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We just purchased a short sale home to move into. he pool has not been opened in 3 years and is surround by 7 60 ft pine trees 4-6 inches of pine needles in the pool (See Pix) its a 40x20 Lazy L that goes to approx. 7 ft - I'm guessing in the 33k gallon range It has a 1hp Haywood pump and...

The cleaner pump is dead. It has power going to it but it won't turn on. The filter he says is barely big enough for the pool. I think he want to drain about Hal to see if water got behind the liner. The water is so dark and dingy, you can't see anything

Hi all I purchased a house with a pool that hasn't been opened in 4 years Here's what I know. It's a lazy L unground liner pool with Approx 20x40 ft long. Installed 1980s Liner was replaced about 5 years ago then pool never reopened. Polaris cleaner pump not working Sand filter with 1hp...

Hello all Im helping my brother open his new pool built in 2012. This is the first year opening the pool. We have removed all my plugs and gizmos. Tightened all the drain plugs in the pump and filter and primed the pump with water and tried to get it going. Pumps pulls hard for 5 seconds and...

Hello All I've been thonking about swaping out my pump for a Variable speed pentair in order to cut energy consuption. My question, How will this effect my chlorine generation on the SWG. I assume i would need to run my pump longer in order to make up for it, or do i just raise the % of chlorine?

My Buddy has an IG pool with booster pump for a cleaner. I have offered him my new Polaris 360 since he doesnt have a robot. We were wondering what (if anything) needs to be done to the 360 so that he can use it with his booster pump. From what I can see, he dopesnt have any value or other...

The pool does have a solid cover on it. It look like it was close properly back at the end of the previous season but never opened n 2010. From what I saw, there were plugs in the skimmers and the filter was backwashed at the last closing

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Hello All Looking for advice A buddy of mine just purchased a forclosure home that has a pool. The pool has not been opened for almost 2 years. We are looking for advice as to expectation as well as anything we can do that might make this process a bit easier. Here are some details. They...

Can't wait to get to that point. Im going to call the pool service tech to clean the grids. Hopefully they'll show me what to do so I can do it myself going forward

Yes - Im adding new DE each time I back wash. In fact I add slightly less then the equipment calls for. Im adding 5 lbs. for a DE60 which calls for 6 lbs. Can it be I need to clean my grids after oinly 1 week?

Well We finally finished out new Gunite Pool. Startup company come over and explained brushing, backwashing and chemicals. additionally he had some suggestion that I want to run past you veterans. Plis i have my own questions 1 -Been brushing 3 times a day for the last 5 days. My "Day 1"...

I'll get the hose back in there now