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I placed an order about 4 weeks ago with Propool for a Calimar 3hp to replace my 1.65 VSP. However, it's apparently backordered and they keep moving the time frame on me, currently saying early May it'll get to them, after originally saying it would be in last week. So maybe second week of May...

Hello, I purchased PureLine Prime Variable Speed Pool Pump 1.65 HP Salt PL2625 in 2019. Last season I attempted to rebuild it because I had a slow leak at the pump/motor interface I wanted to fix, so I might as well do the bearing and stuff too. There were some issues and back and forth with...

Wasn't sure if I should put this into here or Under Construction or elsewhere, feel free to move it. Pool was renovated last June, new plaster, coping, tile. Plaster is KrystalKrete if it matters. I brushed and did everything I was supposed to last year, it was good and smooth and nice when we...

This was at least 5 seasons (that's how many I've had and I never got around to deep cleaning it). Grids cleaned up relatively well but I'm gonna acid soak them tomorrow just to get whatever stains and stuff I can get off. Might as well at this point. Grids seem to be in good shape. I guess I'll...

Winterized like always. Trying to get open today. Put the filter on recirculating since I didn't have water to the skimmers yet to add DE, put the valves to pull only from the main drain, and as I'm writing this I realized what I did wrong. I left the return plugs in. So the pump seemed to...

It's been pretty hot. Not sure if it rained. Should I test them against my kit from last year if I can find it and if they're good they're good? Ph kit was in its case so it wasn't direct sun, the others were sitting next to it. Been in the low 90s. I think it was just one full day probably...

I added 800lbs salt to my pool after the 28 days of the Reno were done. 26k gallons or so. My K-1766 kit expired about a year ago, but it's saying like 5000 or 4800 ppm salt. And there's just no way, right? I should be around 3700 by the math. I think my salt cell is saying like 3400 and it...

Hey, One of my skimmer weirs has been an issue for a few years, it keeps falling out. I tried to replace it, but even though the replacement looks the same as what came out, it doesn't look like it will go in properly. I can't get a good picture, it's an old Anthony and Sylvan pool, if that...

Hey, so I have a pinhole leak on my DE filter from under the band I think. I'm planning to take it apart in a month or two when I get time and clean the grids and put it back together. The leak itself probably isn't a huge deal overall, except I think it's letting air in when the pump is off, so...

Noticed my main drain suction was not like it used to be after the plaster was finished a few days ago (Monday, filled Tuesday), getting tons of air (I have a small suction leak in a busted valve that's being replaced next week), not enough water at full pump speed, seems like there's a...

So I've read a bit on here and it looks like high CSI is good for new plaster (like, +0.5), through some studies that have been done. Obviously my PB doesn't read any of that scientific Darn and just does what they've done for decades, so I'm planning on mostly ignoring him because they're just...

I have 2 1" pvc returns with no eyeballs, just straight pipe. My cleaning flow around the pool could probably be improved. I'm having the pool re-plastered in a couple weeks. It looks like I maybe can find one inch eyeballs, but they're all glue in, and that seems like a big step considering...

I'm sure this has been asked a ton, but I'm mostly curious about my heater. It's an older Raypak 350k BTU gas, RP2100. I don't know if it automatically bypasses itself when it's off and water just flows through the front block thing, or if the water flows through the whole thing. If it doesn't...

Hello, Our neighborhood got slammed by a high EF-2 tornado a few days ago. We were lucky and missed the actual path by a couple hundred feet, some beautiful trees down and stuff, but the rotation pulled everything away from the house, so we're overall ok. Unlike some neighbors who are missing...

I see I can get an entire set of them on their website, but I don't need either an entire sample of 12 colors, or a set of 6 of the same color, although I can do the 12 if I have to. I think we're leaning towards Aqua Blue, but wouldn't mind samples of the rest of the untinted blues. Locally is...

Hello, My heater is hit and miss this season. Beginning of the season was fine. Last few weeks, when I call for heat, it occasionally stops basically immediately and throws on the Service and Pressure/High Limit red lights. Never tries to light. Cycling just the power to the heater doesn't...

Hello. We're getting our pool renovated either this summer, or fall (leaning towards no) or next spring. Two PBs suggest DiamondBrite, a third suggest KrystalKrete as their main, but can do DiamondBrite for the same price, they've just used the KrystalKrete longer. The samples look basically...

Not sure what I'm missing. I feel like I struggled a bit last year, but eventually got it. But today it's just not happening for some reason. I've followed all the instructions I can find at various places. I've tried with the pool drain, I've tried with the shallow skimmer. I've tried with...

So as a follow-up to this thread about repairing my robot, I have a new question. Special thanks to @Mdragger88 for saving me a bunch of money. I received almost $650 from the extended card services warranty company for the robot. It needs a motor for sure ($300 for parts, $75 for labor) and...

So a couple days ago (luckily JUST after it had finished a final cleaning before I closed the pool, sometimes you do get lucky) my Dolphin just stopped working. It was going along happily in a cleaning cycle, came back and it wasn't moving. Not unusual, at the end of the cycle the light stays...

I can't seem to find any of my usual 31.45% muriatic acid anywhere nearby. Lowe's, Home Depot, pool store, Walmart, Amazon even. Everything seems to now be the "green" low odor stuff which is basically just a weaker version (unlabeled of course) with some other stuff in it to stop splashing and...

Hello all, We're getting quotes for tile/coping work to fix some issues on an older (late 80's maybe) Anthony and Sylvan plaster pool. While doing that, we're trying to make the rest of it as perfect as possible. We have some staining and then some off-color mottling all over. Three questions...

Not sure if this is the right part of the forum, didn't seem to fit any sub perfectly. Anyway, some of the tiles in our surround are coming off. I think the robot has been hard on them, plus the caulk around the top edge is damaged along most of it and letting water behind I think. Besides...

Basically started using it in Spring of 2018, purchased Fall of 2017 though. The non return bags in the filters are not staying put anymore. Usually when I take the filters out now the bags are just hanging out in the filter basket, no longer holding fast around the plastic inlet. Are these...

So I opened last weekend. Other than stains from worms (a recurring yearly problem) not too bad. Got it all started and cleaned up. Having trouble finding calcium chloride for a reasonable price. I have 100 lbs on order from Walmart, but delayed, and 100 lbs ordered from 3rd party on Amazon but...

So I had low filter pressure the other day so I checked some stuff, the pump basket was a bit clogged with small stuff and the impeller was pretty clogged too. So I cleaned that up and it back together but it didn't sound right, realized I had put the wear ring in backwards, fixed that...

I realized when putting my pool back together that I forgot to order a new o-ring to replace one I somehow lost or tore when closing. Replacements for my rj60 from circupool are about $21 including shipping, and that's just for ground. I was hoping to maybe swim next weekend with the heater...

My robot seems to be getting stuck more this year than last fall. Always the same places, on the top step in the corner and on the little seat in the corner. Took a video and pictures last night. He'll usually never get off, just find him there with the cycle over. Is this normal? What can I...

Finally got around to doing the bucket test, and I definitely have a leak. Looks like around 0.5 inches more than evaporation per 24 hours. So with a satellite estimate of the area, I come up with about 200 gallons per day. I don't see any water around the pool, nothing obvious in the pool...

I have a plaster pool that is showing its age on the coping and the decking. Some cracks in a few coping stones (they're pebble looking concrete things I think), some cracking in the concrete decking and the plastic dividers between slabs, and then a lot of the caulk (grout?) under the coping...