Recent content by luna87

maybe quarter mile from a retention pond in one direction and a quarter mile from a manmade lake/pond in the other direction. Both of which are about the same elevation as the pool... things are pretty flat around here.

Agreed, I have been very level headed with the guy so far and haven't mentioned lawyers or insurance companies to him. I want to give him a chance to see what can be done, but on the other hand I'm not willing to let him just slap some new decking in and call it good if there is serious...

Title pretty much sums it up. I have a ~35 yr old in-ground kidney bean shaped diving pool, approx 35,000 gallons, fiberglass sides with a plaster/concrete bottom. The pool finish has been aging pretty noticeably recently so we hired a pool contractor to refinish the pool surface with an epoxy...

My Aquabot Classic Jr. is less than a year old and no longer moves. The pump motor still runs and turns the propeller but the drive motor seems to do nothing. I took it partially apart and can see that the pump motor is connected through the drive motor (which is working) but the tracks never...

I haven't been able to get a good picture of the area in question since its on the deep end and there has been enough wind to prevent the surface of the pool from being still enough. I did test all of my water levels this weekend and I think everything is in a pretty good range. After reading...

I'm not sure if I have metals in my water? I will snap a picture this weekend and post updated water test numbers.

In case an update can help anyone else out in the future... I re-plumbed the entire suction and return side of the system into a new Hayward Perflex DE filter last year (the old filter was completely shot and no parts available) using PVC ball valves instead of the old gate valves and the whole...

In case it can help someone else in the future... I replaced the breaker as recommended and it hasn't tripped even once since then. Thanks everyone for your help!

You'll have to excuse my ignorance as I'm really not even sure of the construction of my pool. It is a freeform kidney shaped diving pool. I believe the sides may be fiberglass or a hybrid of fiberglass and concrete. The sides of the pool are very smooth but have what seem to be random sized and...

Last spring I brought my improperly closed swamp of a pool back to life with the help of the folks on this forum. I closed the pool myself last fall and it opened up crystal clear and trouble free last weekend. Now I want to get my pool light fixed. I always figured it was just a bulb that...

It is a GFCI breaker, I don't know for sure but I'm going to assume its the original breaker so its ~25 years old probably. I've owned the house for less than year so I have no way to know for sure. The pump is the only device on the breaker.

So I finally got all my plumbing issues fixed after reworking all of the valves and fittings on the suction side of the pump. The pool is running pretty well now but I am running into an issue where every day or two the breaker for the pump is tripping. I have been unable to identify anything in...

So I spent some more time working on this today. I dug up all of the plumbing between the pump and the concrete pad where I really can't dig anymore. I'm still getting a nearly complete prime that fades over several hours. After inspecting all of the plumbing I can see, I don't see any obvious...

lucky me! Just so I know where to look and what I'm looking for maybe you can help shed some light on how my plumbing may be laid out and how the black poly typically fails? I'm guessing the black poly style plumbing primarily leaks at whatever fitting it uses to connect to another piece of...