Recent content by FlyAU98

I have a tile mosaic on the bottom of my plaster pool. Its basic ceramic tile set in to the bottom. A couple of the tiles have come loose and I need to re-set them. Since they are on the bottom, I'd have to drain the pool to do it traditionally... Is there some sort of epoxy or something I...

So I've successfully (except for the return of the dreaded black algae) gone BBB for a year and half on my pool...my dad finally got his swim spa leak fixed (after 4 years) and is ready to get it up and running again. Surprisingly, he has kept what little water was in it pretty clean, so its...

The hose for the Zodiac T5 Duo (that came with the house/pool when I bought it) is starting to show some deterioration from the sun/water. Its still working fine, but I thought I'd look into replacing it before it went bad... Then I discovered how expensive the hose sections seem to be. I...

How about just asking the neighbor to not fiddle with the pump setting?

The little rubber plug (that looks like a 'x' on one side) in the check valve was in backwards...proved itself once hooked up and the hose kept blowing out of the pump. Everything seems to be working...pump mounted outside and above the box.

A friend in the car wash business grabbed a 30 gallon tank for me...it fits perfectly inside a rubbermaid-type dock box that has been sitting next to my pump pad. I kept some acid and few random junk pieces of pool things in it before. Its cleaned out and ready to protect my chlorine from the...

TF100 test kit. My wife's mornings don't support her eagerly doing a OCLT. So we are proceeding with keeping FC elevated while I'm gone. I threw in a couple tablets to provide cover for her forgetting. ;) She said she has noticed some yellow pollen on her car...so hopefully that's what it...

I thought the pool water looked a little yellow yesterday evening. There were some clouds, but a bright sunset, so I thought it could have just been the ambient lighting. I hadn't fully tested the water in about a week, so I decided to take a look at it. I got a CC reading of 0.5, which is...

So...1 year and 12 days later...the pump/motor is getting a little noisy again... I would suspect the 'quality' Chinese replacement motor. All that has changed since my original post is that the intermatic timer has been replaced with a intermatic combo transformer/mechanical timer...and...

I'll get a photo as soon as I can make it home before the sun goes down :) I don't know how old the pool is. It appears to be present in a 2002 Google Earth image, previous images are too unclear to decipher. I imagine it is a mid-to-late 1980s or early 90s pool that has been redone along...

I thought about the 2-speed pump when my motor went out last time. I couldn't find a straight answer about the 2 speed (or variable speed for that matter) pumping adequately for the solar on the roof. I like keeping the pool warm, so pump is pushing though to the roof most of the time its...