Recent content by GMTK

I don't generally shock at all. Try to keep my FC at 5-6. Based on how the water department charges down here, it's about $300 to fill up my pool.

No idea. I ONLY use liquid chlorine from wally world. I've struggled with high cya ever since I moved in to this house.

FC 3.5 PH 7.4 TA 100 CH 825 CYA 60. Been hoping my CH and CYA would come down miraculously but no dice. Think I'm just going to have to drain most of the pool and start fresh unless yall have any ideas. (and yes, by FC is low and liquid chlorine went in after testing).

That was it. Impeller had all kinds of junk in it. Thankfully my kids hand was small enough to get it out. Thanks again, TFP saves the day.

Removed all 4 cartridges - no change. Running on high speed at 5 psi and I can tell when I open the relief air valve on top of the filter housing that it's not blowing out water like it used to. Clogged return pipe(s) possibly? Any other things I should try? The last 3 weeks have been hel! down...

Hot tub is connected to the pool. Last few days, after using the hot tub, I noticed the waterfall from the hot tub to the pool that runs when pump is on high speed has looked weak. Cleaned baskets, cleaned filters, water level is good. Maybe a clog in a pipe from the skimmers to the pump? Also...

How did your system do? I ran the waterfall pump all night and the low speed on the main pump and so far everything looks fine.

Another trick I just learned - if you have old school christmas lights still out - run those around the pump/pipes and plug them in on a time. They won't get super hot but put out just enough heat to keep things from freezing.

Others smarter than me will chime in (hopefully). I'm in a similar situation this weekend (I'm in San Antonio). My waterfall pump is on it's own circuit and when freeze protection kicks on for the main pump, it does NOT kick on the waterfall pump. So my plan at this point is to just run it all...

Is the recommended soak still 1 cup TSP to 5 gal water?

New filters arrived and also ran the pump without filters. Running on high speed. With old filters = 20-21 psi. Without filters = 12 psi. With brand new filters = 12 psi. So I'm going to say the old filters were old enough and had enough buildup internally that they were the cause. I'm going...

Ok. Going to run it tomorrow for a little while without the carts. I also ordered 4 new ones. I know 2 of them were bought in 2019 but I don't know how old the other 2 are as we moved in during summer 2019.

no change in FC overnight.

Found these online: PA137 Unicel C-7490 Hayward C-5500 CX1380RE Filter - $49.76 They are about half the price from "normal" unicel filters I am looking at buying.

Meant to do the OCLT the last two nights and I get side-tracked and haven't done it yet. Going to try tonight. Filters are C-7490; 7"x7"x32".