Recent content by mikelishan

Thx for the replies...I'm away for work right now, but I will take your suggestions and re-post when I get back.

First let me say that I love this website and have learned a lot from all of the advice that is posted here. I joined the year after I bought my house and have been lurking on line ever since (during pool season). I have done everything with my pool by myself except closing. I've been...

Man, ran into a similar issue yesterday...for awhile the pump would hum for a couple seconds then turn over. Now the pump just hums. I pulled the capacitor and tested and it seems fine. I put the multimeter on 20k ohms, then switched to 20VDC and I could see voltage dissipating after charging...

Excellent, I'm going to use them as pump theory training material for work. Thanks for the post! Now off to their website.

Previous owners had an underground line break which cause the concrete to shift and become very uneven. Called out a company that put a slurry under the concrete (by drilling holes) and effectively levelled the concrete. I had a huge area of approximately 2500 sqft around the pool that needed...

I like my 360, I have the sand/silt bag and my bottom is usually spotless when the cleaner is in the pool. It takes a little fiddling to get the machine to run the way you want it to, but once you have the trajectory setup the way you want, you can just plop it in the pool at let it work...

Just bought my kit and speedstir. :-D

I already had the SpeedStir in my radar. We used magnetic stirrers all of the time in back in my engineering lab technician days in the Navy. It will be fun to reminisce.

This is my 3rd season of owning a pool with a 3 year old liner. I started wondering what was going on when my deep end liner would get lighter and lighter each year. I looked up some info and found this site. I'm sold on BBB and plan to switch. For the last three years I've been watching my...