Recent content by Jdlsc

I see that both are on sale now. I've read that the single brush Saturn is sufficient for a vinyl lined pool. Is the added cost for the Discovery worth it or necessary with a vinyl lined pool? Will i do just fine with a Saturn? What else is the Saturn missing other than one scrubbing brush...

I tried the Vitamin C tablet and it had no effect on the stains. I'm now thinking these are stains from the leaves that fell during the cold months. I was pretty good about getting them raked up and skimmed out, but I guess not good enough.

The newness of maintaining the pool is still strong. I wouldn't say there was any excess accumulation over the winter; I'm anal about keeping it clean still. I didn't know about the shade preference of mustard algae. Since it's looking certain this isn't mustard algae, what's the best way...

Now that the photos have uploaded, the stains are difficult to see. They're barely visible along the perimeter. The stain is approx 3" wide around the perimeter.

Hello! I bought a house last August and had to do a 5 day long slam to rid the pool of the previous owner's algae. Once the SLAM was done, all I had to do was bump up the TA some and all has been well since. The CYA was at 50 initially and I let that slowly drop through the back washing and...

This is what I did. When I bought my house the backwash was plumbed into the same underground corrugated plastic pipe that the house downspouts used. Whenever I would backwash it would back up and flow out of the bottom of one of my house downspouts. I had nightmares of my crawl space being...

I just replaced the weir on mine and it took all of 30 seconds and didn't require any tools. It's a Hayward and I can't recall the model while I'm sitting here at the Honda dealer waiting on service. My weir has flexible plastic tabs at each bottom corner where the weir hinges. It just snapped...