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Opened the pool last week and there's a small leak at the top of my Hayward pump. I turned the white fitting at the top clockwise and that was actually loosening it (I think, it got much worse when I did that) so I switched to clockwise and that slowed the leak back down but it still leaks...

Need advice on replacement pump please. This season has been one thing after another and I'm ready to just throw money at the problem so it just works consistently, but hopefully not too much money. :p Current pump is a 1hp Hayward Super II, hooked to a Pentair Intellichlor and an Intermatic...

Hi all - pool co pulled the cover Friday and added chems and fired up the equipment. Within 10 minutes the pump switched off and they told me the breaker in our panel had gone bad so I needed to replace. I went out and fiddled with it after they left and ended up unplugging the intellichlor and...

Hi all, I use these 4' sections of hose to hook a manual vac head to my skimmer port (with a leaf catcher in between) as they came with my pool and have worked. I believe the sections of hose actually were from a suction cleaner of some sort, maybe a Kreepy Krawly, long since buried and gone...

Hi all - forgive me if I should keep this with my main renovation thread in the Under Construction forum, but since this was such a specific questions on a light, I thought this might be the place. PB returned the Pentair Intellibrite LED he was supposed to put in this weekend because it...

Hi everyone - starting a thread over here about the "project AFTER the project!" We're mid-reno on our pool, and will be DIYing a large pergola after our concrete stamped deck is poured. We built a pergola at our old house about 10 years ago, calling on every brother-in-law and spare relative we...

We are just beginning the remodel of our pool (our reno thread is in my signature) and one question I have is about reviving an abandoned cleaner line. I found a small capped line at my equipment pad, and we have a dead "return" in the pool. It is quite close to the next working return, so we...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/0 ... Bslider%2B Have you seen this story? The little boy is very lucky to be recovering after an entrapment in the main drain. I'm sure more details will come out as this goes through the courts, but I am surprised to hear that the drain cover on this pool...

This is not my pool but in our state. Bummer! http://kfor.com/2013/07/24/vandals-turn ... thousands/

Hello - DH was using the shop vac around the deck of the pool and dragged the extension cord into the water. Our outdoor plug is not a GFCI, but there is some sort of GFCI built into our electrical panel that tripped, so we reset and that outlet is working again. First I was most concerned about...

Hello - we are going to replace a 6 foot chain link fence with an 8 foot cedar privacy fence. I would like to replace our current locking "system" - i.e., a bike's combination chain lock - with a more professional, worry-free locking mechanism. I want to be able to open the gate from either...

Anyone harvest their backwash/waste water from a sand filter into a rain barrel for landscape usage? Does anyone have photos illustrating this type of set up? I've tried to search but haven't been successful. Thanks!

Hi, all! This is our second season with our 40-years-young IG gunite pool in Oklahoma City. When we purchased this house, we thought the pool would need a facelift in the next several years, and began to plan to save up for 5 years to accomplish the reno. Well, season two has started and our...

Hello, I'm in the final phases of clearing our rain-mudded pool. It is mostly clear (slight cloudiness to the water in the deep end) and I wanted to pass the OCLT test and call it done since we are having a pool party Saturday. Our CYA had been at 30 for part of the swamp session but I was...

Hello - I have been reading and mostly practicing BBB since we first bought our house in Dec 2011. Thank you so much for everyone who shares their knowledge and time on this board, it is really great! This year, we decided to keep our pool open over the winter (in OKC) and equipped it with a...

Hello all - I'm hoping you can help me with a diagnosis on our hot tub leak. We've got an in-ground, gunite hot tub circa 1975, maybe 500 gallons. The hot tub has almost drained itself entirely in less than 3 days, with no pumps on. There is a drain in the bottom - could it be pulling water out...