Recent content by StumpedTechy

I am actually running the MX8 daily. This is why I was wanting to mae it all run at the same time. Because I want the MX8 to get whaat has gone down to the bottom of thepool with the skimmer getting the top of the pool. Am I running this too long> the MX8 takes wuite ab it of time to do a full...

Okay last house was the first house I had with a pool. During the time I replaced the heater, I also replaced the pump, and did other minor things to it. This pool however is an older pool and it has its own set of issues and I was wondering what I can do to make this work well. Here is what I...

Here are the facts. I have an appx 20,000 square foot pool I have an inline Pentair320 Chlorine / Bromine Chemical Feeder Bought the pool with this unit in place it is after everything else just before the feed back into the pool. Has worked fine for almost a year, the last 3 months it is not...

Please explain to me how this can be a chemistry issue when the pump is leaking and the heater is turning off? I'll go over everything that has been done in detail but I just am not sure how chemistry can have anything to do with this with some of the symptoms. Bought house 1 year ago. Every 3...

I currently have a Pentair WhisperFlo WF-26 in place. It is a 1 1/2 HP and I have a ton of issues with my pool since we bought the house 1 year ago. I have a water heater that keeps turning off because there is not enough flow, I have algae that keeps coming back every 2-3 months even with me...

Okay let me start off by explaining my setup. First off I need to say I am always having to add acid increaser to my pool. I am doing this once every month ever since I first bought the house. When I was talking to my friend who has a working pool he says he never has to add that and actually...

I am sure some of it has to be pollen because half of my screens right now are almost yellow even after a nice washing down. The other part I think may be like deteriorated pieces of leaves and things like that because I have a ton of them on top of the screen area where I can't get to. I don't...

1. It is close to 2-3 inches of water. Not a ton but its enough to go from the middle of the skimmer down to just barely over it (where we start to see air in the circulation and have to refill it). We have a line of tiles at the top of the pool and the tile is about 6 inches high and it goes...

Okay about 6 months+ ago we bought a house with the pool when I had 0 experience with a pool. Within a month I had multiple issues with mustard algae and I finally went as far as scrubbing the entire pool down and draining the entire pool. I then refilled it and since then I have been on the...

Nplsdvr - I am using city water to refill and its actually ran through a filter as I have a whole home filtered and softened water system. So the water going in was pretty "clean" as it is. I didn't have to do much to change even the ph when I did the refill. zimm - thanks for letting me know...

I had posted about buying a vacuum for spot cleaning and whatnot that was like 20$ then I was looking even further and I saw they even have Roomba like automatic pool cleaners. Are they really that great and are they worth the price? We bought the Roomba for like 300$ years back and we love it...

Oh interesting I didn't know they had ones that fit OVER the basket. I''ll have to look for that. The two videos I watched online had the people taking the baskets out and putting the hose into the pipes under the basket.

Thanks guys you have been such a helpful group. Its sad my brother has a pool (and has for years) and he has 0 insight to give me and then I can come onto a forum and I get answers within hours. Your the greatest!

Good news! I just drained it almost completely, used bleach and got most of the yellowish muck out of it. Filled it with a junk hose and only filled the pool about 1/5th of the way in 1 day my wife bought a new good hose and within a day it was almost 100% refilled. I just returned on all the...

As I mentioned in my prior post I am new to owning a pool. I now realize I don't know what kind of hose to buy for the vacuum. There was nothing left by the prior residents. I watched a few you tube items that indicate to feed it through the water skimmer thing and into the spot where the bucket...