Recent content by m_more

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    How to Heat an Intex (Anyone Doing It?)

    Woa!! What a hazard. Was this the heater?
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    Intex owners: did you leave yours up over the winter?

    We're in Orange county and leave our 16x48 up all year. It's is our 4th season and besides some stain and fade it's in perfect condition. We use pillow and winter cover. No issues, well except for the first year our cover fell in lol.
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    Manual Vacumn For Pool - Improve suction?

    We always blocked one with the black stoppers that come with the pool!!! Make sure you unscrew the vac adapter thing (our intex were blue) that goes over the inlet, Plug the hole and the rescrew it back on do it stays in place and doesn't wiggle off and suck up air.
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    Poll: Through wall skimmer in a soft-side (Intex, Coleman, etc) pool

    3 hours?? ...took us like 30 minutesto do it all...Lol.. we did it and I'm not sold on it yet. I'm guessing there's sometrick to where to point the return. It isnt hard at all!!! We had some leaks but taking it off and puttingbit back on without super tightening was the trick!!!
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    HELP- Regrets over thru wall skimmer on intex

    Thank you! Stuff seems to be getting collected just not when I'm staring at it. Hahaha! But I'll play with the eyeball position and see what works best. I will say our pool never spun this well!!! Now I justy have to figure out where the sand at the bottom is coming from.
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    Just Purchased an Intex Sand Filter...how to vacuum...

    Our pool came with this adapter... if a hose doesn't fit we used a hose adapter. Which is at every pool store and not specific for any pool. If you have one of the newer pools that have double inlet like we do (two holes to go to the filter) you'll get better suction by doing a few tweaks. Intex...
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    HELP- Regrets over thru wall skimmer on intex

    oops attached wrong photo before. The water is right on that top screw. This morning I went and checked and the basket was FULL so it caught some I guess. Ike0069 It did BUT we figured a way to rig it so it wouldn't pop up. To get the over the wall intex skimmer to work we took the blow up...
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    HELP- Regrets over thru wall skimmer on intex

    It's been two days since we installed our thru the wall hayward skimmer on our pool and I'm not sure it's what I expected. We have a 16x48 and this is our third season. We rigged the intex over the wall skimmer so that it would stay put and it did a FABULOUS JOB! My biggest complain was that it...
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    Judgement anyone?

    Everyone always comments at how ghetto our pool looks but guess who's pool is always CRYSTAL CLEAR??????? Our ghetto pool. Everyone I try and convert to the BBB method always tells me "oh you can do that because you have a walmart pool" I got it at target but do you honey I'm cool not spending...
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    Leak - Hayward skimmer on intex.

    We just installed a hayward thru wall skimmer on our ultraframe 16x48 yesterday. The water is up to the bottom screws (we still haven't cut the big hole on liner) and it seems there's a tiny leak from one of the screws. It pools for hours and then one bead rolls down. The screws seem to be as...
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    High PH, High TA... thought I had mustard algae. ;)

    So silly me thought I had mustard algae.... weird yellowish/light brownish substance in the bottom of our Crystal clean pool. I shocked (according to pool math to MA levels) and brushed it. Did the overnight test and lost 0 chlorine. I suddenly realized my solar cover, deck, grill and car were...
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    Installing replacement liner inside of Intex 18' metal frame

    loooove that table/tray on the side... any better pictures of your build on that? thanks! - - - Updated - - - loooove that table/tray on the side... any better pictures of your build on that? thanks!