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Had a gorgeous 70-80° day yesterday at the end of April. Pool is still upper 40s / low 50s but I went ahead and opened. It was pretty clear. Lots of debris on the bottom but so be it. - Deep cleaned the sand filter. Went way longer than normal, a good 60-90 minutes of flushing it out. Got a...

How do I replace these fixtures starting to rust? Drain pool below them, remove, replace? Anything I need to watch for?

I've been keeping a thread in the "Swimming Pool Start-up and Closing" subforum the past couple of years with just an ongoing journal/log of my pool experiences in general. Would a subforum just for people's pool journals make sense? Or is it fine for them to stay there?

Currently my waste line is underground 1.5" PVC that runs out to the back of my small suburban lot. This puts the water coming out right down into the yard of a neighbor. I've worked to clean up a rock bed channel that someone must have put together to make the water go to the edge of their lot...

Hey all! I finally didn't get an eyeroll from the wife when bringing up a SWCG for the first time, and instead was being asked questions about cost, longevity, ease of install, salt to add, etc. So it sounds like she's giving me approval to investigate adding a SWCG. :D My current pad looks...

Hmm - looking like opening time? Let’s get some chlorine on the way home and get the cover off, see what we’re dealing with. :D

Looking ahead to pool equipment updates over the next year or two, and wondering if it's worth it. I do like having an app or something so I could turn up the heater remotely, or change the pump settings remotely, but that might be a lot of expense for what I can get. I currently have a...

Current setup is below. I need to replace the Jandy valve on the suction side. A couple of the screws are stripped out and the plastic loops on the top of the cap where the screws go are broken on several screws. I got a new Jandy valve and am ready to start. I also plan on cutting the skimmer /...

I was getting a 0002 error on my pump, and had to spin the impeller from behind with an Allen wrench to get it to start whenever it stopped. I took it apart, cleaned up some pine needles that had gotten into it, and put it back together. Wife noticed some water leaking, and someone here had...

My burners look like this in use. Natural gas heater. How do I troubleshoot?

Opened my pool last weekend. Pump is throwing a 0002 error and motor not starting whenever it is stopped, until I take an allen wrench and give the impeller a few turns from the back side. My suspicion is that pine needles got into the impeller and are lodged between the impeller and the casing...

Hey guys, back from off-season! Well, almost. Maybe? It’s unseasonably cool this spring. I have a heater but not sure if anyone will swim when the weather is sub-60. :/ I guess I can open tomorrow. No harm.

I had to send my robot back as it wasn't working, and Maytronics said not to bother sending back the caddy - then sent me a whole robot as a replacement, new in box including a caddy. As such I have a brand-new caddy I don't need. Anyone want it for $50 + shipping? I think the normal retail is...

So - my wife composts. A year or so ago we ate cherries and the cherry pits went into the compost. Fast forward to this spring - now I have cherry trees sprouting from my flower beds. I'm pulling most of them but somewhat considering leaving one or two to see if they survive over by the pool...

Brand new Dolphin Active 30i. Put in water for first time, ran fine for 20-30 minutes. Then it just turned off, red ring on the power supply. Checked impeller, basket clean, nothing in the tracks visible. Every time I try to run it, after 30-60 seconds, it just shuts off again with the red...

Well, pool hit 53 over the last week, so I planned to open this weekend. Yesterday I had a buddy over to help file his taxes, so he helped me get the cover off. Water isn’t too awful. Next I opened up the filter to deep clean it. Got the hose out. Scratched my head a bit because the hose...

Currently my waste line goes all the way around to the other side of the pool and out to the back of the property. There it discharges, and is intended to (I think) run along a channel lined with stones, out to between the two houses of neighbors' property. But it just goes into their yards and...

Our heater didn’t work at all last year, until we had someone fix it right at the end of the year. It fired up this year but since has been spotty about starting again over the last couple of days. We’re going to see if it can be fixed again but it might be throwing good money after bad - this...

Having an issue carrying over from the end of last year - my water pressure will suddenly drop from around 15 to about 10 with no reason I can find. Turning the pump off and on again corrects it. Here’s a short video I made of the low pressure turning it off and correcting it to the high pressure.

Probably too early....it’s still in the 40s at night and 50s during the day. But my kids were begging and the heater seems to be working. :) Tested and as expected, no FC or CYA. Got 5 lbs of CYA in an old bra bag of my wife’s dangling in front of the shallow return, and 2 gals of 12.5% liquid...

I just got notification that my WaterGuru shipped. I should get it Monday. I’ll start a thread about how accurate it is when I get it. :)

Going to need to change out the liner on this pool at a house we just bought. It's old, and I tore through it just by hitting it too hard with the plastic end of my brush. I'm going to be sourcing out a company to replace it. What sort of qualifications should I be looking for? What do I watch...

Pulling this out of my intro thread as it probably deserves its own. Intro thread here: New Member / Owner Will summarize here. I cleaned the sand out in my filter yesterday. I didn't take a note of the water level before doing so, but did on Saturday night around 8pm, and it was normal. By the...

Hey guys! Right now my pump is on a literal light switch (in an exterior fixture). I've been turning it off and on manually to keep it running while we're at work (when I'm not doing something that requires it to be always on) but it's only a matter of time before we forget and it stays off and...

I imagine there aren’t any reliable WiFi devices for testing chlorine, alkalinity, CYA, etc. or people would be bringing them up when discussing test kits, but does anyone have a remote temperature and maybe even pH gauge to recommend? Something that would display on a smartphone, perhaps with a...

Just bought a new house with a pool. It has the heater from this manual: https://www.parts4heating.com/v/vspfiles/images/pdfs/MiniMaxCH.pdf There’s a conduit running to the heater but it has no electrical wire in it. However, I’m not seeing anything in this manual about an electrical...

Hi everyone! Just bought a new house in April. I live in Wisconsin, so I didn’t open the pool until about three weeks ago. Thought I would share my experiences as a new pool owner, and if anyone is bored enough or entertained enough by my ramblings to get through the read, they could give advice...

Hi! New to the forum, new house and first time ever owning a pool. Got it open, Looks pretty good, but I keep getting these things in my pool, sometimes 6-10 in a day. Any idea what they are?