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Had an IC60 installed about 2 months ago after 10+ years of using just bleach. VS pump runs for 12 hours at 1750 rpm. I started at 2%/20% (lowest setting) but bumped it up to 4%/40% since the water temp and bather load was higher and was noticing FC getting below 4ppm. The pool looks great and...

Our pool is 11 years old and hauling bleach is now a pain and getting expensive enough for me to want to upgrade to a SWG. The pool is about 16-16.5k gallons and has the EasyTouch with the wireless card for the remote. Our pool is almost 100% in the shade to the point where I am still heating it...

I am getting the pool in shape for the Summer and wanted some input. During our Snowpocalypse around Valentine's Day we lost water for 5 days. Thankfully, the pool's freeze protection ran nonstop for a week and we never lost power. My multiport does seem to have some issue in that when I run the...

Ugh... Over the winter, we somehow destroyed part of the wall fitting for our legend cleaner. The plastic rim that sits outside the hole has ripped off and now there is nothing to grip to rotate it out. Any idea about a tool that can be inserted into the fitting that can expand, almost like...

So I vacuumed what I thought were leaves but there were many unseen twigs that have now clogged up my skimmer line. I have two skimmers and the flow to the far one (where the clog is) is greatly reduced. I tried using a shop vac with the pump off but just pulled out the leaves that were above...

So I had a priming issue and ended up using the spa suction to jump start the prime. This worked but when I heated up the spa last night, I realized that the spa overflows were going full blast which is wrong. I manually activated the actuator and it seemed to work at that point. Woke up this...

So our pool opened for the first time on Easter Weekend and I spent the first month brushing 2x daily and not running the Legend pressure side cleaner as instructed by the PB and Wet Edge Tech whose subcontractor did the plaster. I noticed a few spots that were too blue-ish-white in the spa and...

We filled our pool Easter Weekend for the first time ever and ran the pump at about 1800 rpms for about 12 hours a day for the first month. This amounted to about 1000w per hour and our electricity bill wasn't that bad (we pay about $.116 per kWh). After that first month, I started using the...

So the pool has looked awesome this month. Sparkling water, easy maintenance, pure joy. We had a party last night with a ton of kids and adults and I expected to be dealing with increasing the FC level significantly to deal with the swimmer load. We also had about 1.5-2" of rain in the wee...

From this morning: FC 18 CC .5 TA 90 CH 190 CYA 50 The construction of our pool has placed a ton of stress on a very large post oak in our backyard. To try and keep the tree alive, I hired a company to use an air spade (high pressure nozzle) to fluff up the compacted soil in the root zone...

Had pool school Wednesday but we didn't go over what do to if you lose prime. Last night, I opened the pump ring to clean out the leaf basket when the pump was off and all the water in the suction side drained back into the pool. I filled the basket up with water, reattached the ring and ran...

So the plaster (Wet Edge Technologies Satin finish Midnight Sea) was completed Tuesday, they came back to acid wash on Wednesday and began filling. It was filled by Thursday night before we went to bed. Yesterday, the PB sent his guy around to start up the system. Pool school isn't for...

Hey all. I gave the details on how we have come to have a completely wrecked back yard in the Introduce Yourself board but wanted to post some pics here of our cozy freeform inground pool and spa build in Austin near Circle C. The first plan we are shown is this one, which we loved. The only...

Hey all. On the day last summer that a landscape architect was coming to the house to deliver my wife and me a master plan for the backyard that would deal with the shade and our two standard poodles who want nothing more in life than to kill every squirrel that enters their yard, I believe it...

So we are basically down to two builders (Cody and Ocean Quest) and are now trying to pick through their bids to find out which are the real contrasts between the bids and which are differences without distinction. If a few TFP's ITB folks could give me the benefit of their opinion, I'd really...

My wife and I went from planning a backyard landscape with maybe a water feature, to building an inground pool. Aren't torrid summers great for the PBs around the country? I had a pool growing up and my mom currently has one that is 15 years old. Both are pearl plaster with tab chlorination...