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Every year upon opening my pool, I usually have to add around 200 pounds of salt and 52 ounces of CYA. I am assuming I am loosing this all due to dilution over the winter months as we get plenty of rain year around here. My question is how can I only loose 52 ounces of CYA, when I am loosing 200...

So I have always had this rock under the liner when it was replaced five years ago. I was hoping it would never poke though, but it did today. So I patched it with some left over vinyl from the instal. Only problem. The sun has faded the liner a good bit in the last five years. Didn’t realize...

When I bought my house 5 years ago and knew nothing about pools and also recovering from a car wreck, we hired a company to do some maintenance and clean the green pool we just bought. Looking back these guys really had no idea what they were doing. My Hayward s244s sand filter has always...

Got several of these to help collect water bottle samples for tests. Works pretty great for $2.00! https://www.harborfreight.com/36-in-pickup-and-reach-tool-61413.html

CYA in a sock…. In a Ryobi pool vac… CYA took all day to dissolve, for some reason tried this to speed it along. Pool vac has an auto shutoff apparently, but it did seem to help.

I decided to upgrade the Dual speakers at my gazebo. Decided to up some of these guys over a pair of Atriums. KHO-7. They don’t sound the best out of the box, but burn them in for 8-10 hours and they start to sound nice. Very power hungry. They want an amp that is at least 75watts at 8ohms. Most...

Earlier this month we left for vacation for a week. I had my father in law come by and skim the pool every day, but I didn’t show him how to use the robot. When I left the FC was 8 and my CYA was 60. I added a pound of Cal-Hypo as I was heading out the door and that should have brought the FC up...

So yeah I got him out and he seemed happy about that. Vacuumed out the poop. I know that turtles and tortoises carry salmonella and have a lot of it in there poop. Question is will the chlorine be enough to kill it or should I super chlorinate it? I know some animals like raccoons carry very bad...

I thought I would post my impressions of the Instapark betta and my experience with it. The beta does an excellent job cleaning the pool, it is the only skimmer I found on the market that has a very large container for collecting debris. I get a lot of pineneedles in my pool and this feature was...

I have a GE GFCI circuit breaker that powers my pump and SWG. It will trip if I run the pump too low, or when I adjust the valve down going to my main pool drain. It won’t trip if I run the pump above 1400 RPM or if I have the main drain and the skimmer set wide open. What could cause this to...

I added 12oz of 31.45% of Muriatic acid. This is after letting my TA drift down to 70 and my PH has stayed at 7.6 ever since and I have a SWG. I’ll see how long I have to go before I have to add anymore. Coincidentally, this is the one thing that Trouble free pool teaches about water chemistry...

So I’m at a bit of a loss on how to deal with this reoccurring issue. When I had my liner changed out two years ago all my water drained below the pool steps overnight the day we filled up the pool for the first time. The installer had to mess around with the gasket and added a bunch of silicone...

This is a continuation from another thread I don’t want to hijack.

The only hangers I kept seeing for these pool mats were overpriced and made from PVC. I made some out of steel for less then $25.00 each. Simply cut the steel pipes to the appropriate length leaving enough room to secure the pipe into the hinge and to secure it at the other end. Measure twice...

So I somehow just managed to shear off this pressure relief valve. I believe it’s Hayward part # SX200G. It’s for a Hayward s244s sand filter. I’ve ordered more on Amazon, but won’t arrive until Saturday. Anything I can use as a quick replacement? I’m going to try and glue it back together for a...

I’m wondering if this is normal behavior. I have a Hayward aqua rite 900. At the end of last summer I replaced the single speed pump with a new VS pump. Previously both the pump and the salt water generator were wired to the timer and so would turn on and off simultaneously. This winter I...

Amazon has these for $12.00 right now. Very good quality for the price. https://www.amazon.com/Plano-3-Tray-Metallic-Premium-Storage/dp/B00FPQRJWQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Dark+Green+Metallic%2F+Off+White+%2C+Three-Tray&qid=1616256105&sr=8-3

I discovered this winter that that when I run my new Pentair superflo VST below 1400RPM (I was trying to run it at 1200rpm 24/7 for the winter) the electrical breaker will always trip at some point during the day. Obviously I am not ever planning on running it below 1400RPM now, but what would...

My old single speed pump developed a serious leek and needed to be replaced. We decided to go with the Pentair superflo VST. We also have a Hayward Hayward aqua rite 900 saltwater system. My question involves the electrical hook up. The installer simply hooked the pump up using the existing...

Just thought I would post to share my recent experience with Maytronics. I have a dolphin nautilus CC plus robot which works great at cleaning the pool we bought it from Amazon and have had it right around a year now. I never bothered registering it or anything. The other day I put the robot in...

Hello, first post. I am relatively new to owning a pool, we bought our house with a pool in July of last year. The pool was a mess, needed a new liner and new steps because the old fiberglass steps were busted and leaking and the water was green when we bought it. We also upgraded it to a salt...