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Interesting idea that I'd never thought of. So just take the wand part of the pressure washer down into the water and pressure wash it off. That will be a whole lot easier than the wire brush method. I have on the order of 100 spots. All pretty small, but plenty of them. I like that pressure...

I went through a similar swamp experience with a pool when we bought our current house. With ours, we discovered while draining it that there was, in fact, a dead body (of a deer) at the bottom. We have an earth filter, not sand, so I can't offer much in the way of advice on that. I will say...

That's what I was thinking, but mine doesn't look anywhere near as bad as the example pictures so just wanted to get some perspectives. If I scrape them off with a fingernail I do feel the "waxy barrier" mentioned in that link. I guess I'll consider myself fortunate that they're not as big and...

This is our sixth season in our house, which has a plaster pool that was basically a swamp when we bought it. It cleaned up pretty well and we haven't had any significant issues, but I do have an algae question somebody may be able to help me on. I'm familiar with the traditional green algae...

There's a comment in the manual in the RS-485 section that says some controllers that work with the Intelliflo won't work with the SuperFlo. Possibly the protocol is different.

I'd start by asking again for clarification from the cement contractor. If he won't give a straight answer, that's not a good sign. If he says he used "roofing paper" then it increases the likelihood the problem was with the tiling job, not the decking. Next, I'd go to one of the areas where...

I can't speak to whether your pump supports RS-485. But I can tell you my experience using multiple Pentair VSF pumps on my Jandy controller. The main filter pump (tagged "Filtration") works fine when connected with power on all the time and just using the RS-485 to turn it on/off and control...

There's the possibility of miscommunication / mishearing here. Is it possible somebody said "roof paper" and somebody else heard "newspaper"? Seems possible the decking is fine and the problem is the mortar/grout was run right up against the decking rather than leaving a gap. Seems like an...

Not sure if this matters, but I think a very thin skim coat had been applied to the plaster at some point in the past. Maybe a cheap job before they tried to sell the house. The reason I think that is because there are many places around the pool where potato-chip thick parts of the plaster...

Three years ago we bought a house with a pool. Getting it running was an adventure. The house was a foreclosure and the pool was untouched for three years. It was a swamp, complete with a dead deer on the bottom that we didn't know about until it was drained. But that's the past, and it's...

Thanks for the reply, Jim. How thick is the plaster typically? Like, how do I know if I'm through the plaster and touching the gunite? And how does plaster typically fail? If it has to be redone I'm fine with that. It's just that I had a pool guy looking at it when it was empty a few months...

This is my first season owning an 18 year old pool in a house we bought this spring. Pool had been unused for 3 years, was a disgusting green swamp, and we had it drained and acid washed. Came out looking great. However... When the guys were draining and cleaning it the business owner...

I'm leaning more toward going that way the more I think about this, where I live (outside Philadelphia), and my operating season (late May to late September). Yes, they're close and those are the options if I want the SWG to hit both the pool and spa. Problem is the U requires adding four 90...

Here's a link to a photo of the plumbing coming out of the heater: Shared album - Mike Widner - Google Photos My automation controller, SWG, and valves are all Jandy. The pumps are Pentair, but the Jandy stuff talks to and controls the pumps perfectly well. My setup will run pool and spa as...

Prefix: I'm new to all this. Recently bought a house with an 18 year old broken Jandy One Touch system on a pool/spa combination. I completely replaced the 18 year old Jandy control box and added an iAqualink last weekend (my Saturday) and replaced the filter pump with a Pentair Inteliflo VSF...

I just got my VSF up and running today and it's the same for me. For now I'm keeping mine in VS mode. I'm a little curious that you're showing 69 watts at 1750 RPM. I'm showing 370 watts at 1750. Never had a pump that reported wattage before so I don't have any points of reference. Just...

Ahhh, yes. Sorry, it didn't occur to me that the photos weren't clear. When somebody said "beach entry" and talked about sand I had no idea what any of that meant so I didn't reply. What was going on with the earlier pictures is that there was a ton of water and basically silt/mud on the...

Thanks, good tip! I went with the 12 lbs because there is a note written on the controller with instructions on how to backwash and re-fill the filter. It says 12 lbs, so I went with that. But I'll do some more research and see what I can figure out.

Pool full, water clear at the moment, kids feeling excited. I know half the world won't be able to see that photo below, but here's the kids first steps into the pool. It's come a long way in a week. Also added to the google photo album here: Pool Photos Main motor is on its last legs, so...

Good idea on the critter skimmer. I felt a little guilty about the frog genocide I committed with the trash pump. Not sure how many got sucked through there, but there were enough in there that I gave up trying to catch and release after a couple dozen. After I started refilling the pool I...

I'm not sure what's going on with the photos and why they're not showing for some people. I haven't figured out how to fix it yet. In the mean time, here's a link to all of them on google photos. Pool Photos - Google Photos I spent most of my day getting the main filter pump operating. The...

Perfect, thanks. So when winterizing a pool people don't typically plug the drains? They just use the shutoff valves to keep the pump dry? I'm now wondering why the plumbing doesn't freeze and burst. Or why when I fill up the pump reservoir the water isn't flowing back to the drains.

This is undoubtedly an easy question... Trying to get my pool working and not sure what I'm looking at here in the drains... The pool has two drains at the bottom of the deep end, both look like what's pictured below. There are two ports in each drain, one of which is plugged (the one on the...

Yes, it was gross indeed. The more I messed with it the more I realized how bad it was. The builder of the pool was Pebble Pools in Royarsford, PA. Built in 2001. I don't have very good pictures from the front of the equipment, but here are a couple. This is the pump, filter portion. The...

The pumps are 1) a main pump [WF-28], 2) a pump for the slide water [WF-26], 3) pump for spa jets [I think, WF-28], and 4) a vacuum booster pump. That's left to right in the photo below. Yes, I'm replacing all the drain grates. As for the relief port in shallow end, I'm told that's just how...

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Here's what it looks like almost empty, I'm going to start refilling tomorrow. Thanks for the tip on the CYA and testing out the filter with the hose in the skimmer. Didn't think of that! That is indeed a slide on the right. At least it appears to be. Unfortunately the plaster on it is...

Good idea on metering the water, I hadn't thought of that. It should actually be pretty easy because we're not living in the house yet (so no other water consumption) and the meter is in my basement.

So now that I'm moving forward, here is my plan. Please feel free to critique and suggest alternatives. 1) pull the plugs on the bottom drains, install the new drain covers 2) start the long hose refill process 3) test my water after I have a couple feet of it in so I know what I'm dealing...