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I have never had an algae problem like I have had this summer. I finally killed the algae but now I need to vacuum up the dead stuff. I don't know anything about manual pool vacuums so I've been looking on Amazon. There are suction side and pressure side vacuums and don't know which one to get...

I read that in order to kill algae you have to put in enough chlorine to bring the FC up to 30 - 50 ppm. I put in 9 gallons of Home Depot's 10% chlorine and that only brought it up to 15 ppm. So I went to Pinch a Penny and got 5 gallons of of their 12% chlorine and that pushed it over the edge...

I recently replaced the grey plastic basket in my pool pump (Hayward) with a white plastic no-name basket that floats. I used to just drop the basket in after cleaning and it sank to the bottom and seated so I knew it lined up with the infloe and could easily screw the pump top back on. When I...

Last week the pressure on my filter was high so I changed out the filter for a new one and the problem was solved. Today I checked the pump and it's high again. If it's the filter, I can't clean it until the weekend with our temps in the 20s all week. I'm wondering what will happen if I take the...