Recent content by DouglasBubbletrousers

This is what our pool equipment plumbing looks like. The heater has presumably run for many seasons without issue (we're new owners), but my concern is the heater exhaust. It's perhaps hard to see from the photo, but the line into the heater runs almost directly over the heater's exhaust, with...

Okay, that's what I thought then. Probably best to leave it closed, then?

I moved into a home with a pool late last year. It's coming time to open it very soon, and I think I've got it mostly figured out. One thing that puzzles me is our pool is very simple. It's a vinyl pool with a single skimmer and no main drain. Yet the pump has two lines coming into it, each...

Yes, that's what I've been doing. Actually, I've been using a 5ml sample where each drop = 1 FC. Consistently getting around 30 drops. The CYA test may have been inaccurate at the start, as it measured over 100, so I guessed around 140. Then I performed the diluted test a few days later and it...

I have an unusual problem where our pool doesn't seem to be losing chlorine at any rate. We just moved into a home with a pool. An initial test showed CYA was 140 (I use a brand new Taylor K-2006C) and FC was at 4.5 😬. I do know the previous owner exclusively used pucks, so I was expecting...