Recent content by dandelions

Re: Argh! Can't Close Pump Drain Hole, Any Fix? or Must Buy Thank you very much - and the picture is perfect! I am off to Home Depot now to purchase a tap, pic in hand. I'm embarassed that as the child of hardware store owners (many years ago of course) I've never heard of this, but I'm happy...

Re: Argh! Can't Close Pump Drain Hole, Any Fix? or Must Buy Thanks for the suggestion. Do you think Loctite Marine Epoxy would work (that's all they seem to have at Home Depot) or would I have to special order something? It's all dry as we were just about to start up the system. Would only...

So, within a few minutes, we've gone from moving smoothly through a first solo pool opening (neighbor helped last year) to an unsealable hole at the bottom of our pump that we've caused and can't find a way to fix. Help! - any ideas what to do? Here's what happened: As part of opening...

Our pool is directly under two large oak trees. We have been getting large amounts of acorns and recently leaves falling for the past month, and I look up to all that will still come down!?! Should we close the pool sooner or later??? If we close -- The pool came to us with a loop-loc mesh...

Thanks for the suggestions. I am using a TF-100 test kit and, after the 1 lb of hypochlor (Leslie's Power Powder Plus) I added when I had nothing else available, I did the rest of shock using liquid chlorine (6% bleach). I do realize its a process and I did the appropriate calculation in the...

Thank you. Yes, I realize that the acorns stain very quickly as I have been fighting them all month. That's why I was so worried when I read here that I could not use the Polaris. I have been using the leaf catcher with a garden hose and the vacuum plate over the skimmer basket, but they are...

I had the same question. I have developed an algae problem for the first time, but my pool (new to us) is directly under two oak trees so I have many acorns coming into the pool. Should I be using the manual vacuum through the skimmer basket to collect them instead of the Polaris while I go...

The normal PSI is 10, and it has been very constant, so I couldn't understand why after filtering this algae for a few hours it shot up to 20. The pool gets a lot of oak leaves and acorns, but the Polaris does a pretty thorough job of collecting them every day, plus us manually skimming them...

Thanks for the input. We'd been going along so well, I'm frustrated that we did something so dumb, but we just had movers arrive with a 40' container and we're very overwhelmed. Just to add that when it was opened last month, they opened the filter and rinsed out the grids. I added DE when I...

We bought a house with a pool last month and, after learning loads from you kind folks, maintaining it so far has truly been trouble free... until today. The pool has gone from sparkly to very cloudy overnight. I realized then that the floating chlorinator was not in the pool (kids) and may...

OK, here are 4 photos which hopefully will aid someone in confirming that I am starting to understand my system. Thanks so much for the warm welcome.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have a Taylor test kit in a blue box, but it does not look like the photo of the K2006 so I will get one of your recommended 3 asap. I added nothing to the tap h2o before testing, so 30 CYA would seem to be suspect. I have dry acid to lower the pH. All the...

Another house purchase that came with a pool - our first. Only in the house a few days, had the pool guys who did work on it a few years ago come to open it yesterday and then drain and clean it (it had not been taken care of in a year and had dark brown very smelly water full of acorns). A...