Recent content by Michael.Kendrick

As promised here is a pic of the equipment pad and of the portable pool cleaner I made so I can quickly vac and clean pool (i maintain it myself and the hose in the skimmer with main filter & pump wasn't cutting it time/effort wise lol). - - - Updated - - - And last quick post...if TFP...

LOL everyone. Thanks for the feedback and kind words. Sorry for being offline for a while...vacation time. Not quite sure why the prior owners wanted to sell but I will not lie and say that the pool was the main feature of why we purchased the house. I will take a pic of the pool equipment...

Lol smforte. No no, I have a dbl wide parked in front of it! ;) - - - Updated - - - Borjis I will post some of the equip pad. It has 2 salt systems. I still don't think they can keep up though...I keep a few pucks in the chlorine feeder as well. Maybe overkill but still learning her out...

Just wanted to add a quick note since I was also having a similar issue and couldn't pinpoint the point of vacuum loss until after weeks of looking. I found that my pump would not prime fully (and thus the air in the basket area) b/c of the diverter (valve) just before the pump intake. The...

Whoohoo...lifetime supporter now! :) Here are a few more pics of the pool as promised! It has a bridge and rock river thingy behind it as well (it is where the rear entrance leads to) but I don't have any pics of that with me at the moment. Primary reason for uploading them is to hopefully...

Hey everyone! Thx for the all wonderful feedback. Sorry I haven't been online in 2 days...I was dealing with HUGE swamp in my backyard. In short, I came last week from vacation after 2 weeks to find my pool completely taken over by green algae. The silver lining in it though lead me to start...

Thanks! Amazing site. I purchased the home/pool about 6 months ago and I am just now taking over maint of it it myself from here on out. TFP, Pool School, and Forums have been invaluable to me getting ready to maint it myself.

Additional pic as promised...

New member to TFP and wanted to share my pool pics...mostly so I can reference this post/pics since it is hard trying to explain my pool layout, equipment, landscaping since it is some unique. I have several other areas/angles but will upload them on another post b/c of file size.