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Thanks again! Hanging out at home so much, I'm being very deliberate to make sure I open the pool correctly. I normally have the "guy" open the pool, but haven't heard from him yet this year to schedule and thought I'd go ahead and do it myself. Not looking forward to removing the return plugs...

Thanks! Regarding the cartridge filter, I was referring to venting at the pressure gauge on the top of it. So I'll open that up, too. (Do I keep it open until water comes out of it?)

Hi - I need to replace the plugs going to the four return lines yet, but then everything should be ready to start. I just want to be sure I don't make a mistake. I have the following set up: 4 return lines - one valve each line. 3 incoming lines, 2 from each skimmer, 1 from the drains...

Is it worth it to start to balance the pool if the water temp is still around 50-55 degrees? Maybe colder in the deeper water.

First, the best price I got was Marina as good as PoolPartz refurbished but with a two year warranty instead of one. Second, regarding how did the robot perform? It did pretty well. It left some leaves on the bottom. I'm not sure if this is because they just move around too much or what. I'll...

I just received my Dolphin S200 (great service and price from Marina Pool in Denver! Thanks for the tip TFP!). My question is that I haven't opened the pool but I would like to clean it. Can I put the Dolphin S200 in the pool before balancing the water to get the leaves, etc. out? I'm guessing...

Water temp is probably still in the 50s. I'll measure later to check it out for sure. But since air temp has pretty much been at 50-60 I can't imagine it being much higher than that.

Like so many, I need something to do and thought I'd try opening the pool myself this year. I'm not so much in a rush to get in the pool, more to just get the water cleaned up (it's not bad at all mainly leaves and worms) and ready for action when it gets warm enough. I just want to be sure I...

Well, if the pool closer caused a problem, he was also the pool builder so he can fix it! Lol

I think it was probably low pH. How do I avoid that over the offseason?

No other pipes were open - just the one shown in the picture. Just as it would have been left last fall when the pool was closed. As I stated, I removed the Gizzmo from that skimmer and the other skimmer. I have not made any other changes or opened any other pipes. After about 24 hours, there...

I was walking around and just checking things out before we open the pool not that the snow is gone. I was looking at the pipes coming from the two skimmers and the drain and I saw that one of the pipes was not closed. Is this a problem? Was this on purpose or an oversight? The open pipes is...

I haven't opened my pool yet (Minnesota - still have a little snow on the ground!) but it got me to thinking about something I noticed last year. There were wrinkles in my vinyl liner in the deep end of the pool. They were probably about an inch high and emanated from the pool drains for several...

I know that for my Intellichlor, the owner's manual says to shut it off when adding any chemicals. I'm not very good about doing that though! Rarely do I remember to shut it when I'm adding acid, or even chlorine (which I almost never have had to add). And, right now the pool is closed and...

The best solution is some big, quiet fans in your seating areas. Mosquitoes can't handle any strong breezes and fans will keep them away from you. Citronella is ineffective (per Consumer Reports) and sprays only last until the next windy day since mosquitoes just ride along with the winds...

So much sand that the pool builder paid me(!) for the sand he took away to use at other builds he was doing. He had a provision in our agreement that he could charge me if he needed to bring in extra sand - and as it turned out, my back yard was basically sand beneath a few inches of black dirt...

My pool was built last summer with a cement deck all the way around it. They accidentally got some cement into one of the skimmers, and near panic ensued as they worked to clear it out. They even called the pool builder/contractor who also came over right away to make sure everything was okay...

Relatively new owner here - second year with our pool. Our pool was much like sccm's pool all year this year. Between the pool cover, and the salt water chlorine generator, our pool was virtually maintenance free - really! I attribute it all to what I learned here. Bonus results from a...

61 Degrees and dropping I'm sure!

No, our pool builder was great! I think the only thing he pushed, just a little though, was a water slide. Probably a high profit item. But he didn't apply that much pressure even on that. More of, are you sure you don't want the slide? There were several things he talked us out of, most...

I only bring in my SWCG for the winter per manufacturer instructions, and install the dummy cell in its place.

I think you've hit on the main concern - will the structure of the pool remain solid? I had a leak in my pool before closing it last winter and we let the water level go down until it was below the leak. As it turned out we still had water in the pool all winter that eventually, of course...

To answer your SWG question - my pool has been extremely easy to maintain with the SWG (even with the grandkids swimming in it almost daily). Once I go the pool up and running and balanced last spring, it was almost too easy!

68 degrees today! Down 3 degrees in one day. I can't imagine how much it would cost to turn on the heater and try to get it to 80 degrees even. (I could calculate, but why bother?!)

Right off the bat I would say that used ones are risky in that all SWGs have a certain useful life and the more it's been used, of course, the less useful years/months/days it has. Regarding sizing, the general advice on this forum is go for one rated twice the size of your pool. There's a...

71 degrees! Not even going to try it.

Going back to the question of power usage, I set my variable speed pump at 1000 RPMs and it was using about 90 watts (per the screen) and the set it at 3000 RPMS and the electricity usage went to 1900 kwh. So, 3 times the RPMs but about 20 times the electricity usage.

The first picture is from above obviously, with the second picture showing the whole equipment pad. As you can probably tell from these photos, I have 3 pipes coming into the pad from the pool, the two skimmers and one from the two drains. Then I have four return jets - as you can see by what is...