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Georgia. It's Augusta. For now we're not in Milton's path and with all my heart I pray that we don't end up in it. I'm not sure I can stomach a second round of this. And not that you asked, but whenever it comes up I feel like it's worth noting, I am very well aware of how fortunate I am at...

Sorry for the delayed reply, internet is still pretty spotty. We're on clean municipal water and haven't had any interruptions. I don't have a "large supply" but I'm wondering what would constitute a large supply? Pool is approx. 30K gal (my bio may have a different volume). At this point...

Our home got rocked by Helene and, best I can tell, we got quite a lot of storm water runoff in the pool. The day before the storm the pool was fine, the next morning it was dark, couldn't see the bottom, and had plenty of pine branches and leaves in it. We were then without power for about a...

Good advice, I'll try that and see. As far as liquid chlorine, do you know whether it's just asking too much of a salt cell to push the FC to that level?

Background if it matters: an undetected leak caused some unstable chemistry. I fixed all of that, shocked to knock out the lingering algae, and went to level the chems. My salt level and FC weren't really responding and when I tested with the strips it was way higher than what the cell was...

Ahh, perfect. And with next day delivery! Rock and roll! Still on schedule. Pump went out on Saturday and I've got a kids pool party this weekend. Fingers crossed that I'll have it all back up and running (and not inundated with an algae bloom) by Saturday.

New 3HP calimar arrives tomorrow and I'm looking for install advice. Are the inlet and outlet of the pump housing 2" threaded? Or slip fit? I'll be adding threaded unions where I have to tie in to existing plumbing (as I've done for other equipment). Is it recommended to use thread seal or...

Title says it - gotta replace a very old booster after already replacing the very old vac. Vac is a polaris TR28P (been very satisfied with it so far, it does did a great job with pine straw, before the pump eviscerated itself). Polaris recommends their PB4SQ booster. Claims of efficiency...

If this is the wrong place to post this please let me know and I'll be happy to move it. I made several efforts to save my Minimax NT 400 and all I have to show for it are some new parts. They are very lightly used since the heater only lasted about another month after install. They're...

EDIT again: apparently raypak does not have a low-nox AND cupronickel option. (Learning as I go.) Back to the drawing board.

EDIT: cupronickel is available as an OPTION on the ASME models. So....still, is ASME overkill for residential? Thanks again.

Replacing minimax NT 400 (400k btu) and going with RayPak low nox heater. There are two options and I am hoping to get some advice about which to choose. I can either get the ASME model that has copper heat exchangers, or go with the cupro nickel heat exchanger version that is NOT ASME. I...

This is not a solicitation for recommendations of any particular model - I understand that models need to be selected specifically to handle the pool size/region/etc/etc/etc. If my prior posts are any indication, I've met my match when it comes to our very old MinimaxNT and have decided that...

So is there basically a distance restriction? I mean, there's gotta be since you're moving hot water and losing heat as you go, but I guess I'm wondering just what is it? Or how well would insulation help out. If it's the case that I can run it that far, my garage roof would be absolutely...

I imagine the answer is always going to be that anything is *possible*, but I'm wondering more what's practical or efficient. I've included a (very professionally drawn) picture of the roof, equipment location, and usable roof space. Equipment circled, red line to house represents about 40...