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Curious if any Pool Tech can compare and contrast the Aquapro and Pentair brands of Heat Pump pool heaters. I'm planning to replace a 9 year old Hayward heatpump which is pretty crusty in our salt air environment. The Haywards might be well though of, however my 2100 seems flimsy, goes...

I understand that shocking a pool to get clear water to open a pool is the gold standard! At around $12 per application it seems pretty inexpensive, even if you have to do it twice. My pool guy says shock is a waste of money, somehow? He suggests submerging a 50lb bucket of trichlor in the...

Re: New to Pool Maintenance. Advice needed on Chems, Backwa Many thanks for all the tips! You guys and gals? are great! 2 questions: The instructions with the Lowes shock say 1 lb per 10,000 gal. I think the type is DiChlor. I was confused when one poster mentioned that I need 9 lbs of...

I'm a novice at this so I hope someone can kindly help with a few basic questions. Have a large gunite pool with sand filter. I've got the pump running and filtering. Shocked the 40,000 gal pool today with 4 lb of Lowes shock. The faint green is now more blueish though cloudy. So far, so good...

Thanks for the comment Dave. I'd agree that it means the leak is very likely to be, at or above the 6" mark. My focus now will be: 1. dye testing the skimmers again, and especially the flange at the front opening to the pool 2. dye testing the tile around the full perimeter (that will take...

Yes, you get tons of air bubbles when you open the main drain valve, while at the same time drawing from the skimmers. You also get a very low flow when pulling only from the main drain, and I'm not sure it would even prime this way. I first assumed this was due to the depth we are pulling...

We have a 30,000 gal in ground pool with a 1 hp hayward super pump and a sand filter. Drawing only from the 2 skimmers we get no air visible in the pump housing during operation, but when we open the main drain inlet to the pump, we get a flood of air bubbles - really a torrent. 1. I know it...