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Well the pool filled up quite a bit from some recent storms. What is really weird is that it no longer seems to be leaking as the water level hasn't moved. This doesn't make any sense to me, I dont see how a leak could fix itself. The only thing i know to do is to continue watching the water...

Hi Texas Splash, the return is not plugged as we are in SC and i dont lower the pool below the return lines in the winter although I should probably get some plugs and start plugging them in the future. Since the return hole is still under water I assume the line itself isnt leaking but it...

Our pool is currently closed for winter but in December a few days before Christmas I noticed that our pool was leaking. From eyeballing it I would assume it was losing about an inch of water a day. Our back yard is slopped and there are two retaining walls going down the hill behind the pool...

I am thinking of buying the AO Smith STS1152R which is a 1.5 HP 2 speed motor and also purchasing the rear motor plate that has the built in switch for high and low. This way I dont have to run any new external wires for a new switch and can change the speeds manually. This should work, correct?

After doing some more reading I found that some 2 speed motors have a High-Low switch on the motor itself. I think it would be the easiest to just buy a motor that has this switch built in and wire the motor with my existing wiring and timer. If the pool requires a 1.5HP motor now, what...

Ok, seems I need more education on the subject. Yes you are correct, I do only need the motor and did not plan on replacing the pump but just the motor. My understanding was that to make the two speed motor work correctly I needed a timer that had the additional wire so you could go from one...

Hi, my pool guy installed a new pump when I moved into the house about a year and a half ago as I knew nothing about pools and the old pump was locked up. He replaced the old Hayward Super Pump with a Centurion Century B229SE which is a single speed 1.5 HP pump. With minimal use (pool is...

The vitamin C took a small stain off right away, do looks like I have some metal stains. Might just try to live with them for the summer and wait to do the AA treatment at the end. Just got the water all balanced up and the whole AA process sounds kind of like a bear.

Let me see if I can find some vitamin C and I'll trying holding it on a spot to see if the stain changes. If it does chance I assume I'd need to perform an AA treatment?

My calcium has always been low for the most part, I always have to add. I think the pool wasnt really cleaned good enough when I drained it to clean out all the debris. At that time I was really concerned with trying to minimize the damage to the surface. I just got the salt up to 3200 and...

Any ideas on lightening these up, they dont really look bad when the pool is running and the sun is out but are much more noticeable when its dim and the pool is off.

What kind of stains do you think these are? Almost looks like they may have gotten worse.

They had two 6.5lb jugs left so I picked up both of them for $20 each. Not a bad deal, I'm sure you could order it on their web site and they will send it to the store for free I think. I'll take a look at the salt cell tomorrow, best I can remember it was clean inside but I can tell it's...

I purchased a new house late last July that is 27k with a pebble stone finish. The pool was a complete swamp and had to be drained. Once I had it drained and shoveled out I cleaned the pool with a stiff bristle brush and diluted bleach. At that time some dark stains (more on the black side)...

We are on the same page, had planned to start with 15 bags of the solar salt and go from there. I really hope the cell is working correctly as there really isnt any way to test it. The head unit lights up and powers on fine but the cell itself looks old so I could have to replace it at some...