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So I have been a pool owner for a year and I have never had to SLAM my pool. However, my brother just bought a house and his pool is a mess. It needs a full re-plaster and new deck but he is waiting till fall for that. It is not a full on swamp but here is the story so far: He took...

I have some areas where the grout is cracking and chipping out between my flagstones on my coping. I know nothing about how to repair or fill in these areas. Any pointer on what I need to buy and how to do it? Thanks!

So I have a light in my spa that is tripping the GFCI. I took it out and its all corroded inside. The last owners never even put a gasket on it, it was sealed with silicon. No joke. Scary. Anyways. I need to replace the fixture. I have done all the pool work myself do far and for some...

My pump is dead and not being replaced until Monday. So I have 3 days of having to manually chlorinate and mix the pool. So how high should I bring up my FC and do I just brush a lot? Days are getting hot here so I am worried about FC loss but my CYA is at 80 so I think I will be ok.

I have a Hayward 400k BTU heater that seems to work fine, if i can actually get it to ignite. Sometimes it will fire up right away but it seems most of the time it tried and then i get an IF error and it kicks into service mode. If I press MODE and switch it back to pool, it will try again and...

I live in Austin so I don't need freeze protect too much or at all but this weekend it's going to stay in the 20s for a bit. It did this a few weeks ago and my freeze protect basically turns everything on. The pump (switching between pool and spa) the booster pump for the Polaris and the spa...

I think I've posted about this before but I cannot for the life of me figure how to get a deal in my basket lid of my northstar pump. I even bought a new lid. Took it off, put tons of silicon lube. It pulls air in to the point where I have little bubbles in my pool all over. I had it nearly ok...

I've replaced nearly every gasket on my pool pad since taking ownership of my pool last summer. It just got cold for the first time and I noticed a little seepage from the SP740DE multi port valve on the filter. Is there anything special about replacing the gaskets on this valve vs the smaller...

I have an attached/raised spa. It has 4 returns in a semicircle on one side and only one return on the other where to waterfall is. The lone return is much lower flow and also no bubbles come on when I turn the blower on. Is this how it's supposed to act? It's a new pool to me and I just...

Does anyone have any tips for getting this pump basket to seal. I even bought an entirely new lid with new t seal, lubed it up and it still suckling air. This model has no o ring that I can see just a t shaped seal that fits ina groove in the basket lid.

So I just replaced all my o-rings on a Jandy valve and when replacing it i noticed that it was over tightened at some point and it is cracked where one of the screws was put in on the cover. Both the cover and the valve body are slightly cracked. I didn't think it would matter that much...

So when I took possession of my pool I originally had a check valve that was leaking causing the spa to drain down when the pump was off. Last weekend I has a suction side leak at my main Jandy neverlube valve that is right before the pump. This is the valve that switches the suction side from...

my clean pressure on my DE filter is 20 psi. When I turn it to spa mode it jumps to 27 psi and the spa gets cloudy and murky. It seems DE is getting back into the spa. I have no idea how old the grids are (they could be up to 9 years old) and when I cleaned them a couple weeks ago I didn't...

I have read that it is rare to have a clogged return but I have a question about mine. I have a new to me pool. It is about 9 years old. The filter pressure was 25 psi when I got it. I just took it all apart and cleaned the grids and installed a new gauge this past weekend and the pressure is 22...

so I am still new to this. Have had my pool a month and this is the first time I have had significant rains. It's been raining non stop since Saturday. It's crazy how much dilution I have gotten. Is this normal? Here are my pre rain numbers: FC: 8 CC: 0 PH: 7.5 TA: 80 CYA: 70 CH: 425 Salt: 3200...

We just had a bunch of rain. My first big rain with the pool. My salt was around 3000 ppm with Taylor test and the aqua logic said 2800 and after rain my Taylor test said 2600. I just backwashed too a day ago. The system said low salt so I added a bag. Then I went to the diag menu and instant...

So, I haven't owned a pool that long but I found logging my chemicals tedious with something like excel or the notes app on my phone. So I made something that I could use to track my testing and what I have done to the pool. It is web based so it should work across all platforms. The deal is...

I bought a house recently with an SWG pool. I am noticing some sand in the pool from the rocks where the water feature is. Is this salt erosion? Do I need to seal this rock? The flagstone coping is fine but there is a little white scale like stuff at the sides of the spillover. The pool is...

Hi, I have a question about the CYA test. When I go my new house the CYA was 50/60. It is an SWG pool. I tried to raise it to 70 to start so I don't overshoot it so I added 2 lbs cya in a sock in the skimmer. I finally tested it at 70 about 24-48 hours after adding. Now a week later when I test...

New pool owner, not a new pool. I have 2 returns that happen to be the ones right under the skimmers that don't flow in my pool, the eyeballs look great, nothing weird. All other returns work as well as my polaris line. I do not have float diverters in the skimmers if that has anything to do...

My spillover spa is draining to just above the returns each night when the pump is off. Here is a pic of the return side: There is the main neverlube valve, then 2 check valves. Not sure why there are 2? Can anyone explain my setup. I am a new pool owner but am very handy. Can anyone...

Hi all, I have been reading this forum for a couple months ever since I put an offer on a house with a pool. Well, it is finally a week away and I went over there and stole some water to test. First off, it is a 13-15k Salt pool. I just checked out the Equipment and I will post pics soon so...