Recent content by SCpoolOwner

Yes, to your questions! It's beyond frustrating at times. That's what I'm looking forward to, the push of a button and two hours later, done!

Awesome! Do you leave your robot in the pool year-round? I'd probably run mine sometime in the early or mid morning.

That's great to know! Is it in there year-round? I'd love to leave it in the pool and just let it work on a schedule.

I'll have to see how I feel after using it on whether I'll leave it in or not. A couple of posters below don't seem to have any real issues with it. As for a name, I'll pick one out when I find out if a boy or a girl arrives! :giggle:

I bought a Dolphin E20 from Marina PSP! I can't wait to get it, try it out and see if my pool maintenance life becomes easier. I've been a pool owner since 2005. I've always manually vacuumed our pool out. It wasn't the worst task in the world but there would be plenty of times where I really...

I'm dealing with the same thing with my 9+ year old Hayward sand filter. I've decided to replace the upper handle assembly which has the spider gasket already glued on, rather than trying to tackle the spider gasket by itself or the whole MPV.

Awesome!

What type of a budget are you looking at? Pumps aren't super cheap and if you want a super quiet pump, a single-speed might not be the best choice. At least consider a 2-speed pump where you can drop the RPM's down to around 1700.

I just wanted to post a follow up. After a thorough backwash that my pressure has completely stabilized.

Things are slowly getting better. After 5 hours, the PSI slowly increased to about 12 psi, with 8.5 psi being the baseline. I backwashed it for about 2 minutes and the water in the sight glass was nowhere near as dirty as it was when I backwashed earlier today. I started the filter back up and...

I have chlorine in the pool. There is just a lot of sediment that was in the bottom of the pool and the water went from clear to completely nasty and super cloudy after pressure washing the pool fence. The water is still super filthy but should clear up in a day or two. I went ahead and...

This is my second pool season with a sand filter, so I'm still very green with the backwashing. I've never actually timed my backwash, so maybe I'm not backwashing long enough. I'll usually backwash until the the water in the sight glass is much clearer but not super clean. Then I run the rinse...

Jason, thanks for your reply! The water is dirty but not from algae. Over last weekend and today, I pressured washed the pool fence and it threw a lot of dirt into the pool. Today was especially bad! Also, the starting PSI is now 12 and jumps to 20-25 psi in about 30 minutes. It sounds like...

My pump/filter pressure is jumping from 8-10 psi when I start up the pump/filter to 20-25 psi in about two to three hours. If I turn off the pump and turn it back on, the pressure drops back down to 8-10 psi. I thought maybe it needed to be backwashed but I did this just a few hours ago and it's...

Thanks for the advice! I'll take care of it. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a bigger problem or something weird going on.