Recent content by In2b8er

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    Trouble cleaning out the pump basket.

    These hairnets don’t dissolve or breakdown? How often do you replace them? I have these at work I’ll definitely try this. Thank you.
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    Trouble cleaning out the pump basket.

    The skimmer basket has a hole in it that and the main drain is how the leaves get into the pump basket. That’s not the issue the issue is that i can’t clean it out because every time I stop the pump the water and leaves rush back down the pipes and out of the pump basket. It never really did...
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    Trouble cleaning out the pump basket.

    Is there anyone else who has trouble cleaning out the leaves in the pump basket? Now that it’s fall I have a significant amount of leaves that make it into my pump basket. The basket is almost completely full while the pump is running however, when I turn off the pump so that I can unscrew the...
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    Pool Winterization, specifically skimmer winterization.

    Hi everyone, I just had to switch my pool company for closing my pool and the new company did things a little different than the previous company and I just wanted to make sure this was ok. 1) They left the sand filter on "recirculate" vs "winterized" this wasn't a big deal because it was easy...
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    Lampaous LED RGB lights Vs J & J Color Splash LXG lightsT

    Just wondering if anyone had any experience with either and can maybe comment on the brightness of one vs the other? Also it's interesting that the Lampaous lights are around $80 and Color Splash LXG around $200. Both light bulbs will go into a pentair Amerlite housing and there won't be any...
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    Did my pool guy sell me the correct heater?

    Thank you everyone for the replies. I just called my gas company to ask about my meter and main line and a representative will get back to me within 2 days. My brother ran into this problem with his pool heater and it cost him around $10,000 to upgrade the meter to a million BTU and the gas...
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    Did my pool guy sell me the correct heater?

    So I had a pool guy come and replace the the old pool heater that was on the pool that came with the house. The pool is roughly 27,000 gallons gunite pool with a surface area of about 935sqft. When I initially talked to him he told me he would install a 350k BTU gas heater. Then when he showed...
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    Do I need to re-plumb my pool if I am re-doing the pool decking?

    Hi, I am going to be redoing my pool deck and connecting patio. I've talked to a few pool companies and at first they both recommended re-plumbing the pool once the old concrete/pool deck is pooled out. However, after talking some more to one of the pool companies they now recommend pressure...