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My pentair booster pump refused to work when I opened Today. It has power, actually got warm. Shut off power and began troubleshooting. Initial thought was capacitor. Then I checked the shaft. It's seized. It's exactly 3 years old. Looks like i could rebuild, but is this what to expect? 300$...

Local guy shows up late yesterday to open my pool. Him and his worker were very quick to try to leave, I don't think they were here for an hour. Pulled the cover, did a quick vaccuum, some very lackadaisical brushing efforts and added some salt. He said he didn't have the other chemicals with...

We had some terrible wind and cold- the super dry air with snow blew lots of dust and soil into my pool. Lots got under the mesh cover, some went through. I have concerns about leaving it in my pool till spring opening- its a concrete pool with white plaster. Our soils have lots of iron and I...

I have a pentair variable speed pump for my now 2 season old pool. It runs on speed 3 first thing each day for a few hours then on speed 1 for the rest of the day. Overall it’s been great and I have had great luck with my swg, fc and filter w this system. Recently I have noticed that at low...

My 1.5 YO concrete pool looks to have pretty large amounts of effloresence coming through the grout, mostly where the tile meets the coping, so kinda under the lip. Its bright white and very crystaline looking. It does kinda flake off, but it seems to want to take some of the grout with it. It...

I posted a few weeks ago about my plaster having a sandpaper feel. My thought and the toughts of the experts here was that it was scale that occured over the winter since my pH drift up is pretty bad- its a 1 year old SWG inground white plaster pool. My builder told me to lower the ph to 7 and...

Opened pool (company) 2 weeks ago. All was fine, did my best to maintain some FC and pH over the winter. It's a one year old concrete/plaster pool. Last year had no issues other than pH drift up, which I read was due to new plaster and SWG. Would add a bit of acid regularly, and it would go...

had my in-ground pool put in last year. i did not seal the exposed aggragate concrete last year, but thinking about it this year. LOTS of products out there. who has had success/failure with certain products? in the end is it really worth the effort? it seems you need to re-seal every year or...

2 questions. Almost time to uncover and open the pool. I will have to add water most likely. Our well water has some (but not super high) iron in it. Dont know the exact amount, will be investing in a kit. What is the level where it becomes a problem? I of course had to add a bit of water from...

First year pool owner, new concrete pool filled in May. I asked about adding CYA (because of this site) and he said not to bother with it. His logic is that my SWG is only running at 50%, so why add another chemical? I asked about hurting the longevity of the SWG and said its a non issue. Its...

New guy here. New 18x38 concrete pool put in this winter/spring. Filled in May. Very deep (they overdug...) in diving end. SWS and robotic cleaner. Partly landscaped, still more to do. Not completely happy with a few things, but seems to be functioning very well. PH has been high since we...