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I agree that it sounds like marketing hype. I have not been able to find contact info for the manufacturer, so I can't ask any of the questions that JamesW suggested. That's why I thought to post here and see if anyone has first-hand experience with this brand. woodyp - I don't know about 15...

Thanks Maddie. An autocover isn't a feasible option for this pool: not only is it kidney shaped, but the deck on one side is two feet higher than the deck on the other side, so a cover that goes over the top won't work. You are probably right. I suspect that all pool covers are made using...

I just purchased my third solar cover. Here in Southern California, I use my solar cover year round, because even in the winter, it's helpful in reducing evaporation. (If I leave the cover off for a few days even in the winter, since I don't have an auto-fill valve, I can see the water level...

I have a kidney bean shaped pool, and I use a reel, but I take a somewhat different approach. My reel is at the end of the pool, just as it would be if my pool was rectangular. I cut a strip of my pool cover that's anywhere from 1 foot to 5 feet wide (depending on where you measure, because of...

My home came with a pool and the pool came with a vacuum plate in the skimmer. It's a Pentair Vac-Mate, which allows me to keep the automatic pool vac hooked up all of the time and also allows me to adjust how much of the vacuum is directed at the pool vac and how much is directed at the...

Yes. It's an old pool with a flat drain.

My House came with a pool and the pool came with an old Hayward Pool Vac. It worked reasonably well for the past year, but the only way to keep it from getting stuck on the main drain was to divert almost all of the suction away from the drain and to the pool vac. A few weeks ago it started...

I have a 6-month old Pentair FNSP 48 DE filter (48 square feet of filter area), but I've never cleaned a DE filter before (been reading about it today though). I don't have access to sanitary sewer and I don't really have a place in my backyard where I want to backflush DE out to. I'm...

Thanks for the reply. The problem with that solution is that I have to pinch back so much of the flow that my 2 HP pump is circulating less volume than (I imagine) a 1 HP pump would be circulating if the flow wasn't restricted. When this pool was installed in the early 90's, it was designed to...

Hi - I just joined this forum and I don't know much about pools (yet), but I have worked a lot with that kind of pipe. I recommend against heating it - that often leaves you with a pipe that won't seal tight no matter how much you tighten the hose clamps. I also recommend against cutting the...

I seem to have a suction side air leak problem, looking for advice on how to deal with it. This is a 15,000 gallon pool with a single skimmer and a single main drain. There is a suction-side Jandy valve that allows me to select the skimmer, the main drain, or both. The skimmer has a Pentair...