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I am back here after 5 months... I ended up with a second round of a spinal disc infection, my Universal 40 cell went out when I was in the hospital, pool started to turn green, and I have been out commission for just about 5 months. I suspect the reason why the cell went bad after only 2.5...

I am going to stay home this upcoming weekend for a change. I am thinking of doing a drain on Saturday. I will use a utility pump to do it. I am considering shutting off the auto fill and all of the equipment, letting it go on Saturday morning and draining down until the evening. Then...

Well, not only am I having to descale the cell every 3 weeks now due to CH (I want to wait for the end of the monsoon here which should be soon to draw down and refill the pool 6" a couple of times)... but now there is this. I regret buying the Universal 40 now. Does anyone know if I can...

So, about five weeks ago I finally had to clean the cell again... I made it a LONG time this time after finally getting the TA under 100 in the pool (like 10+months)... that was the 3rd time in 2.5 (less than) years since I first put it in. I guess I didn't get it completely clean as I needed to...

Among three other disasters that happened on a long planned weekend away, my hot tub I think probably has lost it's heating element. (That is most likely but I haven't dug into it yet.) It is popping the GFCI in the Spa Panel. This was particularly embarrassing as when we were away my across...

So when you are starting up a salt pool, is it normal to have mixing issues with the salt in what I would call both directions? I just measured the salt level again, twice, and now my level which shot up unexpectedly to 3000 PPM is down to 2400. My pH finally went up a bit which is good...

Is there any issues with installing the cells vertically than horizontally when using a VSP? would I have to increase speed/pressure much more than in a horizontal install at low speeds? I can do it horizontally but it's going to be more Rube Goldberg than I thought! Vertical would be much...

Okay.. I am about to add a Circupool SWCG in a matter of several days (it's on its way), and I have been having the same sort of issue I always have had here in Arizona with Low pH and high Total Alkalinity. I admit I need to get the kids in the water and splash a lot.. but it's still cold...

This should be no surprise to any of the TFP people, but apparently it seems the COVID-19 virus is even more sensitive than most other viruses to Chlorine. This also means that if you are on a city water system you don't have to buy out Costco's entire supply of bottled water, either. Enjoy...

Continued from the "introduce yourself thread". The pool was laid out on Friday and we will have the dig on Wednesday (of course moved from Tuesday). We saved a little more gravel. I calculated the volume to be about 14,500 gallons, so yes it's intentionally a small pool. PB thought 15k to...

A brief hello since it is suggested.. I'll add more as the next weeks go by. I moved to the Tucson area from Iowa about a year and a half ago and I made the promise to my wife that I would find her a place with a pool. When she decided to buy a house without one, I figured... whew! I dodged a...