek, what a horror story! I'm kinda new here, too. These folks helped me rescue my pool that looked a lot worse than yours. Picture pea green soup, and you'll be close. Fortunately, I didn't have a clueless contractor to pick up after -- just a pool service that had been abusing our pool for the...

Well, it's been several days since I've posted a comment here. Haven't really needed to. I've settled into a routine now of testing the pool water every morning after I've made my first cup of coffee. I just have a seat in the backyard with my trusty TF-100 kit and test the FCs and CCs every...

Jimen, I'm still kinda new here too, so consider my comment to be about equal parts question, but from what I understand, CYA isn't used to control the pH. It's used to keep the chlorine from being burned up too rapidly by sunlight. One of the problems inherent with CYA is it doesn't go away...

The last couple of boxes I bought were from a Home Depot location that had been out of stock when I bought my first couple of boxes. So I'm sure this batch they have should be reasonably fresh. Those boxes aren't quite up to the task, though, so it isn't unusual at all to see a bunch of loose...

At last, the pool survived the OCLT test. Whew! I'm gonna do a complete test later today, once the sun is up further, so I can do a good CYA test. I'm thinking that number is going to determine where exactly I want to keep my CL level at.