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I recently bought house with a pool and still trying to fix it. I have a GFIC Outlet that goes to two switches. one of them turns on landscape lights around the pool. The second one turns on lights in pool and spa. Landscape lights have no issues. I can turn them on and they will stay on...

Thanks for all your help. It worked! Two more times of washing the grids and a lot of shock made the water blue and clear. The pressure has stabilized at 12PSI.

Thank you ajw22 and Richard320. I will try SLAM. Current chlorine level is 4 and FC is 2. I am on the well water. All thise makes me wonder. What did I do wrong? It sounds like the wasting several boxes of DE or draining 70% of the pool every spring is not a fine way to go. How it suppose...

Thats what the problem is. How can I do the SLAM Process if it says, "you must run your pump and filter 24hrs/day". Even after soaking grids in cleaner and powerwashing pump and filter were able to run for only 4 hours. After that it was 30PSI and almost no water flow. So what should I do? Run...

I bought a house with a pool last year. It has old Anthony Pools equipment. Last year everything was working perfectly. Water was clear and pressure stayed 9-10 PSI. Pool was property winterized. Several days ago I opened it. Water was pretty green with some stuff on the bottom. I vacuumed the...

Impeller looks clean and I don't see any leaks. It's all nice and dry. What suppose to stop DE filter barrel water from coming out from strainer once lid is open? It never did that before. It used to be like this: Open strainer lid, see some water in the basket (at about 2./3 level). Now...

I am trying to start the pool equipment after the winter. It's pretty simple Pentair Superflo pump -> DE filter -> Heater system. I checked all o-rings and all plumbing equipment looks fine. I don't see any obvious signs of water or air leaks. However pump is not priming. When I turn it on -...