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I needed to shock a little and was at Lowe’s and they were out of normal bleach so I picked this up. It wasn’t until after I added 3 gallons to my pool that I realized there was extra ingredients here. From the label… Contains Sodium Hypochlorite, Sodium Hydroxide, Surfactants and Silicate...

I lost 1.75” in my pool water level in 60 hours. I had a bucket filled up and it lost only 1” in the same time. I’m worried about a leak and this seems to confirm it. A couple things that might be throwing test off is the pool is heated, the water level was 3” below the top of the bucket, and it...

Opened the pool this year and it’s taking extra long to clear up. I’ve been using liquid chlorinator for a week and keeping levels very high. I don’t have a full test kit anymore so I just have strips and a basic OTO kit. The pool has so much chlorine in it it has been almost brown on the oto...

Just set it up. PH was off the charts. Took quite a bit of muriatic acid to bring it down. Then I over compensated and it went really low. Added baking soda to increase. Now PH is 7.2, but TA is 250+. I don’t want to get into a never ending cycle here, but also don’t want to scale my new...

Please see attached picture. I'm not 100% on what the pipe 3rd from the left is used for. I just got a Pentair INtelliflo VSF and I was thinking about completely eliminating both of my single speed pumps with this one if possible. The water feature was running on a 1.5HP and the filter on a 1HP...

Just got this pump and had a couple of questions. First of all, currently I have 2 single speed pumps, 1 HP for the filter and a 1.5HP for a small water feature. My filter pump is the one I’m replacing. 1. Can I use this pump for both filter and the water feature? It would be nice to take...

So my filter pump has a large leak. The water feature pump didn’t. I had them swap out the pump and housing so I could run the filter to get the water ready and then figure out the water feature in the next few days. After investigating the pump I saw what looks like a imperfection. I’ve...

Pump is about 4 years old. I woke up this morning with it hot but not running. Pump basket was full of water and had no air in it. When I kick it on it just hums. Left it off for about 30 minutes. Same result. Just humming. Could this be a capacitor? I’m thinking capacitor / motor / pump. Where...

So I installed this system 3 years ago. I had the si-40 cell and it started showing check cell and then it wouldn’t generate any chlorine. I purchased a Si-45 cell which Circupool told me was the direct replacement for the discontinued si-40. I installed it and it’s ram great for 3 days. Now...

So I bought two skim around all in ones as my skimmers weren’t working the best and after installing them it seems my suction it too low to have the swirl effect they are talking about. After a call to support they said my filter needed changing. That made sense to me as I had a 4 year old...

They are very hard white stains. They can be chipped away, but not really cleaned. Any recommendations on how to soften and clean?

I'm considering converting to salt chlorination after a couple outbreaks due to my schedule being busy. My pool is going through a gallon of 10% a day. Overnight fc level test passed. My CYA is lower this year, maybe that's the reason. Anyway I like the idea of better feeling water when we swim...

So I moved into a house with a pool last season. Used only liquid chlorine last year and not one issue. Today I woke up to a cloudy pool. Could still see the bottom, but cloudy for sure. Anyway I tested water and I was at 0 chlorine because I just ran out yesterday. I was in a bind so I used...

Finally got around to this today. Everything went smooth. I was replacing a failed starite 333,000 max e therm. NG. Hooked it up to easy touch and never got any lights on heater. Pulled the two wire connection and used the jumper to troubleshoot. Lights on unit then came on. Heating light will...

I've seen a similar post, and the consensus was to just cut the line. Obviously you would need to double check that the gas was off, but I wanted to include a picture and see if anyone has any advice on where I should start to disconnect this without cutting. My situation is I'm replacing this...

I have a Starite 333k BTU on order and I'm taking it on this weekend after the local pool company told me that total installed price would be $3100. I got it on amazon for $1989. I told my pool company that I would be ok with $500 more than that if they wanted to do it and it should be an easy...

I bought a house with a 20,000 gallon IG pool. They said the heater went out after 2 years. It's a sta-rite 333 which I think stands for 333,000BTU. I'm looking at replacing it with a Hayward H400FDN Universal H-Series Low NOx 400,000 BTU Natural Gas Residential Pool and Spa Heater. My question...

Ok first a little history. I bought a house with pool. Never owned a pool before. Booster pump and main pump failed at first opening. Pool company did a bad job of selling me on a variable speed pump. They basically said that it was going to cost 1000 more and may save me some electricity. So I...