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I have a ~15,000 gallon pool (pebbletec) that I began maintaining myself last fall. We recently had a pretty heavy calcium scale line (12-year old pool) blasted off and I was hoping the draining required to do the work would help with CYA, but it wasn't really enough to make a dent. Chlorine...

The pool at the home we bought less than a year ago has an attached spa with spillover design. We don’t use spa mode regularly. It recently hit me that relying on just pool mode/the spillover might not provide enough filtration for the water in the spa. Am I overthinking this, or is there a...

I have a Mastertemp 400 at a home we purchased a couple of months ago. It's about 10 years old. A nearby lightning strike damaged some of the pool equipment recently. The circuit boards in the EasyTouch and wireless link both had to be replaced and the surge bricked the heater. I replaced the...

A lightning strike fried my EasyTouch Board and the Outdoor Transceiver a couple weeks ago. I replaced the board right away and it works as before. I just got the High Power Wireless kit I ordered and swapped out the indoor and outdoor transceivers (the protocol adapter seemed to be fine)...

A lightning strike this afternoon seems to have fried the motherboard in our Pentair EasyTouch 8. Capacitors and a couple of wiring harnesses were blown completely off. I've ordered a replacement board, but it might be next week before it arrives. Is there a relatively easy way to bypass the...

I think my skimmers got too full of leaves and caused the pump to start taking in air. At some point the thermal protection kicked in, but now I can't get the pump to prime. When I turn it on, the motor starts but doesn't sound normal (has kind of a whine that gets more high-pitched the longer...

I bought a simple PVC fountain/aerator to try and keep the pool a little cooler but am having trouble installing it. The fountain has a male, threaded 1 1/2" end. I unscrewed one of the return eyeballs but it seems to be 1 5/8" or maybe metric (also male threaded). Since it's not a standard PVC...

We're going to be gone for a couple days next week. Is it better to use pucks to keep the FC where it needs to be while we're gone, or should I just use bleach to get it up to a point that it will stay above the min. for 48-36 hours. If pucks are the way to go, is there a formula for how many...

It possible to be losing FC to organics even if testing is showing less than .5 CC. My CYA is 50-60 But I seem to be losing a lot of FC. I added bleach to get it up to 7, yesterday just before sundown. (although I didn't do a drop test to confirm after adding the bleach. I do know it jumped up...

Just got the TF-100 the other day and after getting familiar with it and doing some more pool school reading, I'm comfortable that I have my first set of accurate numbers with the test. I had used a combination of a PH/FC kit and test strips before this. Obviously, some of the numbers are...

TF-100 came today so of course I've been getting familiar with it and doing my testing. I have a question about the CH test though. Do I mix/swirl the solution in between drops of R-0012 or just add the drops steadily until the color completely changes? Thanks!

I've posted my project on another site but came across this one as well. Since I was able to find a lot of good remodel projects detailed online I figured I'd post on here as well to help out the folks out there in similar situations. We bought a house with an older pool 2 years ago. The house...