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    Skimmer Sucking Too Hard?

    I have a 30000gal in-ground pool with heyward pump and filter. The pool as two skimmers. The skimmer on deep end seems works fine but the skimmer at the shallow end of the pool has started to suck all water out of the skimmer basket down the drain until it starts sucking air in. The basket...
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    Can I add bleach like this?

    I have a 28000 in-ground gunnite pool and this year I am trying to make the switch from chlorine tabs to bleach. So far so good but already in the May heat of Dallas Tx, I find myself adding 1 to 1.5 gallons of 8.25% per day, typically by manually dumping half in the morning and half when I get...
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    What can I do while Pool is Empty to rid it of yellow algae

    I have a 30000gallon, in-ground, Gunite pool. Have been struggling with yellow algae for the past two years. May have had balance off for at a time to let the yellow stuff in, but since discovering the problem I’ve checked the chemistry weekly and kept in balance - Chlorine, Ph, CYA...
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    Yellow Algae and Pool Resurfacing

    I have a 28000 in-ground Gunnite & Plaster pool and have been fighting yellow algea for the past year. Seems to appear, then I do the Yellow-Out treatment and it seems to disappear for a while but then reappears. Coincidentally (not related to the algae problem) I need to have my pool...