Recent content by michaelbuday

Very interesting. I’ll take salinity meter over to my sons pool and compare to mine ;-). Thanks so much.

Very interesting. I always thought the salt was eroding the concrete. I know near the coast here in SoCal - the salty air gets into the rebar, rusting through the concrete. Many thanks!

Good point. Time to read the fine print. Many thanks.

Thanks so much for the info!

Sorry, yes 😁. I have no concrete faux rocks Yeah I see your point 😃, but yes. My pool has a natural stocked stone waterfall, but my son’s pool is entirely concrete faux rock. I just wanted to make sure that painted concrete rock isn’t affected differently than natural stone. Plus, if my son...

My son wants to switch out his trichlor based tablet feeder for a SWG after dealing with CYA levels that are now out of control. The pool is just over one year old. When he called his pool builder and inquired about making the switch, the builder replied: "Don't do it. You'll be sorry...

Sounds like the Fusion Soft is a cheaper and simpler option. It looks like it can be swapped into the previous chlorinator position with any plumbing modifications. Is that because it offers no benefit in a salt system with a gunite/pebbletec pool? Thank you!

His Aqualink has breakers below the control panel. I’d have to take a second look to see how many breaker slots are currently populated. Thanks so much for the info!

My son has a one year old 20K gallon pool with a Jandy Aqualink control center and a Nature-2, Fusion TriChlor tab chlorinator. Unfortunately, his weekly pool service company has been dropping trichlor tabs like candy into the feeder for one year now without considering climbing CYA levels, now...

Great advice - thank you. I may try a solar cover even without the heat pump.

Just wanted to say that I finally built a heat shield around the limit sensors using heavy gauge aluminum designed to protect car components from a nearby exhaust manifold. It worked perfectly. I’m shocked that Raypak would not include $5 worth of shielding to prevent this from happening...

My pool is about 18,000 gallons. Can’t say about my spa other than it seats six adults comfortably. Current gas heater is 400,000 BTU. Heat pump would be 140,000 BTU