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My wife has been managing a slam on the pool and hot tub. She knows what she's doing with testing and adding chlorine. Over the past few days, she's been testing chlorine multiple times a day and adding as needed, but we've been having trouble getting through the slam. Over the past 24 hours...

Hi everyone, Opened up the pool this week and surprised by some of the issues I'm having. For this post, I'll start with my plaster. On my stairs down to the pool, a few of them started losing their plaster. Before and after pics attached plus how much my vac picked up on a partial pass. I...

Have an Aquavac 650 that has kept our pool sparkling in between brush downs and when I plugged it in for the first time this year, it won't work. Just stays flashing the blue light on the power supply. I went through the troubleshooting manual and tried the full factory reset, checking the...

Last year was the first year we didn't use our pool builder to close the pool. I followed everyone's advice here and this is the first year after opening it where I didn't have any additional cracked tiles, no new scale, and my water parameters need only a very slight adjustment, but is...

Hi everyone! My pool company has been trying to find the paramount winterization kit for my auto fill for weeks and having no luck. The various places that show it available online do not have it. I've also looked online, eBay, and called around to various local and not local shops. Anyone in...

Have a new company helping with the close this year. It's a little bit of a hybrid though as I drained the water and they are blowing out the lines and closing some of the equipment. I just ran out of time this year to figure out how to do everything. After reading up on here, I thought I had...

Hi Everyone, Getting ready to close the pool and started reading up on some threads and I noticed someone mention that a lot of people don't even put the cover on. Is there a general consensus on this? Is it ok to do? Are there any major issues by leaving it off? Thanks. Bobby

Hi everyone, Was looking at my SWG diagnostics today and it's looking a little strange showing instant salt at 370 and cell current at 1.84 which are much lower than where they normally are. I'm attaching current diagnostics and one I took a few weeks ago which is what I've come to expect all...

Hi! Tested my water this morning and things seem a little off and wanted to make sure I'm getting things straight before I'm out of town for a week. Current test: FC - 19.5! Was 14 five days ago and 12 two weeks ago and have an SWG. CC -.5 pH - 7.8 TA - 100 CH - 375, but was 375 before I...

Hi everyone! Trying to work on many issues in my pool one at a time. I just finished a SLAM today and working on getting my water chemistry right and need to set my salt cell properly. Here are my water parameters: FCL - 22 CC - .5 pH- 8.2 CH - 425 TA - 180 CYA - 50 Salt - 3400 I already...

Hi everyone! This is more curiosity than an issue I'm trying to solve. I'm getting close to exiting my SLAM and my insomnia has come in handy to stay on my chlorine levels through the night. I've noticed that as I approach the end of the SLAM, my chlorine levels tend to rise through the night...

Hi everyone! Started a SLAM a couple of days ago because I had CYA and FC levels that I could not maintain. Water has been completely clear, but I did notice a few growing algae blooms around the pool that are hard to get off of the plaster. Now that I'm a couple of days into the SLAM, I've...

Hi everyone, We came out of winter pretty rough (a lot of scale, these tiles in the attached pictures, and a host of other issues I'm trying to tackle one by one). Any thoughts on what would cause this issue with pool tiles? I have about 6-8 tiles that are like this spread around the pool...

Hi Everyone, Have been having one issue after another with my spa heater. A couple of months ago, I got some great advice from everyone here and finally got my spa heater running (found someone to clean the heat exchanger and replaced the temp limit switch, adjust the gas pressure). Everything...

Hi Everyone, Looking for a second opinion on an issue we are having with our spa heater. We built our house a couple of years ago and have a large pool and large spa. The spa is around 2500 gallons and is used year round in a cold weather environment in northern Ohio (my wife is nuts). This...