Recent content by RobertScalchi

Awesome good job.

Impeccable. I just unboxed it this season. Ill take a photo of it when i rinse it out in the fall..lol... I usually only rinse it two or three times a year. A month after startup, mid-season, and when I close the pool

No MC either? As per NEC.. Ok #12 AWG THWN it is..

I'm not technically an electrician but I am in the electrical and solar trades and I'm very familiar with residential commercial wiring and NEC code. 20 amp 12/2 sounds good for a 1.5hp pump motor. I have a different Hayward cartridge filter setup with the 1.5 horsepower motor. No SWG. I...

Looks like you're doing the process good by ordering the new filtration cartridge, The Duda diesel bag, and using the skimmer socks. One little note however. When the skimmer socks load up with debris on suction side. The pressure on the gauge does not go, up it actually goes down because it's...

You don't have to drain the whole pool you can clear this. Verify the CYA and hold the SLAM with liquid chlorine. Drag the floor with the leaf net blind if you have to make multiple passes. Get that debris out of there on the bottom of the floor because that's what's going to eat up your...

FC: 0.3 TC: 0.6 CC: 0.3 PH: 8.2 HARDNESS: 176 ALK: 123 CYA: 48 COPPER: 0 IRON: 0.3 PHOS: 127 These numbers look like pool store numbers to me. Unreliable. Order the TF-100 or the K-2006 test kit. Read Pool School and understand what a shock or SLAM really is. If your cya levels are truly at 50...

Oh Rammy you are close just looking at that water, you are 1 step away, literally and metaphorically in the process. You just need to filter out the rest of the cloudiness and keep up the SLAM

Yeah my ladder spot is darker blue than the rest of the pool too.

You are doing everything just right. Just keep maintaing the SLAM, filter good, and backwash or rinse when 20 to 25% over clean startup operating pressure. You are at aqua green you will be a cloudy blue in no time

A friend of mine has this particular filter and DE filter canister housing and pipe cracked over the winter since they left water in it. I'm actually looking for a replacement. I found the canister on eBay for $ 157 and a canister itself new goes for about 200 to 250. Their pool is currently...

Try placing the skimmer sock inside the basket and pulling the end of the skimmer sock over and under the bottom side on the outside of the basket, then seat the basket. My particular basket will pop up if you don't lock it into place

Ok everyone who knows me here knows that I highly advocate the triple filtration method with skimmer socks my cartridge filter and a Duda Diesel bag on the return jet at 5 or 1 micron. I have a debris problem on a daily basis since I live next to the woods with a lot of pollen. I'm not having...