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    Pool newbie has some installation questions

    Thanks, Jim, yes that makes sense. The maxflo will come with unions on the pump anyways, so I will get rid of the grey ones. I just hope there'll be enough pipe left to get a join in on the intake side. If not, I have no idea what to do. I was looking for the grey unions at Lowes today, but they...
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    Pool newbie has some installation questions

    Thanks Jim. You were right, I eventually managed to open them. What I don't get about this union business is that they are glued in themselves. So unless my pump would happen to come with just such a union in exactly that place, I'd have to get a new, identical union anyways and glue the half...
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    Pool newbie has some installation questions

    Our pump went out (not sure what it was but probably a Hayward Super Pump with a GE 1.5HP engine) and with the help of the information in this section, I decided to by a Hayward MaxFlo VS to replace it. Everything looks pretty straight forward, except there isn't much room for cutting and...
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    Happy swimming in Ohio

    Hello all, Thanks for this tremendously informative forum. We bought a house with a pool (specs in signature) in June and the pool was more of a pond than a pool with tadpoles, pond scum and all. But we managed to clean it up partly thanks to the useful information in this forum. The chemistry...