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After moving to a two speed pump last year I ended up reducing the size of most of my returns so that the pool would have some circulation when the pump was on low speed. The side effect of course was to increase the pressure on the return system with my DE filter guage going from 18psi to 25...

Had to partially drain our pool this afternoon ahead of a skimmer replacement and return repair tomorrow. It's 3', 5.5', 3' deep (deep portion in center of pool) and it's drained down about 1.5' Already skittish about pop-up risk as we've had heavy rain for the past few days and still have...

Long story short, bought a house in December and struggled to get the chemistry even in the ballpark using traditional methods. Found TFP, got a real test kit and haven't looked back. The real test came last week when our pump failed and the pool had zero circulation for a week. The water...

I've been noticing that my pump pressure has been "pulsing" by about 2 PSI for a month or so now and have been expecting the worst, a filter backwash had no effect. Today I was adding some granular CYA through one of the skimmers (very, very slowly- literally a few grains at a time) and noticed...

We just finished up with a couple of days of heavy rain which brought the pool level up around four inches. I started my SWG on a shock cycle yesterday . I did a full set of TF-100 tests today (minus CYA which will be a whole other thread on that chemistry question) and got mostly what I...

I've been using a cheap-o basic test kit and strips to try to keep our pool in range since we moved into our house in December. The water's always been clear, with minor algae issues before I installed the SWG, but the basic tests never agree with the strips which never agree with what the pool...

I grabbed a mask a few days ago and did a quick check of the pool (older pool, new to us) to see if everything looked OK. I noticed that the light had something in it up to the bottom of the bulb. I pulled it tonight to see what was going on and found this: Looks like the potting material...

Hi all, first post. New owner of a (not new) pool. I have a Polaris 360 (named Jacques per my daughter) and the filter screen at the pressure regulator always clogs up within a day or two of cleaning it. Most of the debris is basically chopped up versions of what I find in my filter baskets...