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I’ve been slamming for a week, scrubbing multiple times a day with a wire brush, grated with a trichlor puck and kept water circulating 24/7. What do I need to do?! It doesn’t even seem like algae as a wire brush doesn’t touch it but I can’t think of what else it would be. It has spread slightly...

I appreciate the follow up. It turns out my problem was the strainer cup on top of the caretaker water valve unit. I never noticed it as every time I took off the pipe it stuck inside the pipe. I was looking at a diagram online trying to figure on what was up and noticed it. Sure enough, it was...

Sorry for any confusion. I’m referring the strainer cup on top of the Caretaker water valve for the in-floor cleaning system which has a strainer cup on top. Here is a picture for reference.

Thank you. Sounds like a project for the weekend.

Heres a pic of the plumbing with the caretaker definitely correctly plumbed after the filter. I checked the strainer cup today on the caretaker after cleaning it last night and it again was totally full of debris. The filters look good but I suppose there could be a tear I couldn’t easily see...

Thank you again! I guess just to clarify a bit, I’m not talking about a small amount of debris at the caretaker strainer cup. I have to empty the cup at a max of once a week or the build up is so significant the caretaker doesn’t get enough pressure to run. So this definitely is an issue I’m...

Thank you for the quick reply! As requested, I have updated my sig. I clean my filters 3-4 times per year because I have very large leafy trees that shed into the pool all year long. I live in AZ so I'll deal with that to trade for the shade. I don't see any change in PSI-post cleanings since I...

Thank you in advance for helping with my seemingly simple and dumb question! I have a Pentair Clean and Clear Cartridge Filter system. I have been getting quite a bit of debris ending up in the Caretaker water valve dome stainer. The cartridges are about 5-6 years old but they don’t have any...

Thank you again for your help! We are up and fully functional. The issue was the screen on top of the water valve. I had never noticed it as it was stuck up in the the PVC coupler so when I pulled it off it wasn’t easily visible. I do have a quick follow-up question. While running it for several...

Thank you. I’m headed outside not to run this test and check the screen.

I have a pressure issue with my in-floor cleaning system that I can’t seem to solve. I have a Pentair cartridge system and a Caretaker 5 port in-floor cleaning system. When I have the Caretaker system engaged I’m getting 8 PSI at the water valve assembly while I’m getting around 30 PSI at the...