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    Urgently Need your help/suggestion/idea

    I opened my pool in the first week of May. everything is routine and water clear up very nicely with crystal clear. Bad part, I accidentally add the food graded DE to my DE filter when I took my DE filter apart and clean which is normally do after all the parameters checked and good for...
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    your recommendation on Power Powder from Leslie

    Hi everyone, I saw Power Powder from Leslie and i am thinking of buy them to shock my pool during opening process. I read the reviews and they say bad. Anyone from here recommend this product or alternative product to shock the pool? I plan to shock the pool and then add salt generator to...
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    air in the pump basket

    I need help to find out what is going on with my system. I have a VS Jacuzzi 2.5HP pump. 1) Observation: two skimmers, one at deep end and one at shallow end. the deep end skimmer pulled a lot of water while shallow is gentle pull. if I keep both skimmers ports wide open, the far end skimmer...
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    need help with Leaks

    just installed a new Jacuzzi pump in replacement of my old Pentair Whisperflo. There are few mechanical things that worry me. 1) air bubbles at all pressure side eyeballs outlet 2) dripping slow at the waste port regardless where the position of the of diverter valve. I currently set it at...
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    need help in chemistry and leak problems

    Hi everyone, I just finish my pool retaining wall. so I hook up my new Jacuzzi pump (new) fired it up and there are few things that I see not quite right. open the pool cover, I can see the pool bottom. First time ever open the poo cover and see the bottom (i bought the house last April and...
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    want to convert to salt BUT....

    Hi everyone, we bought the house last year with the pool that built in 1993 with 1.5" pipe on pressure and on suction sides. I would like to run SWG on the pool but don't know about their bonding. is there anyway that I can check to see the pool is correctly bonded? or any bonding mitigation...
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    can I open the pool with cover on

    hi everyone, I have my pool retaining wall redo due to leaning problem. They are behind the schedule to weather. can I open my pool with the tarp cover on it? I don't want any of those dust and red clay dirt from the retaining wall get into my pool. can I just ran the pump to circulate the...
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    help me to select a new pump

    I would like to purchase a variable speed pump from pentair 011018 IntelliFlow that will help to run the polaris 360 pressure side skimmer. with underground 1.5" pipes, would the 3HP pentair pump put too much pressure on the schedule 40 pipes (330 W.P PSI max)?. is there any other pump beside...
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    Hello from Branchburg, NJ

    hi everyone, I just bought a house in Branchburg, NJ. it is the first time ever in my life to own a swimming pool. i always love to have a pool. it is an inground pool with dimension of 20x40. I am glad that I found this online community that help pool owner to self service and self pool...