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Opening my pool late as always, is it actually late or just on time if it is the same time every year? It seems we go from a pile of snow to 70 in a weeks time so I never get my pool open when the water is still nice and clear and cold and this year is no different. We pulled the cover off and...

I have a new Raypak heater model 264. It worked when installed last fall. Today when I went to fire it up for the first time it wasn't able to get all the air out of the gas line in its 3 attempts and now it is locked out and just says call service. Does anyone know how to get the controls...

My slide is in rough shape and needs new gel coat. What product/process have others used with success? Thanks

It looks like my T-cell has died....seems fitting for this year, main drain leaked and had to be blocked off then my pump cracked in half last week, this may as well go also. It is a few years old so not surprised but it looks like the cell cost as much as the entire unit did when I bought it...

It has been a fun year....first my main drain breaks, got it plugged off and running off just the skimmer....now my pump is done, the housing split wide open. Most of this stuff is around 20 years old so it is time to refurb everything, just not a good time with it being the middle of summer...

well, it turns out that my main drain has a broken pipe as I suspected so we did a full drain and plugged it off to try and get by for a couple years until the liner gets replaced. The current liner is around 8 years old and starting to fade so it is almost time, hoping to save up and do a full...

Our pool is around 20 years old or so, previous owner put it in and I don't recall exactly when. We went to open the pool and find that the water level was lower than normal....ok, it has been dry and we use a mesh cover, it could have evaporated. Put the hose in and let it fill up.....it...

I purchased a clear cover a couple years ago and bought the thickest cover thinking it would last the longest. Only a few years in and I need a new cover already. The one I bought is already breaking down and the bubbles are all popped and clogging up my filter. What is a quality brand and am...

Love this site, it has saved me a ton and been a huge help. A little history, we started out a few years ago with the conventional "bleach" method from this site and it worked good. Life got busier so I installed a SWCG (hayward) and we are on our 2nd or 3rd season (not sure, time goes by so...

Hi All, Looking for advice/experiences with auto covers. I would like to get one but have no idea what to look for or to watch out for. We are in a northern climate that sees a lot of snow as well. I would love a cover that would help retain heat and keep out leaves. Open to suggestions...

I converted my pool over to a SWCG this year and can't seem to get it sparkly clear as it was last year. I also can't keep the CYA up, we have had some rain this year but not that much, even a little dry around here. Test results from this morning were FC=4.5, PH=7.2, TA=170, CYA=20, CH=125...

Hi, As the title states I have a new swimpure plus and seem to be having issues. I have had installed for 2 weeks now and running about a week and a half. I checked it the other day and noticed that the amps were 0.....odd. I reset it and it was working fine. I checked it again tonight and...

Hi All, Just finished installing my SWCG last week and in the process had a small algae outbreak. Things are coming around, I added salt to the pool and am trying to get this thing going. I added well under what they recommended but still ended up with to much salt. First couple days the...

I need some help. I need to add more stabilizer to my pool but no one has any in stock yet but the stuff made by Utikem which isn't Cyr... acid. Has anyone used this product and will it work for me? https://www.menards.com/msds/111795_001.pdf The link shows what is in it. Thanks

The sealant around the power cord where it comes through the housing seems to have silicon and it is not sticking to the cord anymore. What sealant should be used here that is flexible? I plan to clean mine up while the water is below the light and reseal it, I haven't filled it for the summer...

I want to switch to a SWG but there seem to be so many options where do I start.?.? I'm in the upper Midwest with a 3-4 month pool season, will the cell last longer with the reduced use? What have people had the best luck with? Thanks for the help.

I ordered a new gage (and they seem to be a very high quality gage for the same or less than the cheap china gages) when I ordered my testing chemical refills and installed it tonight. On the new gage I am only getting 11.5psi. My pool has the skimmer and main return that a piped 2 into 1 with...

I purchased a Tigershark robot this year and now that I know what to expect have been happy with it. The hard to reach areas of the angled and vertical walls and corners need to be brushed better than what the robot seems to be able to do. I have a nylon/synthetic brush I used for cleaning my...

FC - 7 cc - .5 CYA- 35-40 TA - 150 PH - 7.6 My TA is a little high, is this anything to be concerned with? I am also going through 1 gallon of 12.5% a day, not sure if they are related. Water is clear and everything seems fine. I also just hooked up a pool heater and started running the...

I have 2 questions after starting to open my pool this year. 1) In a hard freeze area do I need to remove as much water as I did? I took it down under the light but was wondering if the light socket would survive to be froze, it took a long time to drain and even longer to fill plus a huge...

I opened my pool today and it looks terrible. First off I am guessing that the tarp that used as a winter cover leaks so the on top of water got into the pool some. I have a lot of trees so the water on top was brown as well as the water in the pool :( I have the hose filling it up and got...

I'm looking to get a bot to clean my pool and the Dolphin is more than I want to spend. The Tigershark looks like it should do what I want but I am looking for real users good and bad points. I have read that some need a resticter for it so it doesn't climb to high on the wall and that some...

Just looking for thoughts and opinions on this here since I didn't get a lot of responses in the opening closing forum. I lowered my pool a couple feet below the light but didn't blow out the main drain, my thought was it would just fill back up. After more research I plan to add AF to it in...

New pool owner this year and it's my first time winterizing. I drained the pool below the light, not sure if this is needed or not but better safe the first year, it must have drained almost half the pool to get it that low. Does anyone leave the water level above the light in a region that...

We have had our pool/house for 2 months and now fall is setting in. We went for what seems like our last swim this weekend and the water was down to a chilly 72, with no heater this year it looks like the end is here. My question is do I need to maintain my Fc level until I winterize it? Once...

Thanks to this site I know which SWG I will be getting for next season now I just need to figure out which heater I should get. I don't plan to heat constantly but would like to raise the temp a few degrees to be able to use the pool in September still. looking for something reliable...

This is a tough question. I really like the idea of having an SWG but when I looked at the cost was a little blown away, maybe it was just where I was looking. I don't want to buy a cheap unreliable unit but the unit I looked at was around $2000 with the stuff needed. Do I need to look at a...

I have been having some fine brown dust material show up for as long as I have had the pool (not very long). I vac it up and it keeps coming back, not a big deal, I assume it is dust or pollen or something. I finally got to the point where I wanted to try adding DE to my sand filter to cut...

I saw DE sold as a bug killer at Home Depot. Is this the same stuff used in pool filters? Just curious, I have not been able to find this with the regular pool stuff at other places and would like to add some to my sand filter.

I finally did a complete test and here are the results, question is everything seems to be working good, do I need to make adjustments? CH- 175 TA- 90 PH- 7.3 CYA- <20 FC- 6 had people over yesterday and put a full gallon of 12% in after, guess I didn't need that much. CC- .5 I get less than 2...