Recent content by gregg123

I wouldnt take money. Ask her to cook your favorite meal. Pie? Cake?

I guess the purpose of the original post was, can you build a solar pool heating kit from supplies at Home Depot for a couple hundred bucks and heat the pool for free? I heated my pool one day for a party and it cost $100 on my gas bill. When you go to these web sites the system still costs...

Has anyone tried these type of plans? http://cgi.ebay.com/Solar-Swimming-Pool ... 1|294%3A50 The feedback seems to be good. What does he know that I didnt and spent about $3k on a pool heater? Thanks.

I did a search on Ebay for those LED color changing bulbs and they were about $500. Must be magic bulbs. I'll stick with my white floodlight.

While heating the pool I had a thought. Rather than running the cooler bottom of the pool water through the heater then out the returns why not heat the spa to a 100+ and let that spill over into the pool. By the time the heated water from the returns make it out a few feet they have cooled off...

I am heating my pool for a party today. I turned it on last night at 2am. The outside temp is 60 and the pool water was about the same. I wanted to heat the pool to about 83. Question, my Jandy LXI 4000 has a "pool heat" and "spa heat" button. I put it on "pool heat" and after 5 hours the water...

I have a 280, had to use the restrictor disc to slow it down . May seem stupid to ask but did you start the booster pump to run the 280? When my pump kicks in the thing runs around the pool fine.

Are there tiny bubbles coming out of the returns too? I am also learning about things that go on with my pumps and so on. When I saw the tiny bubbles from the returns and in the basket, I released the air valve on top of the filter till the water came out in a stream. The bubbles in the returns...

Just another thought. You found worms but no dirt. The two should go together IMHO. The dirt would flow through the pump basket leaving the worms in the basket with clean water coming back from the pool having gone through the filter. Have you opened up the filters to see if they are filled with...

Sorry, I thought I read somewhere where the guy found worms and dirty water. My bad. Unless you have a practical joker around, I cant understand how worms are getting in the pump basket every start up. Are they somehow getting in the filter housing? Have you cleaned it out recently? When they...

Im not a genius or a rocket scientist but even a caveman knows worms could not get into a closed system. There has to be a hole in an underground pipe. That's where worms generally live too, go figure. When the pump is on it will pressurize when the water runs through and saturates the dirt...

I am in the deck business. If you want something hot that is rough on your feet get pea gravel. If you want cheap, plain jane get brushed concrete. If you want decorative color, cooler than concrete and slip resistant get the spray deck. Stay away from the real Kooldeck. It needs to go on right...

A lot of small independent pool builders are going under right now. They are selling pools like crazy but unless you have cash money, you cant get them financed. With the equity dropping with the home prices, banks are very hesitant to approve a pool loan. Your PB may not be able or has not paid...

That cleaning method was very informative. Will try that next time. He also said having a monster filter may cause the pressure readings not to increase that much when they are dirty. That may be the problem we are having. I have 4 big Rear filters in that canister. Even clogged up they may be...

The pressure gauge seems to be functioning. Goes to zero when off and rises with the pumps. My pumps and equip are very close to the pool. Maybe 8 feet. Maybe the pressure is so good with the pumps that close that some dirt in the filters just doesnt make it rise enough to make the gauge go up?