Recent content by patplh

Thanks so much for the quick reply. Attached are new pics. First pic is the entire length of the hairline crack. Second picture shows more of the deck. The purple paths are deep trenches in the concrete that extend from the pool edge to the mulch. I clean them out each summer. They are not cut...

Hi, I have a 3 tier waterfall and have gone through a few leak repairs. - Crack in the base was repaired with quikrete and then painted over w/ pond shield. The pond shield started peeling off 2 years later, but the quikrete lasted. - Two foot length crack in the wall of the bottom pool was...

I went ahead and reattached the user interface and the display works now. If I'm being honest, I don't think I did anything to fix it. I did remove the wires from the connector instead of just pulling the connector out and cleaned the lcd connector with some rubbing alcohol, but aside from...

Hi, I replaced a Hayward pump with a variable speed Pureline Pump in 2019 and it's been working pretty well except last summer, the digital display stopped working. My previous schedule had been saved so I was able to get the pool opened by using the override buttons to keep it running, but I'd...

Thanks so much for replying... I'll plan to cover the pump pipe openings and try to find the drain plug for the heat pump. For the skimmers, I was planning to use the empty (and capped) antifreeze bottles as my gizmos since that's what our pool closers have always done. Thanks again!

I finally bought a cyclone after 15 yrs of opening/maintaining the pool ourselves, but always hiring someone to close it. Today, I successfully blew out the lines through the skimmer. In total, we cleared 4 wall returns and 1 waterfall plus airlocked 2 in-ground returns and 1 main drain...