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I would have posted in the other guy's de into sand filter thread but I think i remember this forum being one that likes new threads for different situations and mine's a bit different than his SWG didn't work this year and have been doing bleach, forgot for a couple days and it got green...

Seam is about 8 inches up from ground and looks like the leak could be somewhere in a 3ish foot part of it. Would caulk or silicone do anything? anything else that may work? I've already told the kids there will be a pool somehow this summer but even $400 for another one of these is going to...

It's been rainy and/or cold (like 60s!) for the last week and a half and brought our water temp down to 70, no one was interested in swimming or maintenance. It left a bunch of junk at the bottom but water was perfectly clear until wife decided couple days ago to brush everything down before...

A little over a month into our second season with an intex sand filter. It's never been open since new. My wife backwashed it yesterday in to the dog's little pool, why I don't know and don't really care to know but there was a bunch of sand there. Just a regular ~10" high plastic kiddie pool...

Last year I used a newer model intex swg on my 18' summer escapes and had to run it 6 hours a day to keep my fc around 3-5. Had planned since last year and still really wanting to get the 16x32 intex this year and put a skimmer in it but money is tight. If it does happen may be later on in the...

My youngest (7yrs) I guess brought this home from school today the fourth day of school this year, she's asleep already & I just saw it. It says "draw pictureS" She thought one would suffice. I think the brown spots at the bottom underneath the vertical beams must be the wood feet I made this year.

Ecosaver 20 panel from Amazon. 20'x2.5' 50 square feet. $140 + ship. I bought one of these knowing I'd need more than one, just to try it out and see what it would do. I posted about this before I bought it and heard I may need 2 or 3. I'm finding out with some measurements and math I'd actually...

I have 2 tubes a 1.5" id corrugated and a 0.75" id rubber going over the rail of my summer escapes pool for my dedicated pump solar heat l just set up. (Want new 16x32 intex next year, didn't want to cut liner of this perfectly good one, didn't want to tap into filter pump swg system). The tubes...

I just got my solar panel from amazon yesterday and hooked it up to its own dedicated pump with some cheap non-cuffed hoses I had from before. They leak just exactly like they used to. Clamping them tighter seems to make them leak faster! I've tried teflon tape with zero luck. Had a lot better...

I'm about to buy the 2x20 solar panels on amazon. I have this pump in my garage doing nothing it takes the smaller cartridge filter (I'm not putting filter in) could I run small garden hose size tubing to inlet of this pump and outlet of the panels and run the tubes over the top of the agp rail...

I was born in 77 and being a little kid in the 80s the best I ever had was a rigid plastic wall maybe 10 or 12 foot circle like 2 feet deep. (It rolled up and came with a junky water powered vac like my bro's new intex) Was stuff like 18 foot circle pools that were 4 feet deep available then...

My pool only gets sun after 2pm and this year with a cold week of the 4th + some rains there's only been a few times its been comfortable enough for grown-ups to jump right in without a bit of a cold shock at first. My brother has a 12' solar cover from an old pool, would this float in mine? or...

I wish I'd have thought of this earlier and borrowed one from work. We have a movie the kids and their friend really want to see tonight but it's going to be inside like normal. Any of you all do this? We went on a disney cruise earlier this year and the kids watched movies on a jumbotron in...

I've been thinking of building a fountain with a foot of 1" pvc like I've seen posted. If I was to drill 12 or so fountain holes and also 12 LED holes directly behind them and glue some LEDs in, would it actually light up the water coming out at night? Anyone know what the brightest/cheapest...

I see all kinds of adapters for summer escapes skimmers to allow you to clamp a hose to instead of having the stock pump hanging so you can use a sand filter but all these adapters are for the skimmers that came with a 1200gph or less pump. Like...

I have an 18' summer escapes vinyl pool. The connections to its return and skimmer accept 1.5" corrugated tube that has a non-corrugated smooth section on the ends that you put a clamp on. This smooth part is molded right into the tubing. like this: http://www.qualityinflatables.com/summe ...

I have an 18' summer escapes pool that has the skimmer built in to the side and the 1500gph pump. I recently converted over to an intex sand filter/pump and it doesn't seem to skim the surface as well this year as it used to. The intex pump seems slightly more powerful than the old pump, I...

18' summer escapes pool. Been set up for 3 weeks, added an intex swcg and intex 14" sand filter last weekend. Water tests ok for everything at the pool store, seems perfectly clean except a bit cloudy. shining a bright flashlight into it at night it really seems like it's just full of bubbles...

It's the cheapest model filter/pump and a separate intex salt system. I just got both rigged up temporarily (sitting on some big rocks and landscaping stones) to an 18' metal frame summer escapes pool today. I'd like to put the filter/pump + salt system in my shed with lines running on the...