Recent content by Dash Inc

Once I pass the OCLT, I'll post a final run-through in case anyone else sees this thread after it's solved and wonders what it took to get there. My scenario was probably unique (like everyone's is) in the sense that my filter was a key problem until I repaired it.

Twenty-Third Day Update: Apologize with the teasing and the long absense; the days I work are literally complete days, not just a couple hours. By the time I get home it's already dark, super late, and I'm exhausted. The couple of posts before this one were from my phone during my breaks, hence...

The suspense is just killing you guys, huh? And good interesting... :D

I have some interesting pictures to post when work allows me to take them in the first place... :D

Are you talking about the things on a compass, or that one boy band? I don't know what 'directions' are.

Seventeenth Day Update: After having over two weeks of using a filter that nearly had zero sand in it (and work days where I wasn't able to monitor the pool every couple of hours), I'm more on track now than ever. Maybe it's a placebo effect because I know that I fixed the filter yesterday, but...

I'm sure you guys are right, thanks! It'll be here today! Thanks, I'm not out of the woods yet, that was just fixing the filter I messed up myself years ago... :drown: The motto for TFP should be: "Oh...Now I Know."

I ended up filling it partially with water jmbradwell, thanks for the advice. Afterwards I hooked everything up, turned on the pump, watched the return jets pump out a ton of bubbles and then went back into having super strong return jets. Brought the FC up to 16, jumped in and scrubbed the...

Just got back from Home Depot with five 50 lbs bags of Quikrete Filter Sand, and it is a much, much thicker grain of sand than the play sand I've had in there (again, my bad...) and now I'm just waiting on the storm to pass to go out and fill the filter up. Anyone have advice on the safest way...

Filter Update: I would have put SLAM Update, but I am more focused on making sure my filter is working before I continue. I have been adding bleach, but enough to keep it well above zero and not continuously testing it. Today I took the filter completely apart. I checked all the laterals and...

I understand exactly, I took the sand out a long time ago and looked at everything, so I'll do that tomorrow morning. The long periods of time in between posts = mucho work! Would you suggest any specific way to detect a broken lateral or will it be visually obvious.

That is interesting bridgman, I would like to try that. I'm worried trying anything at all right now would be pointless because of my filter possibly not working correctly at all right now. I'm not sure how to inspect the sand filter and spot any issues. I guess I can just open it up and see if...

So I'm ten days into the SLAM and the water hasn't changed much at all from the pictures above, but they have changed just slightly. I wanted to get all the dead algae that had converted into sand from the bottom of the pool, so I hooked up the manual vacuum we have, jumped in and started...

$1,300! That's awful! We threw away ~$600 ultimately until we finally gave up on the "Oh, really, this is what's going to work for your pool!" excuse. I'm not sure how much I've spent on bleach the past two weeks, but I hope it isn't that difficult to keep it maintained once the pool is normal...

zimm and karmabiker: I understand. Is it normal for a pool like mine to need so much SLAM-ing when it used to look like a swamp? Sorry the pics aren't there, I arranged them in photobucket after I posted them and it must have broke the link.