Recent content by catsncoffee

Good point i'll do a test on the fill water with my kit. Thanks for the help!

It adds about an extra $90 to our water bill when we do a full drain and refill.

Thanks! I'm in the Phoenix area but under a different water company that most of metro phoenix, so i dont know, my fill water seems higher. My PPM meter is reading 400 and the last time i drained and refilled it was at 400 when i tested CH after the fill. 615 will get us by. I am looking for a...

CH is over 1000 so just trying to drop that as much as I can. Fill water is hard about 400.

Yes did the 5gal bucket fill with the hose and with the water coming out the pool via the sub pump. Hose fill is pretty slow. Ok thanks i will just shut it off when it gets too low and let the hose catch up. How do i calculate how long i need to run this water exchange for?

I'm currently in the middle of a no drain water exchange, but my subpump is pushing out water a lot faster than my hose is filling. Subpump rate is 20 gal a minute fill rate with my hose is only 6gal minute. I don't want my water level to get too low because it's going to be nearly 100 degrees...

Yes that kind of hose. I guess i could ask the hardware store to cut me a piece of 1 1/4 PVC i can't seem to find anything long enough otherwise. Trying to drain out the old water (high CH), while filling to avoid having the pool empty because I'm in AZ and we're already at 100 degree so not...

I'm trying to do a no drain water exchange but i can't find a backwash hose long enough to attach to my subpump, i need 150ft to get to my sewer drain in the front. Is there a way to attach two 2inch backwash hoses together so they don't leak?

Okay, thanks. I'll watch the weather perhaps we'll get few day break from the heat and i can get a drain done quickly.

I'm less worried about scaling mostly just wanted it to be swimmable for the summer, but i got distracted and here we are mid April and pushing 90+ for several days in a row. The plaster is likely original so i don't want to risk cracking it.

Probably not. I don't know how much longer we'll own this house so I don't think it's really something we want to invest in right now. I guess i'll just watch the weather and see if we get a break from the heat to do a drain. If not, oh well until fall i suppose.

The scaling isn't too bad i had it blasted 2 years ago which was when we drained last. The problem is we're set to be above 90 degrees for the next 10 days so I'm not sure when or if there will be an opportunity to do a full drain. Yes we have a full house water softener but it doesn't connect...

FC - 4 CC - 0 pH - 8 TA - 120 CH - 1075 CYA - not sure i could still fully see the black dot at 30 so this might be low? Water temp - 70 Do i need to partially drain? In Arizona so we have really hard water. Do i need to increase my CYA? I have a very hard time managing my pH i have to add MA...

My husband can check the voltage. Any suggestions for what motor to buy to replace it with that might last longer? We'll just do it ourselves this time rather than pay someone $500 again. Thanks for your help.

I just turned it back on, and it primes up but it sounds really weird, no grinding or rattling just like a low not fully powered motor, and about 5 seconds in starts smoking again.