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I have everything running and I see a little air in the top of my pump basket so I shut off the skimmers to first test if it was coming through the skimmer lines or the main line. Water flow stops completely. I had fine water flow when I started everything a few days ago. I actually primed it...

I bought a house a couple of years ago with an old inground pool and I have been replacing the old equipment with new equipment as I can. The old pump crapped out at the end of the season last year and I was able to get a new, bigger one for free from a family friend. The issue is the new...

So before I found this board I was trying to open a pool that was sitting for two-three years before I bought the house and I enlisted the help of my bio-chemist brother to see what I could use to eliminate the green water I had. He suggested copper sulfate as it is pretty easy to get and...

Hmm, just occured to me that none of my returns have eyeballs. Is this negativly effecting my filtration system by not giving it enough back pressure?

Ok, bought a house with a pool, working on turning it from black water to a sparkling oasis in the desert of Detroit. I've been rocking out the chlorine for a few days and I can now clearly see the bottom of the shallow end and vaugely see the bottom of the deep end. As stuff is dying sediment...

Ok, so I figured out I have a leak in my pool somewhere, I was losin between 350-650 gallons of water every 12-24 hours depending on when I was running my pump and how I was pulling the water in. I let the water run out until it stopped over the long weekend and it stopped right below the...

I would like to start off by calling myself a bone head. So I bought a house with an inground pool having never owned a pool before. Well, I opened it last weekend unplugging the skimmers and filling with water and chlorinating the Crud out of it. It has gone from green to cloudy blue/white...

I bought a house in November in Detroit that had an inground all concrete pool. Having never owned a pool before I was stoked to find this site and all the good advice. So far I have figured out how to open it up and am in the process of shocking the ever living Crud out of it and clear up the...