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Of course, during my 10 days home between 20 day trips to Iraq for work my Polaris pump decides that RIGHT before I have to go back is a good time to finally die. I've been expecting it as it has sounded like an angry velociraptor for the past 3 years (kind of surprised at how long it ran...

In the last months, I've complained about how hot it is in Houston, and having to travel to West TX (Midland/Odessa) for work where it's typically hotter and dusty. So now? Being sent to work in Iraq for a month. o_O

With the heatwave, I've spent much more time in the pool over the last few weeks and have been taking a long hard look at the plaster. As far as I know, it's the original plaster to the pool, and just the plain white variety. I don't have any major cracks or anything, but there's a lot of...

OK, this is very weird and I can't wrap my head around it... 2 weeks ago, my CYA was a bit low at 60, but I began a travel cycle for work and I didn't really have the time to do anything about it. Since then, it's rained a LOT here in Houston (on the brief time I was home, I had to drain the...

A few months ago, I dismantled and cleaned my DE grids as per normal. Started everything back up and added my DE, and the pressure with the pump on max was right about where it normally is (12-14 psi, give or take). I set the marker there and didn't think about it again. Until yesterday when I...

Good day, all. My old lighting system seems to have finally died. It might just be the bulb, which appears to be one of those Amazon color changing LED's with a remote control that works exactly not at all. I upgraded all of my equipment a while back to Hayward OmniLogic stuff so I'm considering...

Good day, all! Bought my current house in 2018 and since then have replaced almost all of my pool's equipment. The next (and final?) thing is the lighting.... Since it has been insanely hot here and LITERALLY hit 111 yesterday in Houston (I thought I might have accidentally driven to Palm...

A good friend of mine runs a dog boarding and training business out of her home and uses one of these to sanitize her runs and reduce the chance of spreading any kind of bacterial illness. She swears by them and says they're super easy to just hook up to the hose and start spraying. As it...

With very little effort, it looks like the pool is filled with gin (once the trees stop dropping leaves) But the water is 53 degrees.

I'm still fairly new to this setup and I have a question about resetting the cleaning reminder. When it first popped up, I took the cell off and gave it a quick inspection. Didn't see anything deposited, so I put it back together and cleared the reminder. It came back on quickly and I cleared...

I swear, I can spend an hour getting every last leaf off the bottom of the pool, turn around for a moment to shut off the Polaris, and when I look back? Right back to where I started. :mad: And they're not my trees. :mad::mad: And they're trash hackberry trees that my back fence neighbor was...

I have the 48 sqft model and this past weekend I gave it the bi-annual teardown and cleaning (I never backwash it- just take it apart and fully clean early spring and late summer). The re-assembly section of the manual specifies to torque the clamp nut/bolt to 150 ft lbs and to "NOT HIT OR...

The Encore Cool! been down for almost 2 years now, and still looks good. I have not had the time to re-seal it this year, but I'm not sure it really needs it- I did it last year mostly out of Covid Isolation Boredom. It's probable that I won't re-seal this summer, but I might come fall when the...

I am trying to figure out the nuances of "Anti-Entrapment" as far as my single main drain goes. I'm not worried about it from a personal safety standpoint, but 25 years of working in refineries where you can get fired on the spot for minor safety violations has made me OCD about such things...

I have a brand spanking new SWG and I've been working towards adding the salt and adjusting everything else that needs tweaking. Last week (since I didn't have a way to test salt yet), I went to the pool store to get a rough idea of my starting point. They told me 2000 ppm, which seemed likely...

My house originally had an awning over the sliding door to the pool. Aforementioned awning was long gone when I purchased the house and my intent was to have a pergola-esque structure put there. Got a few quotes but they were a bit (sometimes a LOT) high and I couldn't seem to get across what I...

I took the explosion of my tablet feeder during the great Houston freeze as a sign that it was time to do things differently. I have an OmniLogic setup already and Pinch A Penny is ordering the parts needed to upgrade me to a SWG. I apologize in advance for any dumb questions about best practices...

Greetings from frosty (but less so today) Houston, TX! My old, crusty, and seldom-used inline tablet chlorine feeder was a casualty of this weeks arctic blast. I'm hoping that's the only casualty, but I'll know more about that later. Right now I'm weighing options to make some decisions about...

Growing up, there was a group of kids around my age that lived along the same road in South Baton Rouge. We spent the summers at one particular house because they had a pool. That house has since been through many owners and the pool fell into neglect. Last year, a friend of mine purchased it...

My new back-fence neighbors apparently decided to drop a grand on fireworks. It was an impressive show- I remember growing up and thinking bottle rockets were the best, but now it seems near-industrial grade pyrotechnics are the trend. My dog, who normally sleeps through the neighborhood...

I'm going to start entering my CH (which is almost always 250) as 251 to save my sanity from that alert message! o_O On, edit- Now I see that there is a recommended AND ideal range... Hadn't noticed that. The more you know...….

It's been (almost) a year since I put this product on the deck and my COVID-19 isolation project of the weekend was to move all of the furniture, plants, etc... off the deck and give the area a good clean and put down some more sealant for the summer. Just thought I'd give a quick review of the...

Has anybody actually done this? o_O If I went to a 4th of July pool party, and their water was blood-red? Honey-Bunches of NOPE!!!!

My question is: How does one decide that it's time to start thinking about having a pool replastered? The background: when I moved into my house a year ago, I was given a limited amount of information about the history of the pool. I know that it was built in 1982 (somehow, the original plans...

Hi, all... I have one broken return that I would like to fix but am not quite sure how to go about it, or if I should just call in an expert. I don't have a picture of mine at the moment, but it looks like this. If I unscrew one of the remaining intact returns, the male thread remains attached...

https://www.theswasher.com Honestly? The most attractive thing about this is that my Great Dane has discovered that he can snatch the foam tail off of the Polaris and pretend it's another chew toy. This looks like it might be more difficult for him to remove from the tail! :laughblue:

Got home from a few days away and found these 3 little plastic balls in the bag of the Polaris. I'm guessing they're part of the Polaris, but I just had the wheel bearings replaced and I don't remember them looking like this. I can't imagine what else they could be from, but we did have a...

Hi all... So I had a new pump and DE filter installed in October of last year. By then, the pool had pretty much cooled off and wasn't being used anymore. I kept things pretty clean and balanced over the winter, being diligent about getting leaves out, etc. Once the pollen started flying (we...

Hi, all... I'm in the process of making improvements to a pool (and house) I've had for less than a year. The cement deck was originally (from the 1980's documents provided) coated with Kool-Deck but I am pretty sure that this coating was gone over multiple times with one or more other...

Yesterday, I replaced much of my equipment with all new stuff. Excited to have a variable speed pump and some automation! But a problem with the gate valve on the return has resurfaced. It has had leaks in the recent past (only been in this house since May), but I was able to find a position...