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Second season pool owner here and after getting a grip on the water chemistry last year, I spent some time to understand the heater and its cost a little better. I am posting this mostly to share the info and as all of this is freshly googled knowledge, if I am wrong somewhere, I appreciate...

We recently had some kids over and needed to get our pool heated from the upper 65 to 85F. What is the best pump speed for the pool to heat up the fastest? I have a Pentair 300k BUT heater and a Penair Superflo VST. I have the pump set at night to run slowly at 1400. The heater ran all night...

We have a water feature and an auto cover. The water feature is similar to what is shown in this picture. The pump is set to run from noon - 8 PM. We had people over Sunday night and the water feature was used. Around 10 PM I closed the auto cover. With the pump being off, I did not realize that...

Before I got to this site and learned about liquid chlorine, I went to Walmart and bought a variety of different products thinking I will be using them at some point. I bought 6 packs of this product. It has 43.47% of Trichloro-S-Triazinetrione and 56.53% Other. I only see Trichlor listed in...

I am a new pool owner. I had been using a pool service company for a couple of months but finally found the time to read up and canceled the service about two weeks ago. The pool has a Rainbow 320 chlorinator which was full with tabs when I took over. The chlorinator was set to 4/5. My intent...

My pretty much brand new to pools and today for the first time used the Prowler 920. The manual refers to being able to set a weekly cleaning schedule. However, on the power supply there are additional buttons with other options and a Bluetooth LED is also lit. The manual makes no reference to...

Hello, we have built a new house last summer along with a pool. So far I have had a maintenance company take care of things. I have had no reason to complain as the water clarity and quality have been consistently good. I do enjoy taking care and understanding these things on my own, so I...

New house & pool nightmare. Pool backwash pipe accidentally connected to sump pump. Pool owner newbe here with one previous post. My new experience is turning into this :(. The new pool is almost done. Today we started to move into our new house and noticed water in the unfinished basement...

I have zero pool experience but this is about to change. We are currently building a new house and need to decide what kind of pool we want. The first and most important question as it influences the design of the pool is whether to get an auto cover or. Ideally we like to get an L-shaped pool...