Recent content by HobbesGTS

One of my joints failed and I ended up having to do more of a plumbing job than I wanted on the pressure side, but wasn’t horrible. My fiancé laughed when I came inside asking for a towel soaking wet 🤣 Saved $1k and looks like I can get a $300 rebate from the power company still, and now I...

From what I can tell its just a Leslie's branded Hayward Tristar?

Motor on my current pump is going bad and needs to be replaced. Currently have an older Hayward Super Pump that's lived a long life and its time to upgrade to a variable speed. Pool company wanted $2500 to replace, or I can buy the pump for $1400 and do it myself, so I just ordered the...

Walmart is cheapest for liquid chlorine for me.. my local store didn’t have any, but it’s free shipping after $35, so that was 7 gallons. I get my Muriatic Acid from Ace Hardware.

After diving into HVAC YouTube last night, pretty sure I could just buy some good gauges and refrigerant if I had to for next time it starts acting up. They charged me $200 for 2 pounds of R410a and I’m embarrassed how much I paid for a new capacitor to be installed, but everyone needs to make...

Thankfully I did not!

So Leslie’s people showed up and even though I told them I had a heat pump when I made the appointment they looked at it and said they don’t service heat pumps, only gas. Called a small local HVAC guy I see mentioned on Nextdoor a lot and told him I had a heat pump for my pool with a low...

I guess we'll see on Tuesday how Leslie's 'Heater Diagnostic' service is and if they send a tech with the right equipment for a heat pump.. I'll start calling HVAC places if they don't

I have a Jandy JE2500T heat pump for the pool... first year is was good, no issues, second year it seemed to struggle a little bit, but this year it definitely struggling a lot more. It will turn on, everything seems fine, and then either it will stop with no error message, then you can hear...

Recently had our pool re-plastered on 4/19.. pool was here when we bought the house 2 years ago and it was painted, so that was a nice extra expense the previous owner left us for water blasting. When we bought the house and had an inspector check out the pool, he estimated it to be 25k...