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Our existing pool is a 27' round 52". The pool wall is 18 or 19 years old. We have had it since 2016, I can't remember if it was 11 or 12 years old when we got it. There are spots on the bottom edge that are rusted through, but it doesn't seem to be in danger of imminent failure. 1 of the...

I was running out of Taylor R-0001 and R-0002 reagents so I bought some refills. The ones I already have are at least 2 seasons old, probably older. In the summer they sit in a storage box with a lid under the pool deck. In the winter they are stored in my conditioned crawlspace. last week...

I am toying with the idea of trying to roll one of these. I have a bit of experience with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. However, I need some suggestions on how to measure the amount of chlorine I am dispensing. One technique would be to use a small pump that has a flow rate I can measure, and...

The return fitting on my pool is leaking. I need to at least take the pipe out to reseal it and tighten it and will probably get new gaskets. I am hoping there’s a way to do this without draining all the water that I just added last weekend but I don’t see how. It would have to be some...

I don’t think there’s a fix for this except to replace it. I leave the drain cap off the sand filter in the winter. I learned the hard way if I don’t water can freeze and crack the laterals. Yesterday the cap wasn’t going on straight. I was still filling the pool and figured I was just cross...

I took the pool cover off today. We are opening the pool late because of life and travel. Anyway, the liner is torn away from the bead in two places, about 14" long each. For obvious reasons I don't want to replace the liner. If I have to then we will likely drain the pool and dismantle it...

We've had a lot of rain over the last few weeks. I've had to drain an inch or so of water from the pool several times. I use the opportunity to backwash the filter. Is it doing it any harm to leave it on the backwash setting until the water level is down where I want it? It only takes 30...

Necessity is the mother of invention... I replaced my liner a few weeks ago. Friday morning I worked it in all the way around the pool. I had the top rail still on. I was afraid that if I took it off the wall would lose stiffness and fall over. After I was done, I had about 12" of extra...

I know pool stores are looked at with some disdain on this forum. However, I decided this year that when possible I am going to buy from my local pool store. They are decent and I'd like to support small businesses. I won't go nuts and get stuff I don't need like phosphate treatment, but...

Is there a gauge that will last me more than 1 season? It seems I've replaced the gauge on my Hayward sand filter every season. It needs to be replaced again.

We got the liner installed and I am filling the pool from my well. It will take several days to fill. Can/should I be adding any chemicals? Or just wait until it’s fulll and go through SLAM

The old liner was 6 years old and developed a leak either shortly before or sometime after I closed it last fall. I let the water leak down to the level of the leak hoping to make it easier to find in the spring. Well, turns out the leak is somewhere in the bottom.... We opted for a new...

I need to replace my liner. Looking around, overlap liners are more readily available and considerably cheaper than beaded. I did some research. I think that if I were to buy an overlap, then I would need to take the rail seats and top rails off, and then install the liner directly over the...

AGP. 27' round. Liner is 5 years old. This summer I thought it might be leaking. It passed the bucket test. Sometime between then and when I put the cover on, it developed a leak. Or I screwed up the bucket test, which is quite possible. We had an unusually wet late summer/fall with a...

Saturday afternoon I figured out that the electrode for my SWG is bad. Monday evening the pump motor wasn't running. It tripped 2 different GFI outlets. Investigation showed wet wiring. After it dried overnight it was fine Tuesday morning. Last night I went out to check that the pump had...

The eyeball on my return jet is not adjustable. When it is fully screwed onto the return it is shooting the water more or less straight out into the pool. I am considering removing it and adding a 1.5" plumbing adapter with a 45 degree elbow on it. Should I do this? Should the jet be aimed...

Another problem I noticed in the last few days is I may have a leak somewhere. I have an area at the edge of the pool that never seems to dry out. No one has been swimming in the last few days so it isn't water splashing out. There's not a lot of water, but it is noticeable. The area to...

My Intex SWG has been telling me low salt. After 3 bags of salt the other day my test kit says the salt level is at 3400 PPM. I checked the cells. They did not seem to have any scale on them, but yesterday I let them soak in a mix of muriatic acid and water for an hour. I know that salt...

"it sank and we had to get it out". that was the explanation I got last night after seeing the pool ladder wanting to float. The kids somehow got the ladder high enough to drain all the water out, even with it still attached to the pool deck. I did not ask why they were putting legos in pool...

I opened my pool last week. I turned on the SWG for the first time yesterday. It threw the low flow code, but my pump is fine. After a bit of research I found a reference to a missing magnet on the flow sensor. It does look like mine is missing. I have a plastic arm where something might...

Keeping a long story short... I did not follow my normal pool opening/cover removal process and managed to dump a good part of the debris on the pool cover into the pool. I'll vacuum it all out tonight. Most of it is too fine to collect with the leaf rake. It will be a lot of vacuuming and...

I spent a while on Saturday putting several feet of liner back in the bead that had come out over the winter. I'm typing this with sore thumbs and skinned knuckles. I'm wondering about any products to help keep the liner in the bead. I tried one a while back - I don't know the brand name -...

I peeked under my pool cover tonight to check the water in anticipation of taking the cover off in a few weeks. About 5’ of the liner is out of the track. My liner is a beaded liner. The water level is about 3/5 full. Can I put the liner back in the track? It doesn’t look damaged. This...

We had two hurricanes last fall. I had several trees that were 50' or so away from the pool. I lost 2 of the trees around the pool in the first one, and the remaining ones in the second. I didn't have to clear nearly as many leaves off the pool cover this spring, and it's only been a week...

The top rails of my above ground pool are metal. Some of them are rusty. The one under the ladder is the worst. My wife painted them last year, the rust seems to be coming back. I don't know what prep she did or what paint she used. I want to work on fixing them this summer. Whatever...

The second hurricane last fall took out my vac head. A falling tree missed the pool and the deck but managed to break the vac head off where it attaches to the pole. I got this as a replacement: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006H4CLA0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I...

I opened the pool this weekend. Above the water line there is mold or mildew on the liner. I suspect it was left after water on the winter cover caused the pool water level to rise that high. Can I just scrub it off with pool water and then shock the pool? Should I spray it with algecide...

Last fall I closed my pool two weeks early because a hurricane killed my pump. I was going out of town on business for those two weeks. There was a lot of crud on the bottom of the pool. I expected a swamp when. I took the cover off. Instead I found this

I’m wondering if it is realistic to make my own SWG. The basic process is electricity is sent across the cell to split the chlorine out of the salt. I’m wondering about buying a replacement cell and building my own electronics to run it. Aside from It would be fun, I could power it with a...

I'll start off by conceding this thread is a bit presumptive as I haven't done troubleshooting yet. Hurricane Florence came through here this weekend (technically she's still here). My pool water is clear, but there are lots of leaves and small twigs in the bottom of it. The last time my...