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After thinking I was fighting dead algae, now I'm thinking the cloudiness is caused by DE/dirt coming back into the pool from the return. My husband ran our DE filter without DE when he opened the pool. It ran like that for quite some time in a green swamp. I killed off all the algae but I can't...

Ok, let me just start out by saying that if i wasn't in a dire rush to get this pool clear by the 4th of July I wouldn't even be posting this question. I totally know and agree that I should just stay the course of the SLAM process but I don't think my now cloudy pool will be clear by July 4th...

Hey there. So as long as we've had the pool, the bottom of the pool wall under the right side of the deck always looks wet. The ground doesn't always look wet, but the wall of the pool at the dirt line looks wet - just in that area. In the attached pic the dirt also looks wet, but that is not...

I am in the middle of a SLAM and went out about an hour ago to bring the pool up to shock level for the night. I have to turn off the filter because my DE filter is clogging up pretty rapidly and requiring bumping and backwashing consistently - every couple of hours. So I can't keep it running...

I was looking at some client photos of the same pool I have (21'X54" Saltwater LX Round Pool) and I noticed that the service panel where the skimmer box goes was a tan color. Mine is blue. It always had this little tear line from where the return hole was made but i just thought that was a...

Hi there! We had a new AGP installed last season and have no problems with it. But something I noticed after the install has irked me mostly from a visual perspective but more importantly I just want to make sure it's "normal" and in no way hazardous to the integrity/strength of the pool. One...

Ok, so I have a 21' round, 4.5' deep AGP. I don't have T-Rex arms but i'm no Stretch Armstrong either. So, against what i know to be the "correct way", I have been taking my water samples from the side of the pool furthest from the return and about 14 inches deep I'd estimate. So not at the...

Hi there. Had to do a SLAM because my FC had dipped to 1 and i started to see a little algae growth I had to get rid of. And my pool was eating up chlorine like crazy. Right before my SLAM yesterday i tested the CYA to be somewhere between 20 and 25 (it had gone down from 30 after a few heavy...

I just went to turn the pump off because it's just generally loud and I'm sure my neighbors hate me when i leave it running all night. When I went back there I saw the flex line being sucked skinny and I couldn't see anything through the pump lid because it was all fogged up. We had a pretty bad...

Ok, so i posted a week or so ago that my pump basket doesn't get more than 2/3rds full of water. So i assume there is air getting in somewhere. I located 2 drips. But i'm not sure if the areas of the drips would cause a problem? Other posts I've read and videos I've watched say that the leak...

Hi all - We have our filter running, but the pump basket will not fill up all the way. It's only getting about 2/3 full. Running the hose over all the connections did not eliminate the issue for me to be able to detect a leak in any of those spots. I noticed that the filter itself it not...

Hi guys - we finally replaced our 20+ year old pool with a new one. The guys came and installed it yesterday and had us do a half fill (NYC tap water via a hose ). They are going to come back this week to set up the skimmer box and return. So it's not yet pool weather in NY and won't be for a...

In my previous post I showed the leak coming through the pinhole that I was able to find and repair in the vinyl. The liner definitely needs replacing - no doubt. But my ultimate question is - do I need to replace this whole pool? There are little tiny pin holes all around the pool on the...

So i went under my pool deck to retrieve my son's water gun and I found this happening. Oddly enough when i went back about an hour later the water had stopped coming out of that particular hole, but I then found another one just the same that is still going strong. So we bought an under water...

My Hayward ec40 is supposed to get 4lbs of DE when clean/new. I set my new one up yesterday measuring the DE with a blue Leslie's DE scoop. I was under the impression that it held 1/2 lb of DE so i put in 8 loose scoops. Come to find out that I really should have put a little less than 6 scoops...

Hi there - firstly thank you SO MUCH for all of the info on your site. It is unbelievable how much I've learned in the last two weeks about my pool and how to properly care for it. I went from a green swamp to crystal clear water in a matter of days thanks to you guys and no thanks to the mess...