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Hey all! I noticed these spots in my only in my spa. I have a pool spa combo. Not to say they aren’t in my pool but I haven’t noticed them yet if they are. I have tried taking a chlorine tab and vigorously rubbing it on the stain but the stain persists. I’m wondering if anyone knows what these...

My water is pretty well balanced. I am noticing over the last few weeks that there are thousands of very small bugs in the water. Has anyone seen these before? What can I do about them?

I just had my pool remodeled. My pool has not worked the same since. In the first few days of running the pool after the remodel I got so much old plaster pieces and debris in my pump basket. I am worried there may be more debris lodged in the pool plumbing still. In one skimmer I am getting...

I I have a pool spa combo with a raypack heater, Hayward color changing led lights, and 2 pentair VS pumps. I would love to bring everything into one remote system with phone/app control. I see that both pentair and Jandy offer their own remote controllers. I was wondering if anyone had any...

I am in the process of remodeling my pool. I was reading up on 12V lLED lighting. I have 120V pool and spa light’s currently. I would love to replace both my 120V LED with the 12V LED. I understand that a transformer needs to be installed for this to work. I’m just wondering if I could get any...

I have a Raypack gas heater. It works great. I bought the house with it already here. Spa heats up in 20 min. No issues with it. I'd love to keep it running for as long as possible. I was wondering if anyone could share some things to check and maintenance tips. I tried YouTube but it only has...

I got my water tested at Leslies. On the sheet they gave me today it says Max dose of acid is 32oz at one time. It says to wait 4 hours for the next 32oz should it need more than 32. I'm just wondering how hard and fast that rule is? Ideally I'd like to be able to pour the needed amount at one...

I purchased the TF100 test kit. I feel like I have the basics down on testing chlorine. It's summer and I'm in Vegas. We have had some pretty decent monsoon activity. Not really anyone swimming though. My chlorine drop test came back 3.5 FC and 0.5 CC. According to the testing documents these...

I'm having a hard time figuring out why my pump keeps losing power. I ran new 10 guage wires from the pump to a 20 amp dual breaker. When I do test the connections at the pump with breaker on I get no reading. I found that if I use two separate 20amp breakers I will then get my 240 at the pump...

After I finished cleaning my filters and was putting the filter back together this metal band that sits at the top of the lower half of the filter housing fell off. Seems like it was just kind of glued on. Do I need to find a way to reattach this or can I just abandon this piece?

I broke the union nut on my pentiar pump. I decided to just build a new connection from pump output to filter input. Previosly the pipe was a straight with (2) 90 degree couplers. In reading about pool plumbing I saw that hard 90 degrees couplers shouldnt be used. Instead to use the 45 degree...

Looks like I tightened the Union nut to far last time around. As the pump turned on today water was spaying out from a split in the union nut. I would ideally like to buy a spiit nut replacement. Was wondering though how I find the correct size? I see part numbers on my Google searches but...

I came home from an extended vacation to find my keypad with a blank display and filthy pool due to pump not running. I am tying to troubleshoot the device to find out what part is not working as opposed to buying a new pump. I reset all the breakers. I apologize in advance for my lack of...

I have a pool spa combo. Pool jets and spa jets are on separate pumps. Spa has 4 jets. One of the jets bubbles a lot and displaces water when the blower is on. I tried covering one of the other jets in the spa and the jet that bubbles over calms down and acts normally. My assumption is that the...

I can't figure out what's going on here. I bought a new bottom manifold as I thought maybe the old one got warped. For some reason when I try to seat the manifold one side seats flush but not the other side. The arms seems to extend enough so that it all won't seat correct. Am I doing something...

I'm having trouble understanding which are the correct bearings for the motor on my Pentair Intellflo VSP model 011028 pump. Where can I the correct size bearings and is there a suggested retailer or manufacturer?

I recently bought a house with pool. Still learning all the equipment. I started running the pump and SWG 24/7 for summer. It may have been too much for the SWG or perhaps its just coincidental timing. The lights on the SWG are flashing and the LCD screen is glitching. (See Video) Video of SWG...

There is a solid metal line coming out of the ground right next to the gas line for the pool heater. So that makes me think it has something to with the gas line plumbing. The line also has that greenish battery acid stuff at the base where the line meets the earth. So does that mean it's an...

I was reading in the forum that a good way to check for blockage would be to compare the filter pressure as you allow each intake suction flow one at a time. I have two skimmers and one pool drain and one spa drain. So I have pressure of 16 on all individual suctions except for the spa. The spa...

I have a Hayward Swim Pure Plus SWG that came with the house I just bought. The salt cell needed replacing. I replaced the salt cell and added the appropriate amount of salt. When switching the SWG from the OFF position to Auto, the SWG seems to be working correctly. I get Cell Voltage readings...

I have an Intermatic T30004R Timer that is not being used by anything currently. I was made aware via this forum that I should have my SWG connected to a timer. I just wanted to make sure that I am doing this correctly. In reading some information online, I am understanding that I am going to...

I just emptied and refilled my pool. The salt cell has been busted ever since I bought the house 6 months ago. I just purchased a new salt cell and finally got the pool balanced and salt added. I turned on the salt generator for the first time. It looks like it's working fine. However when the...

I have an inground pool/spa combo. I had an obstruction in one of my spa jets. In trying to figure out how to remove the jet to clear the obstruction, I removed the plate shown in the photo. It was just glued in. I need to reattach the plate now. Just wondering what adhesive I need to use...

I have one jet that no water comes out of. I've tried to snake it out but the snake will only go about a foot in before it stops. No amount of reasonable force will move the snake any further. So question 1. Is is possible that the pipe is perhaps collapsed? Question 2. Is it possible to remove...

I was having an issue with low suction. I did a complete rebuild on my Pentair 3 HP Variable Speed Pump. Replaced the internal bearings. Bought the seal kit and replaced all O Rings and the shaft seals. Thoroughly cleaned out the cartridge filters. Replaced the O rings at the suction side of the...

I decided to replace my shaft seals on my Pentair 3 HP Intellflo Pool Pump. I bought the gasket kit to replace all gaskets. While I was taking apart the pump this seal fell out and I'm not sure where it went. Also I am concerned that since the gasket kit didn't come with a new one I bought the...

I have the Hayward ColorLogic LED light in both my pool and spa. The spa one started letting in water and kept popping the breaker. I took the light apart and dried it out, cleaned the gasket and put it back together. The gasket had algae on and it was slightly warped. It worked great for almost...

I recently bought a house with pool and spa. The old owner told me that when he runs the jacuzzi, he sets the variable speed pump to 2350 RPM. I'd like to set it to it's max speed as the higher pressure feels great! The same pump is piped to release water to one outlet at the spa and 4 outlets...

I pulled the light out of my spa as it was causing my breaker to trip. The gasket was pretty beat up. I did clean it up but Id love to just buy a new one. Perhaps even a new plastic housing. I couldn't find anything on google. Can anyone point me in the right direction to purchase a new gasket...

I had an issue where my breaker would trip whenever I turned on the LED pool/spa light. I drained the spa and took the light apart. Sure enough there was light moisture inside the light. There is a gasket that protects the actual light but should there also be one that sits up against the pool...