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Hi everyone. I have a 28k gallon salt water gunite pool. My Pentair single-speed pump bit the dust, unfortunately. Pool repair company has a couple of options, and I would love your input. My motor/pump is only 4 years old :( I know a variable will reduce my operating costs so that is worth...

Hi everyone. I am taking the plunge and buying a robot cleaner. I am working with Marina pools and spas. I’m having a hard time deciding between the active, or the active 60/M 600. I really want the best clean but the m600 is double the price. I appreciate the more power suction, extra motor...

Hi everyone. Been using tfp method with liquid chlorine for a few years. In January I converted to salt water with a RJ 60 Every year I fight with PH and alkalinity. I worked last summer to get it down, but now it’s up again. I am adding about a half gallon a week or muriatic. My TA this...

Hi everyone. I’ve got my Circupool RJ 60 installed. I am wiring it to my Intermatic timer. Dumb question (please be kind), how do o attached the wire to these round connectors? Do you just wrap the wire around and screw in to secure?

Hi everyone. My pool is three years old, in ground 35k gallon saltwater. My builder installed a pentair racer cleaner and a booster pump. The racer lasted about a year before it needed constant repairs through the second year. Start of year three, the booster pump gave out. So to replace the...

Hi everyone. I’ve been using TFP and pool math since I got my pool three years ago. Because of chlorine costs, I’ve decided to go to salt water. I bought the RJ60 and will install this week. Now that it is winter, will the cell even produce chlorine? We are in the 60s right now in north Texas.

Hi everyone. My pool has been built for about three years, and over the last year and a half, there has been a massive amount of sand for my flagstone coping in the pool. The pool always looks dirty. I sweep it, and within a few hours there is sand pretty much all the way around the pool. Is...

Hi everyone. I am going in to year 3 as a pool owner with an in ground pool in north Texas. My pentair boostrite pump is on its last leg, and my pentair racer is in need of a rebuild. With the cost of a new pump and parts for the racer, I am close to a robot in price. However I am very...

Hi there. I have a two year old freshwater pool in North Texas. Over the past six months, I have noticed a lot of dirt in my pool. Chalked it up to pollen, wind etc. thought maybe my filters needed to be changed so I changed those out yesterday. We got a lot of rain today and my pool, namely the...

Hi there. I started using TFP last summer with my new pool and have learned so much. After having to drain to lower my CYA last summer, I am excited to get back at it. I have been adding chlorine etc all winter, and just did a baseline test. My PH was high (around 8) so I added 4 gallons of...

Hi everyone. I had my pool pumps off while I drained and refilled my pool over the weekend. I turned everything back on today and when I switch the valve to the skimmer the pressure drops and it can’t prime. What can I do to fix this???

Hi everyone! I am a new pool owner (well since October) and could use some help. When we opened our pool in October, I was given a Pentair test kit and told to monitor chlorine and PH weekly. Add more pucks or shock if chlorine was low, add muriatic to level PH. I have done that faithfully and...