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Thank you for the advice on the ca scale, duraleigh and pooldv. I agree with your analysis and just filled it back up, and for this season will just run a lower pH with hopes of dissolving the scale. Looking closely at the walls, there aren't really any spots where the CA sticks out and makes...

Can you access any ground level below the pool? If so, you may not need a pump at all, except maybe to get a siphon started. I was able to do it using a siphon and keep it going overnight. Just a word of caution with those submersible type pumps - the ones I saw for rental at our local HD and...

The spigot will drain if you have the pump running and the spigot open. However, as I found out in my case, my skimmer and plumbing was configured in a way that the spigot would only drain until the water dropped below the skimmer inlet, after that the pump would stop unless I have a special...

So I finally managed to figure out how to drain the water below the skimmer using a hose and siphoning out into the woods below the pool. Managed to get quite a bit drained overnight. Now the consequences of running the high pH seem to be be more clear, my pool walls have chalky calcium residue...

First, many thanks for all the responses and advice. I've been reading the forum and it is so educational. Dave, Yes, fill water will be coming from the house water, hardness is indeed 80, no water softener. Checked it again today. Got the pool drained about 10% and refilled four times so far...

Just tested the tap water, CH is around 80.

Hello TFP community - I'm a excited new first time pool owner - bought a new home in Sep 2016 with a truly awesome pool. Had a pool service up until three months ago, until when the leaves and pollen became heavy, and the pool guy started showing up less and less frequently until one day he...

I have that exact same pump and pipe setup on my 15000 gal pool, except that my pump is almost 13 ft above the pool water level. The company that installed it (before I owned the home) did a really lousy plumbing job, so there are several unnecessary elbows after the pump going into and out of...