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Well, the mason finally came out and started tearing into it. After he was here for an hour or so and had ripped the top layer of flagstone bricks off, I see the contractor from the pool company show up, so I go out there to see what's going on. Basically, they're telling me that this part...

Texas pool builders use substandard stone in their installs, and it's a well known problem. Rather than acknowledging they use inferior materials, they blame it on anything and everything including SWCGs. My pool uses nearly identical stone to yours. For the first 17 years of it's life it ran...

Shameful. Back in my day we repaired pools in a blizzard, and we had to walk 5 miles up hill, both ways, just to get there. And we were thankful! (yeah, good point. Leaning over the edge of the spa for hours doing the re-pointing would hurt)

The only cleaner I have is the Polaris 280 in my sig, nothing else special. But yeah, I see where they're coming from when it comes to just getting it done as quickly as possible. Price for the repair itself including draining is $2500. I have no interest in their "chemical start-up" or acid...

Got a quote from the company that built the pool originally just to get a baseline. They want $3K to do the repair, which includes: Removing and reinstalling the top two tiers of the stone (the four "pavers" I showed above, plus the tier below that one) Grind and repoint all of the cracked...

It seems CYA prices has gone off the deep end this year. My local Walmart didn't have any in stock, so I checked HD and found the same thing, $30 for 5/lb. No way. I ended up trying the Robelle brand on Amazon just to see how it was, which was $30 for 7 lbs. Still way too expensive, but less bad...

Assuming the unitherm governor is functioning as designed, the Raypak HL2 issue is extremely annoying to try and fix. After I installed my heater back in 2022, it worked beautifully for about 6 months. After that, the HL2 fault problems started. Currently I have it working the best it's ever...

Yeah, I didn't consider any speciality tools I might need.. I'm not opposed to buying pricy tools, but I can't see myself ever doing any other masonry work in the future. I also don't know what I'd do if I broke one of those pavers. If I had a step-by-step guide to doing this work I might feel...

At least I think that's what they're called? My spillover has four large tiles that the water run over in spillover mode. Those tiles are also responsible for holding the top 2" or so of water back under normal operation. The problem is, water has been leaking under here for some time, because...

Jandy used to have release notes, but they've hidden them away and even with access to installer documentation I can't find them. Not to mention dealing with Fluidra is like talking to a wall. That being said, T.2. was a major release for a long time. Current appears to be Y. In the absence of...

Yes, this will work. If you remove the "MCU board" and replace it with one having conventional firmware, you will effectively make the "PDA" system a standard RS system. This is how my setup is today. All I did was buy a used MCU board off eBay with recent firmware and swapped them on the PCB. I...

It looks like the firmware version is "1.5 PDA". Unless something has changed recently, the PDA firmware does not "support" using the web interface. The firmware should be something like "1.5 RS". Why this randomly worked for some period of time.. that I dunno. Have you tried other browsers or...

^^^ That. When my DE filter finally bites the dust and needs the grids replaced, I'm going cartridge. DE is for the birds.

For months, I've been thinking I'm insane. I've felt like the water level in the pool has been dropping quicker than usual. This became much more apparent after my Fill-O-Matic succumbed to the beating hot Texas sun and finally just failed altogether. I could not detect a leak anywhere, nothing...

If they didn't damage it too far below the ground, and you have access, you could probably dig it up and just splice in a fix where they busted it. If it runs underground in a conduit, it could be very annoying to pull a new wire through, just a heads up. It might be easier to make a new run...

Maybe try hooking it all back up again and see if it works now. Ensure the screws on the terminals outdoors and indoors are properly tightened down. If that doesn't fix it, you can always upgrade to the iQ30-RS kit which will get you iAqualink on your phone/PC and you won't need the controller...

Were you actually able to correct the issue? Some of wires on the PCB side connector (specifically #4) look like they're hanging on by a thread. For documentation's sake in case someone Googles their way here, here's my suggestion: I would start by pulling the Aqualink controller off the wall...

By the time the Intel transition rolled around, the newest Mac I owned was an old G3 iMac DV SE I rarely used, so I had no real side in the fight. I had moved back to Wintel boxes since I was doing more gaming than anything "creative"-related. The issue truly was not money; despite multiple...

In all fairness, the transition away from PPC was due to IBM's inability to scale down the 970's (G5's) power and heat requirements to work in a notebook. Even the fastest Power Mac G5s required liquid cooling to get around this problem - which, in 2004, was pretty exotic outside of enthusiast...

Algae occurs when there is insufficient sanitizer (chlorine), not phosphates. How are you testing?

I'm struggling to understand what's going on in the original pictures. Am I imagining things or is the pump RS-485 not connected to the Aqualink system at all? In the new picture you uploaded, they have jumpered it in a manner that is only recommended for troubleshooting purposes (it will run...

Well, it's a 24 hour drive and 1600 miles, but sometimes you find a deal you just can't pass up.

For what it's worth, I just used that Testmy site, and it clocked my gig service at only 553 Mbps using the Dallas TX server. 367 Mbps using Miami. It sounds like testmy.net just isn't very good. Speedtest.net got 940 Mbps, which is around the absolute max for wired gig Ethernet. If you're...