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I'm about to being my next wave of pool upgrades. So far, I have... Pentair Whisperflo Pump (being upgraded to an Intellflo very soon) Pentair LED 5G Pool Light with controller Pentair IC40 Salt System Pentair CCP420 filter I'm having new 100amp service ran to this area so I can break out...

Hey guys, My hot tub/spa has seen better days and I'm now having consistent issues with keeping it running/pumping. Filled the spa up a few weeks ago, cleaned it really good, put in chemicals. Kicked it on (110V, running to a 20Amp outlet with nothing else on it) and it ran for about 30...

I went to the local pool store yeserday to get an education about salt chlorine generators. I wanted to stick with Pentair as my other equipment is all Pentair. The guy behind the counter showed me both the IC20 and the IC40 system and then asked how big my pool was. When I told him I had a...

With the new years comes more money to throw at the pool, so I'm considering the move to an Intelliflo mid-summer. I have a wonderful 3/4HP whisperflo right now. It's substantially better on the electric bill than the 2HP Hayward I had before. Is there any way to swap out some components...

Hey guys! Long time. Work has me a bit crazy but I finally have the time to dedicate to my pool. Decide to let it go over the winter, save myself the $50/month I spend on electricity to run the pump. I also went from the little Hayward filter below to picking up my new Pentair CCP420 this week...

My pool in Michigan had this awesome winter cover with snaps that was specifically sized for my pool. It rolled out, snapped down every foot or so and stayed taunt, even with snow laying on it. I'm looking for a company in Florida preferrably who can make something like this for me. Does anyone...

Daring and dumb go together, and none more than when I attempt to repair things like the pool light. An electrician friend of mine came out and brought all of my pool electrical up to code. He's been doing this stuff for 20+ years and felt bad for me after seeing how I had taking it from...

The single return on my pool is just a hole coming out of the concrete. There's no eyeball, and seemingly no obvious way to install one. Is there a kit available to retrofit an eye-ball style return on these kind of openings? or would I have to have a pool contractor come out and cut into the...

A friend of mine asked me to help her open her pool this year. When I got there, about 24 hours ago, it was a wicked green. She had been running the DE filter for a solid two weeks 24 hours/day and it stayed green. Lots of chemicals from the pool store (and over $250 in costs for them!), she was...

I have an opportunity to buy a 3 year old Pentair Intellichlor salt unit. The cell was replaced 10 months ago and it's from a house going into foreclosure. The price is right ($200), but I'm not sure on the longevity of a used unit like this. What should I look for in buying a used unit? What is...

After the balancing of my water was completed a few weeks back, I've been able to hold free chlorine. I'm consistently between 2ppm and 3ppm and have been adding about 2 gallon per week. I brought my stabilizer up to 60ppm two weeks ago when I added chlorine. At the time, I was showing 2ppm...

I know you can add a bit of DE to sand filters. Is there any reason I couldn't add DE to a cartridge filter? Would it make it more efficient? Would it ruin the cartridge? With no backwash valve, would I have to clean the filter as I normally do by removing it, washing it out and then adding back...

It's interesting watching my pool evolve. Since the cleanup, I've dealt with a couple weeks of pollen, a couple of weeks of heavy leaf fall. The newest infestation is beetles. There's literally dozens of beetles every day that appear floating dead on top of the water. This is on top of the 100+...

One thing I never paid much attention to before but bothers me now that the water is clean and pristine is the circular staining that is rust colored all over the deep end in my pool. It seems to go in a wide arching circle around the deep end, about 2 foot from the main drain out to the walls...

With the pool drained, I know I have to start over on chemicals. My chlorine levels are at shock currently (and leaking with the rest of the pool water), so I know with the leak team fixing my issue tomorrow morning, I need to add stabilizer soon. The pool store's answer is to sell me 4 bags of...

After cleaning and draining and refilling the pool, the leak still exists. I patched all around the light with 2 part marine grade epoxy. That didn't seem to help. I'm back to assuming the leak is somewhere else, as I lost another 4" overnight with the pump off. Bucket test lost 1/4". There's...

Just when I thought the fun was over with my pool, a careless contractor came in and kicked the fun up to 11. This morning, I had 10 yards of top soil brought into my back yard to level out the clay and plant grass. He dumped it where it was supposed to be and then, while shaking the box to...

I ran a bit of a test today. I pulled three separate samples of pool water and brought it to both of my pool stores and my TF kit. It's interesting how much these can vary. My results (TF-100) FC - 5 CC - 1 TC - 3 ph - 6.8 T/A - 100 CH - 320 CYA - 90 Temp - 81 degrees Pinch A Penny # 1 FC -...

4 missed appointments, $2900, a set of permits and lots of frustration later, my privacy fence/pool fence is now up. Here's some before photos: .... and some after photos.

My current pool electrical is a nightmare. Here's a photo: There's a series of posts sticking out of the ground with wires coming from all over the place. One was a 15 AMP lead going to nothing. It might have one had an outlet on it, but for now it's just capped off going to nothing. One...

As the last of the dirt makes it's way into the main drain, I'm curious where I can buy a main drain cover. Mine has the pipe in the bottom exposed. Others I've seen have a cover with slits in the top and sides to keep big debris out so it only pulls in dirt. Are all of these covers the same...

I have a number of the little red PVC valves throughout my pump setup to control the skimmer, main drain, intake for the vacuum, etc.etc. With the pump off, they're still a pain to move with bare hands. Upgrading to a wrench, I've managed to sheer the wings right off from one of them. Is...

While my little cartridge filter (Hayward C12002 Filter with knockoff CX1200RE cartridge) does an alright job, I've been considering the move to sand both to eliminate the constant cleaning of the filter element and to get some improved efficiency through sand filtration. Everything I've read...

Several people I know are having their homes foreclosed on, and thus I have a chance to buy one of many cheap (sub $200) hot tubs/spas for my new place. Most of these are 5-6 person units, and all have minor issues. Which one would you choose and why? #1 - New heater and electronics a year...

After running my human-powered vacuum every day several hours a day for the last couple of weeks, the pool is finally making some headway. That said, I'm neglecting other duties which make me money, so I've decided to take the plunge to automate this process as much as possible so I can spend my...

My pump and filter are exposed to the elements, mounted on a concrete pad about 10 feet from my pool. They have no shelter, but I was considering building one. I wasn't going to do it for asthetic reasons, simply to cover up the pump and electrical from rain. Is this something you would...

Florida had it's first few really hot days the last few days and my pool lost almost a foot of water over those two days. I think it has to be because of evaporation, as the pool has been full of water for over a month at or near the full level and I'd barely lost more than an inch or two in...

I have a pipe on my return side with a very slight leak at a fitting. It's where a 1 1/2" pipe meets another, at the joint. The leak is slight.. I'd say if it lost a cup of water a day, that's a lot. Is there a way to seal this with some kind of tape? I've tried saturating the pipe in the blue...

Consider this the BEFORE picture. This pool sat for 3+ years before I got to it. You see the plastic sheeting scraps on the deck? The pool was full of it. I'll post some current pictures this weekend, after it's nice and blue.

The new pump went in yesterday afternoon and it's been pumping all night. It's so quiet! Also, the bubbles that used to fill the old pump's window are now gone. I think it was just sucking air from pulling too hard! That said, had my water tested last night after letting it run for a couple of...