Recent content by wsteve

Thanks Cowboy - the tires are not slipping on the pool floor and still climbs up the sides. Its hard to fathom they would wear down in a vinyl pool with only 3 months of use and seems they around 90 bucks for a set of 4. From all of the other threads it seems pool vacs in general have problems...

Greetings I have a Hayward SharkVac that worked perfectly the first year, the second year it started getting stuck on the raised drain covers. The first year it had no problem even with the pool pump running. I tried it with the pool pump shut off and that was no help. I contacted Hayward and...

Greetings All Finally got all of the details Hernando County uses the 2014 NEC. Both the 2014 and 2017 required receptacles (including connections to Spa's) to be 10 feet from the pool wall edge. The 2020 NEC was changed to only require 5 feet. I am told that it will be 10 years before they...

Thanks to everyone that replied - lot of great information. Will answer questions in one post if that's ok? Inspector wasn't very clear on the setback. If it is to the equipment then I can place it in the general area I wanted too. I will email the permitting office and if that doesn't provide...

Thanks Marty, I have spent a fair amount of time in that section as well as others in the pool school. Lots of great information there

Greetings All The electrical inspector in this area tells me that the setback is 10 feet from the waters edge. The location where I would like the spa is about 8 feet from the waters edge. This portion of the pool the spa would be closest too is the tanning ledge which is less than 1 foot deep...

Just an old retiree that decided to install a pool and spa since we cant travel these days and the norm is a "stacation". 14x32 in ground vinyl with a 6 foot sun tanning ledge. Also am installing a 4 person stand alone spa. I have been enjoying reading about pools and pool maintenance here and...