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    Pool collapse - new pool options

    Two years ago we bought a house with a 27' round Ester Williams pool which had been buried except for about a foot. Hard to tell exactly since there was a deck around it. The previous owner gave us paper where he had replaced the liner about 2-3 years before we bought the house. The original...
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    New pump recommendations

    I've been researching all evening trying to figure out if my current sand filter is adequately sized for the pool. Sand Filter: Swim Pro 236T with this: Effective filtration area: 2.53ft2 filtration rate: 25 gpm/ft2 filter & backwash design flow rate: 63 gpm Pump is 1.5HP From what I can...
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    Filtering Issue - Pump or multiport valve

    Need help troubleshooting. After a very long battle of getting rid of algae and the water turning green due to metals, my water turned cloudy and I can't seem to get it cleared. I've still been testing every night and morning with the drop test. My FC doesn't show any change over night and the...
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    AG Pool Cleaner Suggestion

    For all the years we've had this pool and our first one, the pool cleaner has been me. Sometimes the rest of the family would help but most of the time they would go too fast and I would just have to do it anyway. When we bought this pool it came with a baracuda. I tried using it but it wouldn't...
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    Algae - High chlorine - high TA - high PH - Need help

    First of all let me say thanks to a great site and all the great advice and tools. I found this site a couple of years ago after becoming very frustrated with taking care of my second pool and having it turn green far too often. Our first above ground 24ftx4ft pool was green once or twice in the...