Recent content by mcgeechelle

I have Lube Tube; it's what Pinch A Penny sells. It says it has PTFE, though :confused:

Ironically, PinchAPenny sent husband back with Pentair O rings and said it didn't matter if it was Jandy or Pentair. They may not know what they're talking about, but sending him home with Pentair rings was fortuitous.

Oh, no. I hadn't even considered that it might be a Pentair diverter since all of my other ones are Jandy. Just sent the husband down to the store and he's already on his way home. He might not be happy with me :oops: Thanks for the quick reply!

Last night I heard a slight sucking noise in my pool plumbing and saw there was a leak between the stem that goes from a diverter valve to the valve actuator for my solar. Water dribbles out at a fairly steady rate when the pump is on, drips intermittently when off. I'm guessing there is a bad...

Adding a cup of muriatic acid worked like a charm. There's still a touch of cloudiness, but it has been significantly reduced. Thank you!

Okay, thank you. I was just surprised by the cloudiness because it had been clear all day (probably some 15 hours) after I initially added it; it only became cloudy sometime in the night after I added the chlorine. I will add some acid to help it along!

Hello. I woke up to milky, cloudy water this morning. Here are my test results: FC: 8 CC: >.5 CYA: 30 PH: 7.6-7.8ish? I really need to get another test tube, the colors don't seem to match up anymore; fish aquarium test strips say 7.6 TA: 80 CH: 330-340 (again, the difference between pale...

Interesting! I did think some of my staining became a little more pronounced in some areas the first time I did the AA treatment but thought it was because my white plaster was brighter (although it could reasonably be a combination of both). I will order the ID kit just because I’d like to...

That mottling is widespread throughout the pool :confused: My pic was just my attempt to get a close up of one area in case the color was any indication to anyone. I don’t disagree that the previous owners did not take care of the pool well - I had to replace almost all of the equipment within...

Thanks, I will have to go through the guide since hours later I see no impact on the stains from the ascorbic acid. I have tried to scrub it with a trichlor pick before, but to no avail, which is why this is so confounding. I thought for sure it was metal.

Hi all. Last summer I did an ascorbic acid treatment to my pool, which did wonders for cleaning off the steps and lightened my pool surface quite a bit, which I was pleased with, but it also caused a cheetah print/mottling on the surface. I assumed that I just needed to do another treatment, but...

That’s it!! I still have it mostly taken apart on the table so was able to look again! Thank you so much! I really was not expecting anyone to know and I’m certain my pool store would have charged me well over $100 to diagnose and fix it.

Fwiw, when my XL doesn’t move (even though, like yours, it kicks like mad when I pick it up), it’s either the feet or the A frame. I’d try the feet first since they're the easiest and cheapest to replace, and if that doesn’t work, then the A frame and turbine. I hate diagnosing this pool vac...