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UGH! I don't know what got into my 3 year old (who easily potty trained a year ago) — but he pooped in our hot tub. What do we need to do? Drain everything and start over? Replace filters? Obviously disinfect. I'm so irritated because we JUST drained and balanced the chemicals a week ago and...

Hey there! I posted quite a while back about a mystery tear in our Coverstar pool cover just months after it was installed. We had it patched and have done fine with it until this fall when we had another mystery tear in a totally different place. The pool guy and the coverstar guy both came...

Hi there! We are trying to get our pool going for the summer but our heater doesn’t seem to be heating the pool. We can hear the heater ignite, we can hear and smell the gas running. The top of the heater is hot to the touch with hot air coming out of the vent. The light on the front says bo...

We just had our 20x40 inground pool installed the very end of August. We had a coverstar auto cover installed on top and after less than 3 months it has a tear! :( We contacted the company that installed the pool and cover and sent them a picture. They said it likely won't be covered under...

Hey there, We're working on hiring a builder for a new pool. We're going with a 20'x40' liner pool with an auto-cover (we had an auto cover installed at our last home that had an old pool and LOVED not having to worry about the kids and how clean it kept the pool). We have a few questions...

I'm winterizing my pool. I have a pretty good idea how to do it (at least I thought I did). I'm following the same instructions I did last year, and last year went off without a hitch. After doing all the necessary cleaning and chemical balancing, I drain the pump basket. I set the mutiport to...

I'm getting ready to close my inground pool. This is the first year I'll be doing it on my own. I've read the article in Pool School about this and have a few questions. 1. How do I get the antifreeze into the lines? When I watched the "professionals" do this last year, they blew air into the...

Hey, This is year 2 of opening our pool and I still feel like I don't know much! We probably didn't close our pool properly because we opened it up and had another big mess this year. I'll have to follow up with questions about that in the fall. Anyhow, as for this year... we have been working...

My husband and I spent some time cleaning up our pool after several days of rain and used the vacuum to get a bunch of debris off the bottom of the pool. After doing this, we noticed the pump wasn't working as well as it typically does. The pressure was down at about 5 psi and there was a lot of...

The pool store is recommending we try something called "super blue." The lady said that it sticks to the sand and helps the finer particles adhere to it and helps to clean up the pool. Any opinion on this?

Hi! I was able to get my pool in pretty good shape before going on vacation. It looks good, but I can see dirt on the floor of the pool, so we've been vacuuming. We're getting up all sorts of stuff! I just did a complete round of tests and was wondering if I could get some input on what I...

Hi, We a purchased a home this past fall. The house had been sitting empty for a couple of years and my husband and I just uncovered the pool last week. We've been working on getting the pool cleaned up and it's coming along, but we aren't sure about what to do about the pools coping. It is a...

I was able to get everything running on my pool yesterday afternoon. I waited a few hours and did the testing. I tried to figure out the volume of my pool by using a pool volume calculator online. I don't know for sure how deep my pool is because we just purchased the house and the deep end is...

Alright, I cleaned off my pool cover (surprisingly, with a LOT of help from my almost 6 year old). We got the cover removed, but I'll have to wait until my husband gets home to get it all folded up. There were just a few leaves under the cover and I was able to get those cleaned out as well...

Hi, My husband and I live in Michigan and purchased a house last fall that has an in ground gunite pool. It was covered with a loop loc cover and the pump was running when we purchased the home, but when we looked in the water it was black and there the walls are black too. We had the pool...