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Hi guys, with the heavy regional winds and cold the straps that pull the roof up tore off. Having never done this before, I accidentally unscrewed the 4 screws holding the roof motor in place and the construction fell down quite hard. After having taken off the big pool cover construction to be...

Hello fellow pool owners! Last week I bought and installed a new pool pump. The pump has issues with priming and has a lot of air bubbles in the basket area. Sometimes the pump will run fine with no air bubbles from the return jets (still does have air bubbles in the basket), but as soon as...

Thank God!! Finally got it out by pushing, twisting and pulling at the weirdest angle, with my back facing the pool! Apparently my skimmer line wasn't clogged either, need to find out why air bubbles start appearing when there's only a handful of small leaves in the skimmer basket Thanks for...

It's an in ground pool, 20000 gal Pump is a Pentair Superflo P-SFL-153 I have been twisting and pulling on all different angles for two days but it feels like the garden hose will break before it'll get loose The hose doesn't have too much play, I can push it forward a lot if the pump is on...

I have probably done of the least intelligent things in my life yesterday I pushed the garden hose with the connector into our skimmer line, hoping to clear up a blockage in the skimmer line. I pushed the garden hose far too deep, about 13 ft in. For the life of me I cannot seem to get it...

How would I go about removing the fittings from the old pump? It seems like it's cemented in, haven't been able to pull it out. The pump model # is Pentair P-SFL-151 (it's a European model I suppose) It definitely accepts 1.5" inside fittings, but the plumbing in the end is 2" (I don't know...

Hey all, I received my new 1.5 HP pool pump the other day, replacing my 10+ year old pump. I have looked at the PVC plumbing and have no clue what fittings I have to buy. Attached are 3 photos, one of the plumbing, one of the old pump and one of the new pump. All pipes are 1.5", but for some...

Hey, I've been cleaning the pool every day for 3 weeks because every day there would be a bunch of dirt on the bottom of the pool. Usually I leave the pump running after vacuuming and notice the pool is slightly dirty again after 2-3 hours. Yesterday I shut off the pump immediately after...

I don't know why I didn't just upload a picture straight away:

What do you mean with the motor off? With the switch off, I actually have to hold that button for the pump to start working (humming in this case), as soon as I let go it stops (humming), has been like that since I first pressed it

Yes it is exactly like that. Now when I flip the switch the light won't even turn on. When I hold that button it just hums, hammer won't help either. Is it time for a new motor?

So it freezes when flipping the switch, why does it not freeze when directly pressing the button (I still don't know what it's called) on the circuit breaker? Edit: now it wouldn't start holding that button either, after a few attempts something whirred and it started, but there was an...

I fixed the skimmer pressure thing by putting a sock over the skimmer basket. Pressure after is 0.7 bar, pressure before is 0.5. I managed to get the pump up and running and ran it straight for 3 days. Today I opened the pool and the bottom was very dirty, so I wanted to clean it. I turn the...

Thanks for your reply! I did take apart the motor last week and there was something stuck in the impeller. Do you think something got stuck again in a week's time? Furthermore, I have opened up the pump strainer lid and inspected the o-ring for cracks and what not, it seemed fine. I used a...

Heya, Up until two weeks ago I knew nothing of pool maintenance until I decided to clean my parents' pool this year. For two weeks, I've been solving problem after problem (mainly thanks to this forum) but I'm lost on this one. First things first: we have a 75m³ inground pool with a 640 Kripsol...