Recent content by Piney

East of Houston

We've noticed that heating our 20x40 pool from full cold (60ish) to 75+ takes most of a day. That's with the natural gas heater running all that time. Our gas bill goes up around +$200 for that month, then levels back down to +$100 or so if we keep it at 70ish and 78ish Friday-Sunday. We keep...

It was working earlier this season. I noticed the water had cooled off over the weekend. I checked and the heater won't fire unless the thermostat knob is all the way full heat. It will run "forever" when at this setting--- but I'm not trying to boil mudbugs ! The knob usually sits at about 1...

Greetings-- My previous house's pool timer (Intermatic) had a thermostat unit option. I would it set at 30 degrees. It turns on the pumps at that temp. Now-- it very very rarely got that cold there (East Texas) but just in case eh---

Greetings-- Thanks for all the info folks!! A couple more questions-- How does one tell if the filter grids are damaged or in need of cleaning/upplugging ? My guess is that there is little or no DE left, as I had no idea I needed to add a significant amt. after backwashing. Remember-- I'm...

Greetings-- NEw owner of older pool-- THis one has a DE filter. Our pervious house had a sand filter on the pool. From what I understand, when one backwashes a DE filter, some of the DE flows out, thus requiring a replacement. QUESTIONS-- 1) How does one determine the correct level of the...

AGHHHH!! Mathmatics...... :lol: Where would one find the Heater Efficency variable ?

Greetings-- I'm curious-- what temp diferental should I expect to see between the pool water and the heated water coming out of the jet ?

That make sense-- I just wanted to be sure that it wouldnt damage anything running it w/o the flow control valve. I'll order one Monday. Kids wanted to swim this weekend so I wanted to fire up the heater.

Im by no means an expert in these things-- but recently found out a problem with my Pentair heater-- Mine has a water flow valve in the I/O manafold. Its a spring operated disc that regulates the cold water flow. APparently it keeps the "correct" water pressure/flow through the heater coil--...

UNIONS Greetings-- One more thought-- install the plumbing around the pumps/filter/heaters/ect with unions. It'll make it MUCH easier to replace components in the future. Our first pool had unions on all the various parts. This one doesn't so I'll have to cut the pipes should I have to...

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Greetings-- The top on mine occasionally gets stuck. I, too, lubed the O-Ring with lube, thinking that would make it easier. Nope..... Tried releasing the vacum, too. Nope About all I have been able to do is gently tap on it with a hammer and 2x4 until it releases. I confess-- I broke one...

Greetings-- Heater will turn on and burn for 1-2 min, then service lamp lights and burner goes off. It will wait 2-3 min, and turn itself back on. Over and over. A week ago, it stayed on just fine. Unit is aprox 8 yrs old . It was here with the house so I have no idea about service ect...

Greetings-- We had a stand alone spa at the other house. We liked it because of its self contained design-- easier to keep the water balanced, temp control and better jets. The down side was that one had to climb external and internal stairs to get in and out. We were occasionally a bit --...