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I think next year my pump and motor along with sand filter spider valve???? Will come in next year. I started up this year to find pump was fine aside from seal leak but had a crack in my sand filter body even with drain plug from sand filter left removed all year. The guy that replaced sand...

Thank you for the reply. I'll let the bearings be for the time being then. I'll just replace the seal and gaskets and see how that does. If I have problems down the road I'll dig back into it. Not much mechanical intimidates me so it will all be fine. Thank you Robert

Hey. I have been all over my phone searching for info on a Dynatech pump connected to my Hayward Superpump I believe. Model and serial is gone from pump plate but pictures match it up to a SuperPump. I ordered a seal kit for it, it seems to have a pretty decent leak going on. Before I dig...

I got home about 7:15 this morning and things were looking much better. I could actually make out an outline of the main drain in the deep end. I'm still losing about 3 to 4 ppm of FC every 6 to 8 hours so I plan to keep the slam.up and run the pump and filter 24/7. Brushed and vacuumed 3...

It will be tough to teach her, she doesn't really want to learn. She wanted the house but not the pool that came with it when we made the house purchase last year.? Go figure. I'll work on her though. At least she will bring me a water sample, that much I know. Lol. I'll report back soon...

Thanks Dave. I'll keep the slam up and leave the filter on full time. I have my main drain opened up full and the skimmers throttled back to 50% or so. Hoping pulling from deep end will clear it up quicker. Guess I just need to work on my patience a little.[emoji36] I'll keep up the slam...

Hey RonsPlc. Thanks for the advice. I will keep up the slam and brushing and see how it goes. I see progress but it seems slower than last year. Guess that's how it goes sometimes. Nothing is ever consistent. Question on slam while at work. I work 24 hour shifts so would having my wife...

Hello everyone. I posted a couple weeks ago about opening to a green swamp with tons of leaves in pool. Cleaned them out and found out my sand filter was shot. Kept chlorine at 10 with pump on recirculate till I got new filter. Filter was installed Thursday and I can't seem to get my water...

Do you actually have gas running thru that PVC line?? To the best of my knowledge that is not up to code anywhere ever. Be VERY CAREFUL working around that line. PVC can get pretty brittle in general, no telling what natural gas running thru it could do to its integrity. If it were me I...

That looks fantastic!!! Awesome to be able to follow the build with your pictures. Love these types of threads. Enjoy your new addition this summer. Robert

Hey. Thanks for the reply. A little update to this, I checked chlorine about 6pm and had 1.0 FC and 0.0 CC so I went ahead and added a gallon of 10% chlorine and put 6lbs of stabilizer in 2 socks and got them in the water and added 80lbs of salt. My filter won't be in till Thursday so all I...

Hey, Closed the pool per instructions here for first time ever last year. Bought house in March of last year and knew Hayward S244t drain threads had seen better days but extra teflon tape cured a leak. Pulled cover off 2 days ago and way more leaves than expected had blown under cover and...

Hey. I just made up that contraption with a male end to connect my air hose directly to and a shut off valve in line with it then a female coupling that could connect to the male coupling that screwed into the pump drain hole. That way as I shut off a skimmer valve I could close off the air...

Here is the valve and fittings I rigged up to close pool. Cheap and easy setup.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Just following up, yesterday I finally closed my pool myself. Well, all the lines are blown out and some antifreeze added for that warm and cozy feeling on my first try. I rigged up a fitting to screw into drain fitting of pump and used my air compressor and...

Hi everyone. Thanks for all the replies. I've been stuck at work all day on a beautiful 75 degree day. All I could think about was all the time I was losing sitting here waiting for 7AM in the morning to get off work. Of course they are calling for rain the rest of the week. It did give...

What type of plug for cleaner line are you referring to? Just a regular plug like I would use for the returns?? Sorry, pretty new to this but quick learn usually. :) Robert

Hey, I don't have a dummy pipe but my cell will be getting replaced in spring as well. It is on its last leg and reads well below my 3200 salt level, I get about 2500 on readout. Have cleaned cell with no change. New cell in my future. The cleaner is on suction side. How do I get...

Just to add to above, those photos are before I plumbed leaky heater out. There is a union on one line of new plumbing but nothing on the slightly leaking flex hose side going from pump up to filter. It is getting changed out with a union along with a union on the line off the right side of...

Hi. It is a rectangular 29,000 gallon according to records of local pool company. I have a main drain, 2 skimmers and a cleaner line. The cleaner line has a flip open cover in the side of pool to plug Zodiac cleaner into. The pad has a sand filter, heater that is plumbed out currently and...

Hi, I am prepping to close my pool this week,,, new home owner and first time closing. Have read pool school info on closing, kept my chemicals in check and water beautiful all summer with pool school instructions. I was going thru a bin previous owners had with plugs and the skimmer gizmo and...

Interesting. Good info to know in that salt level does not change fc level. Thanks for the info.

I like it when it seems oceany. Seems to be good for teenager acne too. Saves me $$$ at dermatologist. The sun probably helps more. Everyone is different. I don't mind the salt. I would think as long as you crank the % up on chlorine generator you could run a lower salt level. Just...

Thank you Felipe. I will get a timer and get my pump set up on it. LPS said run 24/7 but everything I have seen on here pretty much disagrees with that. I will make adjustment on SWG to compensate for running 8 hours a day. I plan to get a robot cleaner too so perhaps that will help with...

Just bought house with pool, pool company opened pool 3 weeks ago. Since then I have browsed the forum and order a TF-100 and Taylor KS-1766 and got them today. Ran my first test and got the following results. Wondering if anything is major out of whack?? FC- 4.0 CC- 0.5 TC- 4.5 TOTAL...

Ok, so my testing kits came in. I brought some water to work and read up on the kit and spent an hour performing all the tests. I work 24 hour shifts and have 12 hours of down time unless we get a call so it was a great time to learn the kit. My results came back as follows with the TF-100...

Thank you. I just placed my order for the TF-100 from poolsupplyworld.com. Delivery by the 31st but hopefully sooner. I also ordered the Taylor K-1766 kit to test my salt level. It will be here tomorrow thanks to that big River store. As soon as I get the kit and have results I will post...

Hello. Been watching forum and recently closed on a house with a pool. Pool is 29,000 gallon with SWG and S244t sand filter. I plan to order a testing kit this week. I have been relying on pool store for last 2 tests since they opened it. The pool store opened it a few weeks ago and poured...