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Looking for advice. I noticed a single tile off in my skimmer. It quickly turned into several with fairly large chunks of gunite (I assume that’s what it is) coming off. I am pretty handy but this looks complex. Looking for advice and / or a name of someone in the greater Sacramento area that...

Ive been chasing a spa leak for a month. I have a crack in the bench and thought that was the issue. As I was using dye to test the crack I noticed that there’s an area about 11” from the crack that has a hallow sound when I tap on it. I’m going to see if this is the cause of the leak. I looked...

Hi i have a gunite spa with pebble tec that spills into my pool. The front of the spa, where the spill way is, is about 20” above the pool. There’s a crack in the pebble tec on one of the benches but I’ve used red dye to see if it’s causing the leak but it doesn’t seem like it is. I have done...

I live in Eldorado Hills CA and am looking for someone to patch a few cracks in my pebble tech spa. Any help would be appreciated. Ed

I have a pentagram variable pump and 4 c4000 cartridge Hayward filter. Today I cleaned the cartridges like I always do, put the lid back on, primed the pump with water. As always, it looked like everything was fine until the pump kicked down in RPM. A rush of air came in. I tried holding the...

I’ve been mapping out my pool Plumbing so I know what’s what. I’ve got most of it figured out. If you look in my spa, there are three inlets that are not part of the normal jets. They are labeled 1,2,3 in the picture. 1 is the filter return under normal pool circulation as it dumps into the...

Hi I ran the spa this morning and shut it off. 30 min later it dropped several inches. During normal operation, my filter pumps into my spa which overflows into my pool. I shut off the return to the spa and removed the check valve (see red arrow). No water leaked through the valve. I left...

I’ve been having bubbles coming from the filter inlets into the pool. The filter itself has had a few in the lid. It hasn’t caused any real issue yet. I thought I saw a minor leak near the inlet to my filter pump and just had my pool service replace the pipe. They did a great job. I certainly...

Hi My PB4-60 just started leaking around the seal. Looking on line, seems like an easy fix. As I searched for the seal kit, I noticed there may be different ones given when it was as made but I can’t figure out which one I need for my 1999 pump. Can anyone tell me the correct seal kit for a...

I am replacing my Hayward Astro lite. I taped the new wire to the old and as I was pulling it through I detached. Bummer. I thought the duct tape would be enough. I purchased a fish tape and can get it through. Every time I try pulling the wire through it pulls off. I've tried more tape, tried...

After lots of great help from folks on this site, I finally understand my pool and spa plumbing. It's now time to try and solve my spa leak. My spa and pool are both pebble tec. Over the past several days I've watched the spa leak down about 1" or so overnight without the pool return dumping...

I have a spa attached to my pool. In normal "pool mode" water cycles through the spa and overflows into the pool. In spa mode I can see the two motorized jandy valves move such that 1) pull water from spa instead of pool and 2) return water to spa. So far I get it. I have two returns on the...

Hi I'm trying to figure out my spa plumbing as I try to find a leak. In the corner, between the spa fill during normal filtering (above and not pictured) and the heater return (below) is a jet. I thought it was a normal jet as that's what it looks like but no water comes out of it when I turn...

My spa that dumps into my pool has a jandy valve on the suction side right before the pump as well as when on the output of the pump. They are both wide open. What's the reason for these valves?

I've be trying to figure out where I'm getting air into my line. I ended up sticking a drain king into the inlet of the pump and saw a tiny drip at the first glued junction (in picture it's where the gray pipe hits the black). It's slow and while it's a pain to see air coming out of my pool...

I have what appears to be a drain like the ones in my spa on the bottom of my pool in the deep end. I assume it's hooked up through my skimmer given what I've read. In the shallow end and between the shallow and the deep end, I have three other "things" that I don't recognize. What are these...

I have an Aqualink that controls my pentair intelliflo variable speed pump. Everything works fine. However, I'd like to be able to run the pump at its highest RPM for a few minutes after I clean the pump basket or the filter to make sure I get all the air out. How can I do this from the pump...

I have to replace my Hayward 583 astrolite pool light. Do I have to drain the water to below the light to do it? Only reason I ask is they state the need to use 3m potting compound around the ground. Perhaps I don't need to change the ground wire? Is it separate wire from the light wire? Thanks...

My h400 stopped working this week. I'd like to pull the top off and look for debris. I've read the manual and it's not obvious how to do something as simple as this. How do I remove the top? Ed

I have two lights in my pool. About a month ago, one started to get dim and eventually failed. I replaced it and both worked. Last week the other one went out and I pulled it out and put a regular 100w bulb in just to check the socket and it worked. I put the 500w bulb back in and turned it on...

I've been reading over the jandy manual for 2 hours and am having trouble understanding something. https://www.poolzoom.com/index.php/fileuploader/download/download/d/0/file/custom/upload/File-1382560673.pdf/ It says: 1) the smallest slot on the output shaft is directly above the valve...

Hi, It's been raining for days here in California and today while there's break, I turned on my spa and the heater wont work. It has an "IF" error code which I guess means ignition failure. I've turned it on and off again a few times and can smell gas as it trys to light itself without success...