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Ordinarily, when opening the pool, I manually vacuum all the silt and debris to waste and get the pool clean and balanced before using the robot. It's a miserable job that takes hours, so this year I decided (because I'm an idiot, a lazy idiot) not to do the usual manual vacuuming when opening...

First off, at the risk (certainty!) of incurring the wrath of the TFP, my pool is dosed with chlorine pucks rather than liquid chlorine or SWG or whatever - it's just how it's done here in Europe - particularly in older pools - and haven't generally had any issues. For the first time in a while...

Long story, but we had a "pool guy" open up this year as he was coming out here anyway and I thought it'd save me some work. It didn't. I've now got the pool clean and water clear and sparkly. After shocking, the chlorine level fell back to 2.0ppm and for a day or two I had free chlorine of...

Just opened up for the second season since refurb, and although everything still looks good, I noticed a pile of ants and woodlice on the floor of the pool in one corner. Looking at that corner, it looks like they've somehow got under the copings and are emerging through a gap they've opened up...

So not only did the oddball installer guy not fit the pressure gauge to our new Triton TR60 filter (per my previous thread), but I don't think he backwashed it initially either (and a fair amount of debris was evidently in the pipes and went into the filter) and now (a week after the install)...

So we finally got the pool shed fixed up (was supposed to be part of last year's liner change and pool area refurb) and we had a guy - recommended by builder - come and install the new pump and filter. The filter is a 24" Pentair Triton TR60. The guy has installed it without a pressure gauge...

I went ahead and bought a Dolphin robot, SX20 (I think it's the same as the S100 or E20). This model only has one roller, at the front, and around the other three sides of its underside it has soft rubber "skirts" presumably to contain and direct the debris it's sucking up. I also got the...

So per the title, apologies in advance for yet another pool cleaner robot thread - I know there's been a few lately! I've decided to get a pool cleaner robot. The old suction cleaner I had doesn't work any longer, and it had to be plugged into the only skimmer line we have, which was never...

Last year we finally got around to replacing the liner and pool surround of our pool (you can see it in the under construction forum). We had planned to update the pump and filter as part of that project, but ran out of time and money last year - so we're going to deal with it now. The pool is...

Per my other thread, we just had our liner replaced which also meant new faceplates and fittings including a new main drain of a different design to the old one. Apparently they now need to be "anti vortex". Anyway, we have a Zodiac Barracuda Super G "robot" vacuum cleaner (plugs into the...

Don't suppose anyone knows of a business that stocks spares for Rocky's reels and ships internationally? We have one that we'd like to keep in service but it needs some spares, unfortunately they're no longer sold in the UK and the only business I can find so far that does ship to the UK is in...

I went to start up the pump and found this settled grit on the bottom of the pump basket chamber. I cleaned it out before starting the pump, but is this likely to have damaged the pump? - it seemed noisier than ever last season (I thought bearings, but info on this forum makes me wonder about...

Hello folks, haven't posted here in a while, good to be back! Our pool came with the house and was already very old and a bit dilapidated when we moved in 10 years ago! I believe it's exactly as originally built in 1987 - including the vinyl liner. With some help I've managed to keep it ticking...

Our backwash/waste pipework is old and leaking but I'm not sure what to replace it with. It's currently entirely comprised of the same 1.5" white ABS pipe used for all the pool plumbing, and runs from the pool shed approximately *200 feet* to the drain (with plenty of old pipe weld joins!). It's...

So we had our friends’ girls in the pool today and somehow the plastic grille over the main drain has got broken up - sort of shattered - Heaven knows what they were doing in there! - with one large piece having dropped into the hole underneath and so far one small piece turning up in the pump...

I've just done the spring pool opening process, and actually it was in good shape this year (no green water or green stuff round the edges this year!). Previously (having first netted out any larger debris and vacuumed smaller settled debris to waste) I've added shock chlorine to the water...

We inherited an ageing pool that we're trying to keep going for a little while longer until we can afford to update it. I managed to fix a couple of leaks in the waste line by cutting out old bits of pipe and gluing in the new sections, and that worked fine. The latest leak though, is from a...

We have a 28' x 14' inground pool; the skimmer has a circular basket that fits in it with a circular floating "collar" weir (Certikin HD105). Sometimes we're finding that the floating weir has risen so that water isn't making it over the weir and the skimmer is sucking air and the pump...