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Prepping a SWG installation for next week. I have a taylor salt kit on order to check level before I add salt. I have used bleach for 5-6 years and from my limited understanding that adds “salt,” but is it the correct salt? Will I need to drain and refill? If so I would definitely have to wait...

The last two seasons have been fighting a slight green tinge in my daughter’s long hair. Couldn’t figure out where copper was coming from and it wasn’t too bad so I didn’t worry about it too much. Fast forward to today as I’m celebrating my new maytronics e30 explorer and disconnecting the...

I have a Stenner setup that I love, but this last year has me strongly considering a SWG due to the random availability of bleach. I have Jandy equipment so for compatibility I have been looking at the plc1400. I am very comfortable with this system having replaced the chip as well as wiring the...

So my normal routine yearly has been to replace the tube, duckbill and the compression fittings. I was seeing a reduction in the amount of chlorine dosed and upon inspection found that the d shaped shaft had rounded the hole in the roller assembly. This caused the Stenner to sound normal but not...

This is the first time in 10 years of pool ownership I can’t see the bottom. All numbers look good, but after brushing it is sooo murky. Think my cartridge filter will clear it?

Hello fellow pool nerd friends. :p Noticed a number of these on the bottom of my pool and was trying to figure out what they were. They were all where my first return jet would deposit them. They are magnetic, smaller than a bb, similar to shotgun shot maybe :unsure: any thoughts? Are they...

So I’m always greeted with pictures at the top of the page and some of them really pique my interest. Is there any way to find what posts link to them?

How did I not know about this before? It is so much more simple and repeatable than the Taylor kit that I’ve been using for years. Any drawbacks? A video in action

I thought I would share my tale of Iron stained fun. Starting last year I noticed that my skimmer basket was brownish and I was starting to get some light brown ring around the pool. I dismissed it as a scum line and vigorously scrubbed it with a magic eraser and had results that weren’t...

Sorry if this was posted before...

Just like the title says. It might be a 36x18. My neighbor had it for a few years in his garage sitting in a box never opened... He gave it to me when they moved. I put it on our pool a few weeks ago for three days and realized again that I am not a fan. It it has been folded up and shaded for...

This time last year I was desperate to see videos of pool builds. I may have watched every one of them on the interwebs. This is the second pool we have built in the period of about five years, and my pool builder said they were not offering a buy two get one free. Pft, what the heck...

I was was looking to build a structure over my equipment pad mostly to keep my Stenner pump out of blazing Sacramento afternoon sun. I've seen the video where they guy from Arizona rigged up a few panels, but it felt kind of amateurish so I went with two solarworld 295 panels and enphase micro...

So currently I run my full dose at the end of the day because I am of the mindset that the sun is off of the pool by then and I would have full strength dose for the night. Then through the day, the FC is burned off by the sun with enoughresidual to last until the nightly dose. (Cl coasts down...

New pool, builder came and set up equipment to run 6hrs at 1750rpm and one hour at 3000 rpm for the cleaner. There is a Jandy 3 way valve to divert between return lines and the pool sweep. They mentioned that it was a (set and forget) valve. Currently set for around 75% pool sweep and 25%...

So we just completed our second pool build and we have basically committed to installing solar for pool heating. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, our only available roof space is north facing due to our PV solar on the south roof. I've taken a close look at the...