Recent content by sman222

I use a nylon brush that seems pretty worn. Would a good wire brush be a good start?

Sorry if I'm a little new to this...I dont think I have the complete test results you are looking for but I just used what I have (test strips) to read: Free chlorine ~5 ppm ph ~7.8 or 8 alkalinity ~180 pm pool was built in 1999, I purchased the house last year so can only comment on its...

Sorry for the poor picture quality, took the pic zoomed in while the sun was getting low. But one day I noticed a significant amount of spots on the bottom of my plaster pool. Seemed like they appeared out of nowhere - I have a weekly pool service so chemistry should be in check according to my...

Was walking around my pool tonight and noticed one portion of the edge of my pool deck (away from pool, where it meets the grass) had concrete that looked a little bubbly/unsmoothed. I've never looked at this section closely so maybe its always been there and it was just a bad concrete job when...

After looking at some other stain threads, is there any chance this spreads? Any way to remove easily?

I was not able to brush them off yesterday afternoon with a few minutes of effort...however the floor ones appeared to fade somewhat overnight, not sure if that is the rewult of my krauler running over the area all night

Hi all - yesterday I had a medium sized tree pulled from my backyard along with having the stump removed (through a grinder process). The tree was originally about 15 feet away from my pool. Upon coming home from work to check out the job, I looked at my pool and there were a ton of small...

Thanks so I'm assuming I can push it right back on the hinges by hand if that's an issue?

My krauler seemed to not be moving and I left a note for my pool service. They discovered a sock had been sucked up by the krauler which was preventing it from sucking up water while the pump was on. The sock didn't go up the line or anything just stayed in the head. Is there any chance this...

Re: backwashed for the 1st time but left valve closed for a Thanks I had read horror stories online about leaving the valve closed, but I'm assuming if I see no leakage or any issues when running it now I should be ok

I've only been a pool owner for about 2 months now and have a pool service that comes weekly to do backwashing, etc. Had a bad storm though and decided I needed to backwash myself. Read the instructions and gave it a try...ran the filter in backwash mode for about 15-30 seconds before I...