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Hello all, I just refilled my pool after having it resurfaced in aquabrite. I also us a swg, so the pool company recommended that I use a sequesterant when adding the 880 pounds of salt necessary to get my pool to 3500ppm to negate any of the impurities in the salt. As such, I used Jack’s...

Good day everyone, I have a 18 x 36 IG pool with a diving board. Last year I got a solar cover and reel, but it’s already broke a wheel and truthfully I’m sure I’m on borrowed time for it’s overall longevity. I would love to be able to put a low profile reel under the diving board and wanted...

Hello everyone, Based off a suggestion for another issue, I am looking to get a skimmer diverter float. However, when I took my skimmer basket out, I discovered that there is no place on the bottom of the skimmer for an O ring. Does this really make a difference or is there a diverter float...

Hello everyone, After having my pool sand blasted and getting aquabrite finish put on, the guys that did the aquabrite finish told me that when they did their work, they found the entire main drain filled with sand from the sandblasting guys. They told me that they shop vac’d everything that...

Good afternoon everyone. I just finished installing a new, larger sand filter for the pool. I swear I remember reading here to run the backwash for an extended period when starting the filter for the first time, but I can’t find that post again. Or it never existed and the mandela effect has...

Hello everyone. I am having my pool coated with aquabrite next week. This is a concrete with plaster pool that will have the coating applied on top of the plaster. Should I continue to choose the plaster option for pool math or pick a different option? As always, thanks for your time and...

Hey everyone. I’m in East Tennessee and have been dealing with 9 straight days of rain. As such, I’ve been dumping water out of the pool each day. Today we have finally getting a preak from the rain but when I got up today, the pool is approximately 6 inches lower then when I dumped water last...

Good day everyone, This year, we got a solar cover and as such we had a little bit of a learning curve on what setting to adjust our SWG to considering that most of the week the pool is covered and was resulting in high chlorine levels. Eventually, we went to low on thr SWG and got an algae...

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the correct size filter. I inherited a Hayward S244T sand filter when I bought this house. I have decided to replace it with a new sand filter due to some issues with the current one. When I went to researching new sand filters I came across a...