Recent content by torchredcobra

ok cool, pool store tried to tell me they are one piece so I just wanted to make sure Thanks for the help and good tip on pulling them out in the spring. Would be a great idea to pull them all out, clean and grease them.

Hi guys and gals!! So I have a loop loc cover on my in-ground pool and there are about 6 -8 of the brass anchors that are stripped and I can't get them to screw in or out or are generally destroyed. So I have a bunch of straps I cant secure down. My question is, does anyone know if the brass...

where do i blow out the lines from? I am assuming inside the skimmer basket attached to the filter, then turn the valve to get the other return lines?

another MA pool owner here in Chelmsford and I am closing for the first time myself...... this thread just made me feel alot better, thanks OP

I am located in Massachusetts, it is a DE filter Interesting about draining the water, I remember having to take the plugs out and they were definitly under water.....is that from rain water getting in or did the pool company fill it back up after?

Ok, so I am a relatively new pool owner.....last year I paid someone to close my pool at the cost of $300. I'd like to do it myself this year I purchased a pool closing kit, so I have all the chemicals I need.....I just don't know the process. I know water needs to be removed from the lines, I...

nope, cuase they are all at the bottom of the pool lol..... Poolschoolgrad, thanks for the tip..i have that print out at home..I guess i'll just read it more carefully :)

so I bought a house with a pool adn the previous owners were nice enough to leave me the polaris 180 auto pool vacum bot. Last week, I came home from work to find one of the couplings in the hose had broken...I replaced it and the same thing happened to a different coupling inthe house...

Thanks for the welcome...and thanks for the tip waste...that was a helpfull read

Hey people...new guy here. My name is Ian, I live in Chelmsford, MA just near the NH border. Just bought a house about a month ago with an inground gunite pool. Pool appears to be from the 80's and in pretty good shape. There is some chipping of the gunite, but I can live with it for a while...