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    Newby needs advice on whether to replace or repair

    First, the bad news... I've got a WaterCo T500 sand filter that came with my 18x34x4 ft. pool (16,200 gallons) which I bought two years ago but haven't really maintained until now (long story). The multi-port value on this filter has always been balky, but about 15 minutes ago the handle broke...
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    Calculating volume of an oval pool? I'm deeply confused now

    Okay, so I have an 18x34x4 foot oval pool. PoolCalculator.com tells me that this pool holds 16,200 gallons of water. The back of the pool chemical bottles and most online calculators tell me it holds 14,387 gallons of water. Now... maybe I'm doing this all wrong, but my OWN calculations tell...
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    Alum worked... kind of. Suggestions?

    So, I've got a first-class swamp... an 18x34 above-ground pool that was built two years ago and then (due to separation and divorce) neither filtered nor covered nor treated for two years. I've been working on it for about a week--shocking daily, algaecide, got the pH balanced, etc. I went by...