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Not that I'm slow at doing things, but when everything here froze in 2021, my pool was damaged. Several fittings broke, several Jandy Neverlube valves cracked, the chlorinator broke, and basically the pool was spurting like a fountain when the power went out at 0 degrees outside at 2am, so by...

I'm in process of reparing my swg that chlorinates the pool. I'm also leaving town Sunday for a week. In case I don't get the system fixed is there a temporary fix for chlorinating the pool for a week? I don't have a chlorinator any more, it got destroyed in the big freeze two years ago and I...

Hi, it's me again with my old Goldline swg. I just repaired my cell and re-installed it 2 weeks ago. The repair appeared successful. I replaced the thermistor in the cell (Salt Pool Store had it sent from the mfr in Australia) and it now reads the temp correctly. But now, the whole system is...

I have an Aquarite Chlorine Generator, 20 years old (R 1.32) with 11,000 gallon pool. The cell is two years old. When I started up the system about a month ago, it was saying "Cold". I thought it was normal, since water temp was in the low 60s. And since then the water has hovered in the 60s to...

Hayward/Goldline/Aquarite salt system 11000 gallon pool I have a green pool virtually overnight. I checked the system, and it's showing "Inspect Cell", "Check Salt", and no generation. I cannot get the Inspect Cell to go off, even after repeatedly holding down the diagnostic button for 5-10...

My pool is getting older (25 years) and things are falling off! Specifically I have two areas coming detached from the pool: 1. A section of 3 or so bricks have come loose from around the pool. These are the bullnose brocks around the edge, at deck level above the waterline. 2. Small 1"...

Well, I think my cleaner is pretty shot. It still works, but the hose and fittings are disintegrating. I don't know if being frozen in the pool for a week or just age is getting to it, but the hose has many leaks and the swivels disintegrate when you handle them. My question for the group is...

Ok, more trouble recovering from my freeze. I'm working to get the pool water back, and so I vacuumed the pool and backwashed several times yesterday. Today, I noticed water streaming out of the backwash line even though I have been in Filter Position all day. It's not gushing like it does...

I've finally gotten the parts and am home and repairing my pool that froze last month. As you can imagine, now that it's in the 70s and 80s here the pool is very very green, like a stagnant pond. Any special things I need to do to recover it? Should I drain it and start over? I've never...

I got my pump running after the freeze, and then a plug of some sort push out of the heater, at the outlet side, and water gushes out of a hole about 1-1/2". So I looked at it, and it's a plug of sorts with 2 o-rings, with a threaded nut holding it in. And the nut broke with the freeze. I'm...

Like many others, when our power went out lat week the pool froze hard (I couldn't break the ice with a broom handle, it looked about 2 inches thick). It did it quickly in the middle of the night at -2 degrees, so by the time I found it was out and checked the pump, the lid was pushed off and...

In this time of Covid, lots of people are looking for ways to sanitize their houses and businesses. One of my friends has a machine that makes "electrylyzed water" that is a disinfectant that he's using to spray around his classroom with a sprayer. I did a little research and this thing uses...

I decided to keep my old Polaris 360 and just fix a few things. It was just sitting on the bottom mostly, then would occassionally move a bit, then sit more. So we replaced the bearings and the tires. Then I put it back in the pool. Now it seems to move much better, but it's floating most of...

I need to replace my T-15 cell. a Hayward cell is lust under $600 online, while I see generics in the $270-$400 range. Any recommendations on generics, or is Hayward worth the extra $$? And any recommended sources?

It's early in the season, but I'm already seeing algae. Water temp has been hoverning around 60, up a bit and down a bit. So I started up the salt system and have been trying to get it going. Not working. So here's what I'm seeing: 11,000 gal pool with Aquarite salt system, T-15. 1. Water...

I'm on by third Polaris 360 in 25 years, so they've been pretty good to me. I do seem to have problems regularly with them not going, or floating to the top, or generally just getting stuck for a while. Right now, this one doesn't want to go (But will if I take it out and spin the wheels a bit...

I purchased a FAS-DPD test kit (Taylor) last summer and used it through the warm weather and things were fine. For the winter, I've been doing quick tests with strips. So today I decided I should use the better kit and test everything. When I did the DPD test for Cholrine, the sample...

I have an Aqua Rite system that I've had for about 10 years. Last year I replaced the cell and replaced a defective display board. The system functioned well for the last 3 months of last season, and I've had it on about 2 months this season. About 3 days ago I noticed chlorine was low...

I noticed something interesting today. My pool temp has been vacilitating between the 50s and 60s. So I left the salt system on. Today the water temp is 54 f. So I decided to get in the hot tub, which is plumbed as part of the pool and actually the water goes into the hot tub, spills over a...

Just a quick post of my experiences with different salt reading media. I have a Aquarite Sale system. The water temp is fluctuating between 68 and 54 over the last few days, so the system is still on at about 20% cycle (and even at 54 egress the system says it's generating. I expected it...

My pool is 23 years old, and has held up pretty well. A couple of things need fixing that I need advice about: 1. small tiles around the water line are falling out. these are 1-1/2 x 1/14 tiles set in some sort of grout. some are above the water line but some are below. I have them all...

The display is out on my salt generator. I'm getting by just testing the water and managing it externally, but I guess I really should fix it. I don't see a model number on the unit, but I have seen things referring to the software rev on the main board, like "if version is 1.5 or lower, ..."...

I have a hayward 400,000 btu gas heater. Over the last year or so I've noticed that the keypad is being eaten up by the sun. about three months ago it looked terrible and the digits were hard to see, but it still worked and all the indicators for mode, spa, pool were working. today, I noticed...

I have a relatively new T15 cell on my Aquarite system. I've been told it turns itself off with water temp below 60. I kept the old dead cell, and was told I could put the old cell inline during winter and turn the system off to extend the life of the new cell. Then I'd just use tabs in a...

My Aquarite salt system's display isn't displaying properly. Looks like a typical burned out LCD display, where you see black lines here and there but nothing readable. I'll need to see about fixing that if I can get the parts. But right now I need a way to test salt. I'm using a little hth...

My 4.5 year old sand filter split yesterday. It's a crack about 2 inches long just below the filter, on the seam. Can I fix this? And if so, what's the best way (I've heard epoxy mentioned, and if it's fiberglass can I just glass over the crack?)? I don't think it's ever been run over about...