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I have a 10+ year old in-ground pool that was installed by a previous owner. The wires feeding from the outdoor pump house were ran in seal-tight and buried. All the other equipment (including the wiring from the light niche to the pool j-box and from the pool j-box to the light switch) are...

I can run new wire. I guess I would dig around the conduit in the pump house and cut it and glue an extension on it to get it up to the subpanel. i was just hoping to avoid pulling another 100' pull of 3 wires. I should also mention for the record that the light is low voltage and the wires...

Hi Doug, Thanks for the response. I may not have described it properly. The pool side: The light is in a wet niche with a j-box installed approx. 8" above grade (and 18" or so above the level of the pool water) and approx 48" from the pool. From that j-box, there is pvc conduit running...

I bought a home with an existing pool 2 summers ago. I noticed that out in the pump house, a piece of sealtight has broken and cut partially through the ground wire of the pool light circuit. There is sealtight running from the subpanel to about 4" underground. At that point, there is a male...

Thanks for the quick responses. I'll be doing some research tonight, but I am leaning toward the Intellichlor IC-60. As I understand it is better to over rather than undersize the cells to get longer life. This site is great! crawlejg

Hello all. I am getting excited for the new pool season. We are opening next week. Last year we spent way more money than I am comfortable with using liquid bleach as the sanitizer. Got home late a couple days, had a couple algae blooms... Anyway, I am interested in installing a SWG this...

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Here it is. There is no sticker on the tank. The multiport valve has no name brand on it, but the model number is 272526. Thanks.

Sorry to take so long. Here is a picture. :)

Yes, indeed! I added two large (182 oz) jugs of 6% chlorine bleach, which according to the pool calculator should bring me up to around 7 ppm FC. Thanks again for all of your help!

The pool is finally coming around. Unfortunately, my vacation is over with no swim time. :( The pool is still a little cloudy, but vastly improved. I can see the design on the vinyl floor down to about 5-6' deep. I'm getting ready to add some bleach for the first time in several days. I...

Hi! I am a newbie and have greatly enjoyed the sight. I have an IG vinyl lined pool with a 24" diameter sand filter (36" tall) which came with the house I bought last summer. The filter has no labels on it. Could anyone tell me how many pounds of sand should be in the filter? We recently...

It certainly is. More good reasons to find a good resource such as TFP to learn to take care of things on your own

Is refilling 10,000 gal or so out a well advisable? If not, any idea how much it costs to have water trucked in? Should it be pre-chlorinated from a pool water place, or should I try to find someone that can fill up a tanker from a fire hydrant? Thanks again.

I may have been unclear before. I haven't gone from 100 ppm CYA to less than 30. The 0 (or less than 30 ppm was measured Friday - with a Taylor kit and the 100 ppm was measured after adding the CYA). For the past two days, I measure approx. 90-100 whenever I test the CYA at home using my...

I just tested again...I get 90. We had it tested at two different stores today and they both said it was 30-50 and the strips come out low. I know neither of these are as accurate as the melanine test, but I can't understand how it got so high. On Friday, I had 0 CYA (well <30 I guess to be...

We are excited to go swimming (we are on vacation this week). Now that the water is blue and cloudy, should I add a clarifier, or try DE in the sand filter as described in the Pool School? Thanks again for all of your help. BTW, made it back to Leslie's and our store does not carry the...

No worries...just learning. Bad news, I went to the pool store to get new FAS-DPD reagent, and they sold me the wrong bottle. I needed R-0871 (FAS-DPD), they gave me R-0001 (DPD). :grrrr: I'm not sure I'll be able to make it back before they close tonight. The good news is that the pool...

It's a blue automatic cover. I'm not sure of the brand off hand.

Ran out of FAS-DPD reagent during test. :( Guess it will have to wait until tomorrow night. Any chance doing it during the day with the cover on would work?

yes - when just looking at it, I can just see the bottom step. If I place the brush in the water, I can see it down to about four feet. However, I can't see the design on the liner or anything below about a foot. Thanks.

I have not done the overnight FC loss test. I'll try that tonight! Thanks for the tip on TFtestkits. The water is clear with a green tint (in a white bucket). In the pool, you can see down about 3-4 feet. There is no growth apparent on the walls and nothing gets stirred up when I brush the...

I apologize :oops: . I do have an FASDPD kit...it is a blue plastic box with liquid tests for chlorine, alkalinity, pH, hardness, and cya (with the black dot). Although, the kit is getting quite depleted after all the testing the past few days. :cry: Is there some sort of filter that I can...

Thank you for the reply. I was really hoping that draining and refilling wouldn't be necessary, especially after all the $$$ we have dumped into the water that we would throw out. I have read each of the articles that you recommended...in fact, I've done little else for the past several days...

We purchased a home last year with a 38' x 18' pool (3' in the shallow end and 12' in the deep end --> roughly 35,000 gal, I think). We had a total reset done last summer because the house was in an estate and the pool had not been taken care of. No problems last year. When we opened it this...