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Re: Questions about how to start Gotcha.

Re: Questions about how to start The problem is, the water is so murky that I can't even see what I'm doing past the shallow section. Should I just keep running the filter and backwashing to get stuff out until I can see? Or will that not happen without chlorine helping kill the contaminates...

Questions about how to start Every year I have to open my pool late in the season (as to why, there's a different reason each year- this year its because we weren't sure if we were staying in this house through the summer), and every year I open it up to a murky green/brown mess. In the past...

I actually backwashed the filter since then, I think. Maybe not- I'll probably have to backwash again over the weekend, so I'll wait until then to see if it makes a difference, but somehow I doubt that's the cause here. Its a DE filter, FYI. I think the LO error here has to do with gas pressure...

nice, that might be helpful for me to look at. Weird- what was yours doing when the igniter needed replacing? Because mine *was* igniting, it was working fine, then it would start to report a problem. I think I read somewhere that if you hear a whistling noise, it means low gas pressure, but I...

If it helps, I recall there being a whistling noise when the gas valve was opened up all the way. Any ideas? Please, my water is freezing!

Well, thanks for the support guys- I didn't give up, and eventually prevailed (using liquid bleach to help keep the price of constantly shocking at bay). The pool is excellent, aside from a little yellow stain which I assume is likely a caused by a metal (I've heard about these, I'll look into...

Hey everyone- I'm renting a house with a 20'x40' inground, and the pool is 100% my responsibility (landlord bought house to rent out, doesn't know anything about pools, said I can use it but my problem). So, it came with a Hayward 350 heater that I've been using, and it worked alright until...

Ok, I'll give it a shot. The missus is at Target right now anyway, told her to pick up some unscented bleach. Think 8 jugs is enough to start me off? Judging by the pool calculator on this site, it might be. Cheap Target brand bleach is $2+ per gallon sized jug, she says.

Seriously. He bought the house to turn around when the market got better, and really knows nothing about the pool or much about the house in general. He said I'm welcome to use it, but it would be my responsibility. He does help when something breaks, though. Last year I had a problem with the...

So basically, I should just hold off until the weekend when I have more time?

I've heard about this and read it on other forums as well, but it was usually followed up with someone mentioning that it is not as potent, and therefore takes more of it to do the same job (thus negating cost savings)... Another source (may have even been on this forum, I've been lurking for a...

Thanks! The big problem is that I'm not shocking it all at once, right? So far I've dumped a grand total of 18lbs of shock into the water over the span of 3 days (because I had to go back and get more). I feel like if I had done that all at once, I would have been golden. I'm also not going to...

I'm renting a house with a 20' x 40' inground pool (approx 24k gallons, I think). Last year I managed to get the pool running with minimal help from a neighbor (the landlord doesn't really know anything about pools, so I'm in this alone), but this year I'm having trouble and doing it without...