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I've already closed my swimming pool. This year I would like to drain some of the water that accumulates on the top into the pool. The only product I found that does this is the following: One-Way Winter Pool Valve - The Pool Supplies Superstore The same product is also sold in other places...

You can use a bubble level on the rails.

Cloudy water upon opening? Or cloudy water after two days? Cloudy how, like green or yellow algae? Or something else? If it's an algal bloom the default response is to shock it for a few days while brushing the edges free of algae and guck and running the pump and filter continuously. Use...

I had a similar problem with sand spewing out the return jet. I wasted my money buying a new internal part – there are plastic laterals in there. When I took the old one out it looked 100% intact like it was new so I put it back. But it turns out there was an internal plastic basket that got...

Unless it's nighttime that's unpleasantly warm. No cooling off there.

Today I attached the hoses but the winter cover is still on. It's 83 degrees out and will be even hotter tomorrow. Yet the pool water is just 69 degrees. I am sure it will cool down by more than 2 degrees once I mix the water and add a few inches depth to bring the water level up to the...

I saw that part online but forgot about it. It's not in the plumbing section so I didn't see it when I was shopping for the reducer. Yes, a 1.5" to 1.25" reducer coupled with that Everbilt adapter should do the trick. I ordered those parts for store pickup and I'll see how it works soon. My...

While I didn't ask for an associate, I was at Home Depot Yesterday. I found parts to reduce the 1.5" down to 1.0", but there were no parts to reduce that further down to 0.75" with a male thread.. So I am still on a quest. I'll check what Lowe's has too or, as you suggested, go to a plumbing...

My above-ground pool is only 12 feet in diameter. A submersible pump isn't necessary. I just drain it with a hose when it's a few inches too high. Right now I use the vaccuum hose attached to the sand filter when I want to drain it. I only drain it passively, not by pumping it out. After...

I suppose I could use a bare garden hose as a simple siphon to drain the pool. But ideally, I would like to somehow attach a garden hose to the filter or to a vacuum line to drain. There are times I need to drain the pool, like after a rainy week. It would be nice to be efficient and water my...

Unless perhaps you are like me and you keep a solar cover over the water 90% of the time, especially when it rains?

Okay I get it now. I really wanted to raise the pH by 0.2, not by 2.0. I should have known better. There is some disagreement about the effect of adding 2 ounces of washing soda, but the question is more whether it raises the pH by 0.15 or 0.20. Either way it's moot now because I used 64...

Exactly! It seems that the recommended TA of 80-120 is too low for my yard. It wouldn't surprise me that, had I talked to a local pool store, they could have told me that Greater Boston pools need a high TA. Last year I think my TA was at 170, but the chemistry was stable. I certainly never...

I've aerated so much that it's reduced the TA over time to 70 or below. I'm ready to replace it with baking soda but this time bring the TA to 140 instead of 100. I'm hoping this will fix pH continually drifting down. Strangely, I never measured it before. The pH of the city water is 7.3...

There seems to be some confusion about how I am using the PoolMath app. In order to more explicitly point out the contradiction, I have enclosed a new screnshot of the PoolMath app. Notice how in the top red circle recommends that I "add 2.1 oz by weight...of washing soda" as an alternative to...

I guess I don't have a good answer about the contradiction in the PoolMath page. I'll just aerate to 7.6 then using baking soda to raise TA to 140 like I had last year. I also don't have a good answer on why the pH just continually decreases, but from what I've read, a high TA can guard...

No I am not. I am aware that adding baking soda will fix my TA problem, but then I'll have to spend extra time aerating. I suppose that's not too big a deal, but look at the picture. It specifically says that adding 2.01 ounces of washing soda will increase pH from 7.4 to 7.6; then on the...

Last year my pool's alkalinity was in the 150-175 range and CYA was around 70, which sound high. Yet my pH was very stable and I did little or no aerating and certainly never had to add acid. I've always used the Taylor chemicals to balance my pool throughout the season. This year is different...

My pool has been open for a few weeks now, so I have been successful. I am surprised how few posts there online are about leaks, since it must be pretty common. Here is what I found: I had to drain the pool below the return jet and redo the connections. Some of them I put on very tight so I...

I just opened my pool. It's above-ground pool with a sand filter and no deck. This is the second season with my pool and I have never opened it before. I thought it would be pretty straightforward; just the reverse of what I did to close it, then chemical balancing. The hoses and caps were...