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My pump was leaking and based on comments and suggestions here, I called a pool guy to come take a look. He replaced the shaft seal and it looked like it fixed the problem. The next morning when the pump started it sounded terrible and by the end of the day it still appeared to have a slight...

Has anyone ever seen this happen to a pump before? I’m assuming I’ll need to replace it as it’s leaking slightly, but do I replace the entire unit or just the motor portion?

I purchased new cartridge filters for my Hayward Swimclear. These are supposed to be direct replacements for original. Everything measured out fine, but the cartridges would not seat on the base. I placed them in the sun and was able to get them on the base, but then the alignment “spider” at...

My 2-wheel pool cleaner stops every minute or so and then starts up again. In the last few months I have replaced the rear skirts and the turbine/vanes. It was doing a great job after the skirts were replaced until the vanes got jammed up and no longer stayed on the turbine. It’s working okay...

Does anyone have any knowledge or experience with the Breeze 540 SWG? Also, how can I determine if I need any changes to plumbing or electrical to install a SWG?

I just drained and refilled my pool this week and need to add stabilizer to bring the CYA up and want to make sure I'm understanding the pool math correctly. My CYA value is zero at this point and it says to add 123 oz by weight and I'm calculating 7.7 lbs. My other values are: FC = 5, pH=7.5...

I've been testing my pH level almost every day because it seems to go up very quickly. I do have a waterfall which I've turned down so that it only runs the last hour of the pump time. If I don't let it run at least a little bit then my pump won't prime the next day. I'm still trying to...

Hello, I'm new to this site and am happy to have found it. We purchased our house 2 years ago with an existing pool and have had trouble from day 1. We are previous pool owners (10 years) and never had problems so this has been frustrating :mad:. We had the same algae problem last summer so...