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My pool is about 18 months old now, and is forming white spots that are concerning me. I have done some research on this, but there seem to be several possible causes so I'm looking for more experienced advice on how to combat this issue before it gets worse, and hopefully reverse it.

I have an in-ground pool with spa and gas heater and an automatic cover, about 10k gallons. In the spring, the weather warms up, then it seems to take the water forever to 'catch up' to the current weather. Is there any merit to the idea that a one-time heating of the pool could be beneficial...

Unfortunately, my young kids threw some mud into the spa, I didn't notice it for a good two weeks, and the mud has really worked its way into the plaster. I have brushed at it a lot, I even scrubbed at it a bit with some pumice stone, and the mud stains are very deeply set. It's almost like...

My plaster pool was completed in Nov 2014. Since then, it has been consuming a lot of acid. I was told this would be the case initially, but it does not seem to be slowing down much. It is a saltwater pool that is covered most of the time. I just tested and got: TA 130 (too high?) FC 5.5 CC...

I am having a new pool installed and a disaster has struck. We requested a "midnight blue" color and our PB used "tahoe blue" instead today. This might not be a huge problem except that it seems much lighter than the "tahoe blue" sample, and a very big difference from the "midnight blue" we...

So we're getting an autocover with our new pool build. We had picked out tile and coping, and today the tile guys were installing tile, and our GC brought over a couple of the travertine coping samples so we could decide which one we like best. After the GC left, the tile guys tell me that...

My gunite was shot yesterday. When I went out to water it this morning, I saw some cracks. I'm not sure if they're significant or not. This is the largest one, it's about 2' long in the deep end. Any advice welcome.

I am getting a rectangular pool built. They've dug, and recently installed rebar. When you look at the sides of the pool, they're not straight. In particular, the deep end side curves what looks like about 8" from one side to the other (it's a 15'x30' pool). If it wasn't dark out, I'd...

I upgraded the pump on my Intex 15' AGP, and noticed that there was a tremendous amount of suction pressure on the basket intake area. This seemed to imply that the pump was working very hard to pull water into the pump. Wondering why this might be, I disconnected the hose from the bottom of...

This model: http://www.amazon.com/Intex-56671EG-650 ... and+filter I noticed yesterday from inside that it sounded very loud all of a sudden. I backwashed, rinsed, checked to make sure there were no obvious blockages, etc, but none of that helped. Ideas on how to troubleshoot? It's so loud...

Otherwise mercury will accumulate in the pool. Is there any credibility to this?

I decided to "deep clean" my sand filter after partially clearing a seriously swampy pool (as I found in other threads - basically sticking a hose down in the sand and manually flushing it). An amazing amount of junk came out of the sand! Feeling victorious, I went to put the multiport valve...

I have a 15' Intex round pool with a sand filter. I opened the pool last Saturday, and my filter GFI had tripped a few weeks ago, and I'd dropped the ball on chlorine levels, and it was a terrible swamp. I mean terrible: clouds of solid algae swirling. Over the winter I use trichlor tablets...

I built an inexpensive DIY solar heater for my 15' above ground pool. We get cold night winds where I live that just chill the heck out of the pool water, so that even though it's warm during the day, the water is often pretty chilly. I modeled my heater after this...

Mainly posting so I don't chicken out when it comes time to cut my liner, with my wife breathing down my neck "Honey, are you sure this is going to work and you aren't going to ruin the pool you just spent all week getting in perfect condition??" My issue is that my plunger valve tends to work...

I've recently been through the shocking process and passing the OCLT for the past couple days. The pool looks great, finally. However, I should be past the shocking process now, and am targeting FC of 4 since my CYA is at 30. I can get this and hold it overnight just fine. However, when I...

By reading everything on here, I took my 15' Intex AGP from a festering green, dirty mess into a crystal clear, sparkling pool in about a week of fairly intensive study/work. Before that I was at a loss about what to do and how to do it. First I upgraded to the 2650 gph Intex sand filter...

I was pondering my Intex pump/filter system today, and it seems like, ideally, a skimmer would actually "skim" stuff off the surface of the water - I know I get tons of stuff on the surface of my pool (windy area, close to trees, lots of bugs), and not much if anything gets taken off the surface...

And... oops. The first instruction in the manual doesn't work. I'm supposed to put the intake part through the pool lining, and it's WAY too big to fit through the opening there, and clearly not intended for use on this pool. Am I screwed? I've read at least 20 posts about adapting Intex to...