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    Best online sites for solar covers

    Looking for recommendations.
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    Solar Covers Online

    Does anyone recommend a place to get a solar cover from? I have my measurements from when I did my mesh cover pool. I dont have a regular rectangle pool more like custom shaped.
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    Skimmer Valve Question

    It seems my skimmers are not pulling in water? Does this mean that my skimmers are closed?
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    Bullnose Paver Grout Width

    Question how wide should be the grout in general?
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    New Quartz Plaster Calcium Hardness

    I am on my 3rd day and my calcium hardness is like 275. Are my levels too high? I have seen some sites say to not exceed 200? What should I do?
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    Calcium chloride TA

    Does adding calcium chloride increase total alkanity? I noticed my TA went up after I added calcium hardness
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    Pool filter area options

    Looking for ideas to make this area cleaner. Mulch isn’t the best option I think. Looking for ideas.
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    Really low PH new plaster

    I think my PH is below 7 by a good amount. I may of put too much Muratic acid in and no stores are open this time. If I dont raise the ph until 10 am EST tomorrow will this be really bad for my new plaster? Should I look into getting some Borax tonight somehow?
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    Calcium Chloride

    Out of the big box stores where do you guys recommend to get some calcium hardener?
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    Meyco Rugged Mesh vs MeycoLite

    Is the Rugged Mesh a much superior product? Need to finalize between the two. Looking for opinions.
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    Pool coping question Brick Bullnose

    Question I am redoing our pool deck now to a paver patio. I have roughly 20-year-old brick bullnose coping. I am pondering paver bullnose pavers for like no additional cost. Would you guys stay with the 20-year-old brick pavers? Or go the paver bullnose coping route?
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    Plaster Prime Question

    My plaster guys primed our pool after removing plaster, my question is does this look normal? The white area? The priming was done yesterday around 18 hours ago.
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    Pool Molting Quartz

    What is a bigger cause of molting in the say first year not enough plaster brushing in the beginning or poor water chemistry. I have heard quartz molts alot and i was wondering if I brush a lot in the beginning will that help the situation the most?
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    Plaster > Wet Edge

    In general what is a normal upcharge for going from regular plaster to say Wet Edge Luna Quartz? Also how about then the upgrade to Wet Edge Primera?
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    Taylor chemical reagents expiration

    A lot of mine have expired in 2018, is it time to replace them all? Or can I still use them?
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    Pool Plaster companies in Baltimore,MD Area

    Can anyone recommend any? Looking to get my pool replastered.
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    PebbleTec Costs vs Regular Plaster

    so we have like a 22k gallon pool. Just wondering roughly how much more is PebbleTec vs Regular Plaster
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    Chemicals for closing

    I live in Maryland, and this year I am doing the chemicals myself for closing. Do I need anything other than making sure my PH is level, and giving it a good shock? Is algaecide required? Or Something else?
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    Pump wont Prime all of a sudden

    Could use help guys, this is weird I have plenty of water in the straining baskets, and when I click start on my pump it doesn't prime. But doesn't even look like its trying to Prime which is the weird thing. One thing to note when I open the air release water starts going back to the pool...
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    Advanced Skimmer Baskets

    Guys which one of the advanced skimmer baskets have you guys used / recommend? Like Skim Doctor or the other ones? Looking to see if they are worth it.
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    What time to run SWG does it matter

    Should i run it during the day or when the sun is down or does it even matter?
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    Wiring with a Variable Speed pump

    The pool installer who installed our chlorinator installed it to our main power box that has a timer that we dont use at all. We have a variable speed pump which has its own timer on it. The problem is now I have to leave the chlorinator on all the time and when my pump is not running I get a...
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    Ran de pump without water

    To make a long story short I was lowering the water in my pool to close the pool but forgot to turn off power to my pump so it ran for a few hours without water. Did I damage my pump or should I be ok? This is a newer variable speed pump I bought a year ago
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    Dolphin oasis z5 questions

    What does the orange light mean on the main power station? It comes on sometimes about 10 minutes into the cleaning. Also I see 2 sets of filters, is the one that looks like the home "air filters" the more heavy duty ones? And the "See through" ones meant to clean bigger stuff like leaves,etc...
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    Dolphin Oasis Z5

    About to pull the trigger and buy one. Anyone recommend or not recommend? Best place to buy if recommended,etc?
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    Dolphin Z5 or Polaris 9550

    Which one is generally known as the better cleaner.
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    Leak in plastic can I caulk ?

    I have a small leak in the black plastic part where the arrow is. Can I use caulk or something to stop the leak? I unscrewed everything temporarily for the picture
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    Dolphin Nautilus Plus issues

    So I got the Nautilus Plus and I am not really happy with it. I think its because I may have too many leaves. Are there any robots that work better with a good amount of leaves? I am close to returning this because I have literally emptied the filter like 10 times in 2 days. Also, it doesn't...
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    Dolphin Nautilus Plus Questions first time using

    1. Will the robot automatically stop when it gets full of leaves? 2. Do I keep the filters in if all I want to do is pick up all the leaves off the bottom?
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    Opening pool robot question

    Can I put the robot in and put it on before adding any chemicals? I am assuming yes since it says to keep it below 4 chlorine.