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    Pump loses water flow every couple hours

    Trying to clear the pool. For maintenance, it's like 2 a week but we can't seem to get the chlorine high for long enough to kill off all the algae. We've gone through 25 pounds of super zappit and 24 gallons of liquid chlorine in like 9 days. Over $200 already. Really hoping tomorrow shows some...
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    Pump loses water flow every couple hours

    Ok, so I'm reading some of these. We bought Chlorshield for the first time this year, it did raise our cya level but we don't have a fancy test kit. Also - can we just add standard bleach rather than liquid chlorine? At a minimum of 6 gallons a day, this is getting awfully expensive!
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    Pump loses water flow every couple hours

    This is the filter/Pump we have. Waterway 22" Sand Filter with 1.5 HP Pump 520-1700 - - - Updated - - - What does that mean? Sorry!
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    Pump loses water flow every couple hours

    It's cloudy, our pool place in town keeps telling us to shock it but now not so sure because it's reading chlorine but still cloudy. Year 1, we had no problems. Year 2, difficulty keeping water clean, we replaced sand didn't see much improvement. This is year 3. The water had gotten clear but...
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    Pump loses water flow every couple hours

    Hi all, brand new to this group, looking for any and all help! We have a 33 ft, 52 in above ground pool with a sand filter waterway pump. 1.5hp pump takes 150 pounds of sand. It's running at 18 or so psi and pumps great for about 2 hours, then we have a huge decrease in the water flow out and...