Recent content by tomintampa

Thanks, did not realize that. I will get the chips patched/filled.

Been in Lakeland 5 years now and love it. Growing a little too fast, infrastructure needs a boost to help support the population growth. Water loss is roughly that 1/4" a day. maybe a tiny bit more. Our pool is open air, no cage and gets direct sunlight virtually all day. We did have a leak at...

Not sure if this is the correct subforum ..... Pool built in 2005, we moved in 2017. Have 4 small chips/divots in our plaster roughly 1/8-1/4" diameter where you can see the gunite underneath. Otherwise the outer plaster is in good shape. I read that gunite is not watertight and have noticed...

Thanks to everyone who replied, sorry for wasting your time. I am learning all the time, sometimes the hard way. Turns out the drop was due to my pool's solar heating panel shutting down due to lack of sun late in the afternoons. When the panel is activated psi hits that 13.5 spot and when off...

For 5 days straight my DE3620 filter pressure will run at 13-13.5 psi (which has been my normal) until very late in the afternoon. Today it read 13.5 at 3:15, checked again at 6 and it was just a tad under 10 psi. The pump strainer has a periodic short burst of very small bubbles at the very...

Have staining on the bottom perimeter of my gunite pool where I pour my liquid chlorine. It occured in July shortly after when within two weeks our pool was inadvertently treated twice with our normal dosage of copper based algacide. The staining is in a narrow band exactly where I pour my...

I have a gunite pool with speckling. in full sun the pool bottom looks fine and the speckling is multi colored with some dark blue. when it is overcast and cloudy, there are patches on the bottom especially near the floor edges that look black. The sides are fine in sun or shade...

Jim, Pool does have additional salt cell plumbing (not being utilized) and additional plumbing to carry water to a rooftop solar panel dedicated to heating the pool water. So sounds like it's not an issue although I will keep an eye on it. Thank you for responding.

New pool owner and learning things the hard way. My Hayward DE filter pressure was reading 26. I just backwashed and recoated yesterday. Pressure dropped and is stable at 16. I am seeing information on the web that states after a backwash and recoat normal pressure should be in the 8-10 range...

Have decided to purchase a Poolvergnuegen "the pool cleaner' We have a kidney shaped pool appox 16x28, so after research was going with a 2 wheel unit. Turns out I can purchase a new 4 wheel unit for the same price as a new 2 wheel. Realize it's overkill. Is there any reason why a 4 wheel...