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    Solar heater instead of blanket

    Does anybody run a solar heater and not a blanket. My solar blanket is a pain to get on and off (above ground pool and I have to lift off reel), and I don't really have a place to put it. We actually only use it for about a month, and the rest of the summer we have more issue cooling the pool...
  2. J

    Help ammonia

    So I just figured out I probably have ammonia. I have now added 5 pounds of cal hypo and 3 gallons of 6% bleach and still no fc in a 11,500 gallon pool. UGH! My kids thought it would be fun to throw a few hundred rocks in my pool and I read somewhere that soil bacteria is what usually does...
  3. J

    timer safe?

    I have been taking care of an above ground pool for seven years and in all that time I have almost always run my pump 24/7. If I turned the pump off i tended to forget to turn it back on. I have always feared putting in a timer for fear that something would go wrong in startup and burn my pump...
  4. J

    vacuum port

    Plumbed a vacuum port today and it doesn't seem to be working. This is a 15x30 above ground pool with what I was thinking was an oversized pump (1.5 HP). I was having problems with possibly too much suction, and too high power a return because of that. This was causing all kinds of havoc with...