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I'm using the aquapure 1400 and my tri-sensor adapter is actually working. I know... you're all shocked. But something else has gone wrong. My equipment has an additional water temp sensor that's wired into my Jandy control center. That sensor shorted and my aquapure doesn't turn on. After I...

Any tips on how to keep the suction-side PoolCleaner inside the pool? It keeps trying to leave. I've been using a Zodiac MX8. It requires nearly constant cleaning to maintain smooth operation and the cleaner itself is pretty restrictive on water flow. For me the MX8 has been more trouble than...

The answer is probably yes, but read on: My pool is now almost a year old and it's working fine. It was an owner-builder endeavor that went pretty well, but I've never been completely satisfied with the plumbing. The guy I hired to do the work wasn't great and it was clear his knowledge was...

I know I should totally search more, but I'm not finding much info on my issue. People seem to have problems keeping PH and TA down, but I need to raise TA and lower PH. I thought I was doing a pretty good job at keeping my pool balanced until I started seeing more and more scaling. I've...

I believe this is a check valve... and it has a cracked cover causing a slow leak. I'd like to find a rebuild kit, but I'm not sure who made it. Unfortunately, the PB put the plumbing for this valve under concrete decking leaving no easy way to replace the entire unit. I just have a 6" access...

I'm sure there is an easy answer to this... but for the life of me I'm not sure what to use. I'm trying to prevent the tiny grout cracks along the inside wall of my spillway from letting water through. Picture this: I have a flagstone spillway from my spa to the pool. The top of the spillway...

I have a flagstone spillway from the spa to the pool. When running the filter pump on a low speed it's not really enough flow to get the water going (there is a separate booster pump for this). Since it's all flagstone and grout, including flagstone around the waterline on the inside of the spa...

After a few months of working with my One Touch I have to say I really don't like it. I should've researched this one a bit more. I liked that it was small and simple, but didn't realize the amount I toggling between screens and menu items that is needed to do pretty simple things. Jandy...

Hi all, I'm a little worried about the story I'm getting from Jandy/Zodiac. I have a new aqualink RS install and right off the bat I started getting intermittent error codes (181 and 172 I think). Those codes indicate that the sensor is bad... according to the manual... since flow was clearly...

I was caught off guard by my CH levels. I didn't know I lived in an area with hard water and now my pool, just filled, has a CH around 1000. I need to check again, but I'm pretty sure it's the same coming out of the tap. Aside from draining and bringing in 1,000,000 bottles of arrowhead mountain...

I have a new 400K Jandy LXI heater and I'm not sure what type of "temperature rise over time" equates to "good" performance. Pool is about 22K gallons and I've turned it on for the first time this weekend. It seems to operate fine and is quieter than I thought it would be. Today I saw a rise in...

What is the material the plaster company uses to seal around return pipe where it enters a pool through gunite? I'm replacing a return fitting and I need to chip into that stuff. It's an off-white color if that helps. Thanks!

I'm a new pool owner... again... and going through initial start-up. I have 3 pumps on my pool. 1. Filter pump. 2. Spa booster pump for jets 3. Water feature booster. The filter and spa pumps are working quite well. My 1.5HP water feature pump is pretty noisy and it runs louder than the 3HP...

Just had my pool plastered today and I noticed the installers used the same return fittings for the vacuum suction line. It's one of those threaded fittings that is the right inside diameter for the vac-lock fitting. However, their fittings are inside slip connections into my 1/5" suction line...

I'm using a very hard quartzite flagstone for my pool decking and coping. There is plenty of info out there on how flagstone may fail over a short amount of time due to constant evaporation after coming into repeated contact with pool water. However, it seems that this problem has more to do the...

I think might have run into my first real problem on my OB adventure. My masonry contractor, who has worked on a lot of pools, installed the pool coping before the tile. Now the bottom of the skimmer mouth is about 9" below the underside of the coping. Is this elevation too far off to be...

I'm actually in Ventura County, but most of these companies would come up from LA or beyond. If you have experience with a company that does quality work with a PebbleTec like finish please send me a PM. Thanks much.

This is from my SoCal pool build thread, but I'm hoping to get a little more info quick since I'm meeting with my plumber tomorrow morning to go over any final changes. Gunite is next week. Please see the pic below. The pool as 4 returns and the spa has 2 for a total of 6 returns from the...

I'm well underway and before we spray cement I have a question or two. That I'll ask in a followup post. First some pool particulars and pics of the progress... - In-ground gunite pool with 18" raised bond beam to deck level along the back and a raised spa 18" above the deck. - Approx 672 sq...

Hi everyone. I think I'm headed for trouble. My pool spa design calls for a cascading flagstone spillway that must be about 14 linear feet along the top edge of the spa as it overlooks the pool. It'll cascade down steeply angled ledger flagstone for about 36" to the water level. I've spec'd out...

Sorry if this is a dumb question.... This is "scale", correct? I just bought a Taylor test kit that can measure calcium hardness. It looks like mine CH is around 625ppm. The local pool shop who has tested my water this year didn't feel I had a problem with CH. I also have a salt system and I...