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I am thinking about putting up solar pool heater on my roof at the end of september and I need help understanding my plumbing. Here is a picture of exposed pipes. As shown in the picture above, I have the followings with letters shown on my picture: (A) to main pump to filter to (B) (C) to...

Various calculators estimate my pool size to be between 18,000 to 22,000 gallons. However, when I pour in 1 jug of GV 6% bleach (182 oz) I get 5.5 ppm increase in ch. That puts my pool size at around 16,000 gal. What do you think?

Thank you TFP. At times, I got lazy a bit but my pool is in its best shape ever. I would like to make it better with your help. I've had very fine sediments that I could not get rid of using polaris pressure side vacuum. I tried a finer net but still same thing. I get fine dust sediments on my...

Hi everyone, I got my test kit last night but waited till this morning. It was pretty easy to do and I now realize why stirrer is recommended. Anyway, here are my results. FC: 12 CC: 0 TC: 12 PH: 8.2 T/A: 110 CH: 300 CYA: 60 Temp: 48 So far, I've took the floating chlorinator out. CYA is...

Okay. As soon as I posted that I don't need a manual vacuum because i hardly get any leaves in the pool all year, wind blows pretty strong for two days and I had enough leaves stuck in the skimmer to constrict flows. I think polaris 280 wasn't working as usual due to low flow or something. My...

Is my cartridge filter supposed to filter silts in the water? I don't think the net on polaris 280 is capturing it. I notice some sand like deposits on stairs. When I sweep it with brush, water got cloudy and it dissipated into deep end. I am guessing that I am supposed to stirred up often so...

There are two parts to my first post. It’s very long and might contain some trivial questions. First, I wanted to rant about my soon to be ex-pool man. Second part is my questions on what I have so far. I’ve been a pool owner for a year now (bought a house with a pool). Initially, there...