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This is our sixth season in our house, which has a plaster pool that was basically a swamp when we bought it. It cleaned up pretty well and we haven't had any significant issues, but I do have an algae question somebody may be able to help me on. I'm familiar with the traditional green algae...

Three years ago we bought a house with a pool. Getting it running was an adventure. The house was a foreclosure and the pool was untouched for three years. It was a swamp, complete with a dead deer on the bottom that we didn't know about until it was drained. But that's the past, and it's...

This is my first season owning an 18 year old pool in a house we bought this spring. Pool had been unused for 3 years, was a disgusting green swamp, and we had it drained and acid washed. Came out looking great. However... When the guys were draining and cleaning it the business owner...

Prefix: I'm new to all this. Recently bought a house with an 18 year old broken Jandy One Touch system on a pool/spa combination. I completely replaced the 18 year old Jandy control box and added an iAqualink last weekend (my Saturday) and replaced the filter pump with a Pentair Inteliflo VSF...

This is undoubtedly an easy question... Trying to get my pool working and not sure what I'm looking at here in the drains... The pool has two drains at the bottom of the deep end, both look like what's pictured below. There are two ports in each drain, one of which is plugged (the one on the...

Hi there. We recently bought a foreclosure and the pool hasn't been touched in 3 years. The cover has very large tears, frays, and holes. For about 1/3 of the pool it's like not having a cover. There seems to be a pretty healthy ecosystem in there. There are literally dozens of frogs. My...