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Yesterday I replace my pump. All seemed to go well until I noticed water pooling at the bottom of it. Turns out the culprit is where the water leaves the pump to go to the filter. Where the PVC pipe screws into the pump, it's leaking. I wrapped the threads in plumbers tape and tightened is...

We've got an older in-ground pool (guessing put in sometime in the early 90's) and the main steps into the pool seem to be getting a little brittle. The other day I noticed a hole about the size of a dime that I'm guessing is now leaking water, so I'm curious...what do I use to fill that hole...

So earlier this week my Hayward pump stopped pumping (just made a humming sound then turned off). I ordered a new capacitor and just installed it. I then turned the pump on and sure enough, it started pumping. But then I realized about 30 seconds later that I had forgotten to prime the pump and...

I vacuumed the pool without issue, then turned off the pump to clean out the pump basket. I then closed it back up and tried to turn the pump back on and just got a feint hum for a 10 seconds or so, then it went completely silent. Any ideas what might be going on? It's a Hayward 3/4 HP Super Pump.

So I've had pretty major water loss (1-2" per day) since we got our pool up and running this year (bought the house, had to replace the liner) and after doing a bit of investigating, I found that the hole in the back of our underwater light casings (we have two lights) where the cord for the...

I know there are dozens of factors that play in to how much water evaporates from a pool, but ours just seems high. On average, it seems we're loosing about 1" per day (that's on non-swimming days, so it's not due to splash-out). Various bits of info that may or may not be pertinent: * Water...

Short story: No water is coming through the skimmer or main drain pipes...nothing at all and I can't figure out why. Longer story... Went out of town on Saturday morning. Pool was pumping fine. I run my pump 24/7, and made sure the water level was high so that we wouldn't loose too much while...

What are some good things to have for keeping our pool safe for our kids (and the neighbor's kids)? Our pool is fenced in separately from the rest of our yard, so that's a good step, but should we get some sort of alarm device or something for if our kid or our neighbor's kid somehow sneak in...

We've been on a two week journey of shocking our pool and now that it's nearly 100 degrees, the family is ready to swim (plus, my wife is wanting to have a pool party in a couple of days). So now that our pool is clear, what is a safe FC level to swim at? Here are my current test results: FC...

10 days ago our pool was a nice thick green. Now, it's no longer green, it's just cloudy. I can see about 3-4 feet down. I've kept the pool at an FC shock level of 12 for 10 days now and it just doesn't seem to be clearing up at all. Here are my test levels as of this morning: FC - 9 CC - 0...

Should the suction on my vacuum be really obvious? I can feel a small amount of suction, but not much, and it certainly doesn't seem to be sucking up anything. I'm wondering if there's some sort of clog in my skimmer line. If I'm running my filter and shut off the main drain, looking through...

I've got a 22,000 gallon pool with one skimmer, one floor drain, and 3 returns. My pump is a 3/4 HP Hayward Super Pump. Is that enough horse power for my set up? Would there be any benefit to a higher HP pump?

Wednesday afternoon I shocked my pool. There wasn't much green/algae, but FC was near 0 and the water was super cloudy. Since Wednesday afternoon I've done my best to keep FC at ~12 (though it's gotten as low as 8). It's been as high as 14. So, now it's Saturday and while the water certainly...

Yesterday evening my FC was 0 and CC was 0.8. I then added a little over 4 gallons of bleach. This morning my FC level was 2.0 and CC was 0.8. So, two questions here... 1) I'm shocking the pool since my FC level was 0, so am I correct that I need to keep trying to get FC up to ~12 until the...

This evening I'm adding my first round of bleach (6%) to my pool. Looks like I'll be adding around 4 gallons of it. Do I just pour it in over one of the returns? Or do I need to walk around the pool to try and distribute it evenly? Do I poor it in the skimmer? Wondering what the "proper" way...

My CYA levels are currently 0. According to the Pool Calculator, I need to ~7 pounds of stabilizer (I'm using 100% Cyanuric Acid granules). Right now I've pour a bunch of in to a sock and dropped in in my skimmer, but seems like that could take days to add 7 pounds worth of the stuff. Is there...

We had the guys who installed our liner do a month of pool maintenance, and due to various circumstances our pool had to be shocked (it was a nice thick green). No clue what they used to shock...I did see them pouring in a liquid around the whole pool, so I assume it was some sort of liquid...

I have an in-ground pool that we inherited when we bought this house, and just purchased a Crud-ton of pool equipment. But the last piece that I missing (that I know of) is thing to hook up my vacuum hose to the skimmer. What is that called? And any place in particular I should buy it (online...

We bought a fixer-upper last year and just got the liner in the pool replaced. We have no pool gear (other than a working pump), or chemicals. The guys that installed the liner got us up and running and made sure the pumps work and got the various levels of things correct, but now we're on our...

When registering, I had to try three different email addresses before I was able to actually successfully register. I kept getting this error: "The entered e-mail domain has no valid MX record." They were most certainly valid and working email addresses, so seems like phpBB has a bug of some...