Recent content by sdrilling

Our pain tolerance for this house would no more than $30K to repair the pool, remove the diving board and replace the mechanicals.

Hi there -- We are long-time pool owners (15-year-old 23-40 pebble-tec pool) and are looking to purchase a new home in a different state. One of the homes we like has a 17-year-old pool that has sat in an unused state for 3 years. The seller's Disclosure states the fiberglass pool has a crack...

We are selling our home with 23 x 40 inground pool and downsizing. To replace our pool we are thinking of a Swim Spa. SwimEx is one of the manufacturers we are looking at. Swim Spas - Hydrotherapy, Exercise And Rehabilitation Pools | SwimEx Does anyone here have a Swim Spa? If so, what...

We purchased the Dolphin 300SI in October 2018. It was awesome! We set it to run three times around the pool and it did a magnificent job. It did a magnificent job with cleaning the walls, the bench and the stairs. It was my best buddy. About a month ago it died. Took it to the store...

We installed our new variable speed pump in late October and several other components to the tune of $8,000. The pump failed in June and the pool company replaced (jul 3) the control board under warranty. Went out this morning (3 weeks later) and the pump is dead again with the same issue...

Hello - Thank you for your reply. We checked back with the electrician and he states he would be using an Eaton surge protector with 5 year warranty. Pool - The cost for the surge protection to the pool is $331 + $14.95 in parts. He suggests we replace the ground wire at the same time...

Our 8 month old variable speed pump failed ten days ago. The good thing it was under warranty. The pool tech said it probably failed due to electric surges. We are near Atlanta and have lots of storms. He recommended we contact an electrician to install surge protectors. We have searched...

I've dropped the PH to 7.2 - 7.3ish. The pump is on full blast. Water is losing the haze from the pump being off the past 10 days. The pool never got real dirty as I kept it chlorinated to the target level every day, ran the robot a couple of hours each morning and I swam laps in the...

We purchased our home with an older pool in October. We spent about $8K on new pump, filter etc.... We were paying a big named pool company to do the maintenance but they made a big mess of the chemistry. We discontinued their chemistry maintenance, purchased our own Taylor test kit and...

We purchased our home with an older Pebbletec pool in October. In the past couple of months I have made several posts on TFP as we resolved some of the problems. After discharging the pool company and taking our pool chemistry in hand (and after spending days reading the most excellent...

Good morning We noticed when pump is running at high speed the Quad DE filter shows a pressure of 25 and backwash needed. When the pump speed is reduced to medium the pressure returns to about 10 The pump and filter were just installed in October and we are newbies. Recommendation - should...

On Thursday we filled the pool exactly to the bottom of the white overflow square. It rained heavily on Friday and parts of Saturday. It sprinkled on and off today Sunday. My husband checked the pool and we are exactly two inches BELOW the white overflow square. The pool company used a...