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    Argh! Can't Close Pump Drain Hole, Any Fix? or Must Buy New?

    So, within a few minutes, we've gone from moving smoothly through a first solo pool opening (neighbor helped last year) to an unsealable hole at the bottom of our pump that we've caused and can't find a way to fix. Help! - any ideas what to do? Here's what happened: As part of opening...
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    Better to remove leaves from pool or mesh cover?

    Our pool is directly under two large oak trees. We have been getting large amounts of acorns and recently leaves falling for the past month, and I look up to all that will still come down!?! Should we close the pool sooner or later??? If we close -- The pool came to us with a loop-loc mesh...
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    Cloudy from Rain or No Chlorine or DE or Something Else?

    We bought a house with a pool last month and, after learning loads from you kind folks, maintaining it so far has truly been trouble free... until today. The pool has gone from sparkly to very cloudy overnight. I realized then that the floating chlorinator was not in the pool (kids) and may...
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    New Owner - How do I turn on filter and vacuum?

    Another house purchase that came with a pool - our first. Only in the house a few days, had the pool guys who did work on it a few years ago come to open it yesterday and then drain and clean it (it had not been taken care of in a year and had dark brown very smelly water full of acorns). A...