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i am considering placing solar heater piping on my garage roof. i have some questions and would appreciate your insight/experience: height - we have a 1.15hp pump. will it really be able to send the water up 12-15 feet to the roof? i imagine almost full power will be needed. i dont expect there...

We have a 23 (lol) year old 200btu gas heater. She still works! I did replace pressure switch last year but that was it. We switched the pool to SWG 2 years ago. Last year at closing I found chunks of rust in the salt cell which is past the heater. I stuck an inspection camera into the heater...

my wife had a bunch of friends over and swimming all day. i heated the pool to 29 for the ocassion from 24. the rest of the chemistry was: FC 8.5 (i always keep it here because we have fairly poor circulation with only 2 jets) CC 0 CYA 60 TA 60 ph 7.8 after the swim i noticed water level was...

in ground steel wall vinyl liner pool, in ontario, canada we poured a new deck this year (pic attached) and kept the existing flagstone coping, with a foam expansion joint in between i torched down 1/4 to 1/2 inch of expansion joint all around to make room for caulking. my concern is, there...

how long do people keep skimmer socks in? do you reuse them, and if so, what is your cleaning process between uses? despite never failing oclt, no visible algae, my pool fills with dead algae every week. im wondering if the skimmer sock is seeding it, because if it gets an algae cell on it...

just wanted to share the results of our pool deck renovation! before and after photos included as the pool was not bonded, while everything was up, i took the opportunity to dig to the pool walls and connect them in a few points (it takea forever to drill through 2 plates of steel) as well as...

New in the last 2 days with no changes to pump, swg, filter settings. chlorine never below 7-8, and all i did was add a bit of cya.... im wondering if its from the wildfires? anyone else in canada or US north east experiencing this? Thanks!

is there a minimum or optimal % to run the hayward aquarite salt system? my pump is at 12 hours a day and salt cell at 15% and it keeps chlorine at 8... im interestes in maximizing cell longevity additionally, my cell current and instant salt are often reading 0 even though I know the cell is...

Hi everyone just got a hayward aquarite installed, t-15. added 240kg of salt to the pool, as that was less than specified on poolmath but exactly as specified on the bags and the swg manual. level is currently 3800...ok probably no big deal (edit - poolmath shows the same thing, nvm) my...

these were hand-me-downs from the previous owners...does anyone know what theyre for? thank you!

im trying to prep my pool for salt cell and lower the TA to 80ish. i was testing TA at 140 using the tftest kit, pH 7.8 added 2L of muriatic acid as prescribed by the app after running pump for 16 hours, pH is at 7.2 as per OTO test, TA is at 110-120 que pasa??

Hi All, I opened my pool in Toronto, Canada this weekend as the water level was high, and I wanted to get a start on controlling the green swamp that wouldve started to form pre-opening. water temp at 4 degrees celcius. brushing the walls there is green streaks forming. I put 5 pucks into...

hello, we are converting the pool to salt this season. its a 20k in ground vinyl pool, it will get a t-15 40k gallon cell with hayward aquarite. my questions: we have a heater, as well as a ladder into the pool and the general metal screws/bits that hold the skimmer/returns... the pool is not...

Hi All, We are going to redo our pool deck next week. Coping will be reset with fresh grout and then an expansion joint, and concrete poured for the rest of the deck which is currently interlock. Today, while I was getting liquid chlorine, the pool stors owner lady who is generally very ornery...

Hello, We have a 16 by 32 rectangular pool with 2 returns and 1 skimmer. See picture for location of the lines and the equipment pad. This year we were thinking of redoing the pool deck/coping because the pavers and are totally uneven/shifted all over the place. I see this as an opportunity...

I have a question. Is there any point to doing OCLT if you have tons of leaves/seeds falling into the pool...thats a known consumer of chlorine. I get tons of dead algae every day but I imagine if I slam, it wouldn't matter because new Crud is just going to fall in every day... TIA

Hello, I'm looking to buy a robot for our pool. After scouring the forum, I decided to go with dolphin and also due to general availability of maintenance parts in my region. I cannot decide between encore, explore e20, and nautillus cc they all have the correct specs for my pool and are...

This year I changed my hayward filter sand, before opening. There is a variflow multi-port valve on top. I have noticed several symptoms. 1) air is always sloshing around the filter 2) when I open the pump housing, there is instant loss of all water in the pump, air is sucked in and into the...

Hello, We just bought a house last year with a pool. We opened it this year, and with the help of this site, have learned much about maintaining it. I have some questions about the equipment behavior that I was hoping you guys could answer. Thank you in advance for your time. as a rundown...