Recent content by dandannoodles

I'm in Orange County. Super nice of you to offer. At the moment, I'm in touch with Pentair and they sent me a form to fill out, which will put my products under warranty. Assuming I can get some info from my pool builder, Pentair said they can submit a work order and have someone come out and do...

I've been going through CYA and salt like crazy. And the chlorinator is cranked up. So looks like I just need to buy an o-ring, the removal tool and silicone lube...

Yep, I saw this. So looks like it's ok not to have a flooded conduit? Assuming I follow these instructions? Ok to do this underwater?

My pool is leaking! I isolated the leak to one of the Microbrite LEDs, as it connects to the fitting. Here's a video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7CGBYDLJuhfa6JiR6 My pool builder is ducking me so I'm just going to fix this myself. I assume I need to buy the installation tool (I don't think I...

I don't look forward to digging up the conduit. What is the best solution?

What is the right fix?

I have. he said he can come by next Wednesday. But I want to know what the fix is or how you guys would handle it. Not that I don't trust him...

A year after finishing the pool build, I finally located the leak. Hoping the repair is easy. Long story short, we finished building the pool last summer and were very happy to start using it. I quickly realized I was losing salt very quickly. Something like 100 PPM a week. CYA was also...

So we don't really use the spa like an actual spa. We have little kids and they complain the pool is too cold, so I heat the spa up to like 85 degrees. I don't really mind getting the pool warmer either? It's actually nice, since we have some heated water going to the spa and then some going to...

Yes, I have an IC40 plumbed immediately before the Intellivalve at the return side. I do have it set to generate chlorine when in spa mode, but at a much lower level.

We've been using the pool a few weeks now and I'm dealing with things I would like guidance on. Details are as follows: The pool is plumbed in such a way that even in pool mode, some water is returned to the spa and over time, there is a slight overflow sending water from the spa into the pool...

Also, one other question. Is it possible that it's not algae and it's just a bunch of organic contaminants? I've been getting lots of leaves and bugs in the pool lately... could that be eating up the chlorine?

I'll do the OCLT test and report back. Yes, salt and CYA dropped dramatically in the last month. CYA was 70 on July 5, 45 on Aug 7th. I know it's a lot but we've been using the pool a lot... 4 kids in it daily, then with friends over its like 8 kids splashing around and using the pool to fill...

To clarify, I used a salt test to confirm I went from about 3900 ppm to 2800 ppm. My SWG was saying the same thing over the last few weeks, but I confirmed with the actual test. My FC was going up initially, going from 4-5 to 10 in less than a week. This is when I turned it down. I turned it...

I'm nearly certain I don't have a leak and I didn't backwash during this time... so I am chalking it up to splash out and heavy use, but wanted to see what you guys thought. July 4th my CYA was at 70 and salt was 3800. It's a brand new pool and that was my baseline to have it ready for swimming...