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I'm not sure what service we have. I'm going to let my pool guy install it because it comes with a 3 year warranty if it is installed by a licensed pool professional. I really appreciate all of information that you provided to me. I think we will get the variable speed pump since it comes...

Since the VSP pump has a built in timer, the cost difference is now only $400 since I was planning on adding a timer anyway. Since our pool is surrounded by trees, I'm curious to know if the Superflo VSP pump is more likely to suffer damage if the skimmer gets clogged with leaves and the pump...

Does the VSP SuperFlo's timer allow you to turn the pump completely off at night instead of just running it on the lowest speed at night and can it be set to turn back on at a certain time in the morning? Can you shut it off quickly and easily when you need to shut off the pump for some reason...

Our old Hayward Super pump has a seized motor and I have been told by a pool pro that we need to purchase a new pump. He recommends getting either a Pentair SuperFlo High Performance single speed pump or a Pentair SuperFlo VST variable speed pump. We hope to only own this house for a 3-4 more...

We opened up our pool yesterday and discovered that the pump was broken after unwinterizing everything. My husband was unable to fix it so he wants me to call our pool guy to come look at it. It may be a week or two before we get the pump fixed since our pool guy is swamped doing openings...

We can't get our pump to turn on at opening. We hear a humming sound when we turn it on but the pump turn on. All of the plugs on the pump and sand filter were put back in and we filled the pump up with water to prime it. It looks like the guy who closed our pool did not turn off the...

I didn't realize that the cover needed to be off to burn off the CCs so that is good to know. If I'm supposed to wait a full day before adding CYA, should I bother adding chlorine that first day, except at night since the sun will burn it off really quickly due to low CYA? Chlorine is getting...

I planned on doing a soft opening of our mesh-covered pool for the first time this year so I could keep the cover on until the trees surrounding our pool stop dropping debris into our pool. I peeked under the cover and the water is already green and there are leaves and bunch of dead worms in...

I called an electrician and he recommended a wifi extender so a wifi timer can be installed by the pump. Do you happen to know of any good Wifi timers that are reliable and relatively inexpensive?

Is it possible to get an on/off switch installed inside the house for the pump? If so, would it likely cost a lot to get this switch installed by an electrician? There are always bees near the pump so I'd like to be able to turn it off and on from inside the house. I know that I could buy a...

I know that chlorine will oxidize polyquat so I know that it wouldn't be wise to add any chlorine now. I was asking if it would potentially help if I added some more polyquat in a few months while draining water out since I know that the rain will dilute the polyquat and what little chlorine is...

Since the water temperature was 65 degrees at closing and we had a week of warm weather in the 70s/lower 80s after closing, I worry that the FC is already at 1 ppm or 0 now since it was below minimum FC after adding the polyquat before closing. I just wanted to know if adding polyquat with a...

It looks like the water temperature is finally down to 60 degrees, even though we've had a lot of warm days since closing. Water temperature was 65 degrees at closing.

I was talking about adding polyquat instead of adding liquid chlorine. I thought that you weren't supposed to add liquid chlorine if you closed with polyquat because the liquid chlorine would degrade the polyquat. If I added chlorine instead, wouldn't the polyquat just consume it like it did...

I added polyquat to my pool several weeks ago before closing and it surprisingly dropped FC to below minimum FC level for my CYA. This concerns me because its been warm since closing so FC might be at zero by now. When I expressed my concerns about this FC drop to my experienced pool guy, he...

If I want to learn from this experience, what should I do next year if I decide to close before the water temperature is below 60 degrees again and add polyquat? I added 28 oz of polyquat at half SLAM (8 ppms) to my 18K gallon pool and let the pump run 24 hours afterwards. CYA was 40 and PH was...

I added polyquat to my pool before closing 5 days ago. CYA was 40 so I added it at half SLAM level, which is 8 ppms. After running the pump for 24 hours, I tested my water and FC was only 3 ppm, which is the minimum FC level for my CYA. When I used polyquat last year, it only lowered the FC...

I have two hairline cracks on my concrete pool deck that I'm concerned about. The most concerning one is 5 foot long and starts at the edge of the pool and goes through the middle of the skimmer and ends on the sidewalk . The other one I'm concerned about starts above the tiles in the pool...

The pool service that made those winterizing plugs claim that they always use them and never had any issues. The water rarely freezes completely here though. My husband broke one of those handmade winterizing plugs when opening up the pool one year and we didn't have another one made so our...

We hire a pool guy to winterize the pool. He plugs each return line with a special winterizing plug that was made from plumbing parts that allows him to blow water out of the lines and add antifreeze without draining any water out. Here is a picture of the winterizing plug, in case you are...

Please listen to the people on here who are telling you not to drain your fiberglass pool below the returns. I did this for years until I discovered a crack in our fiberglass pool after opening it up once. We were told that the crack was likely caused by draining too much water out of the pool...

A pool service is closing our pool tomorrow and I have have some last minute questions: 1. The instructions on the bottle of polyquat say to decrease the PH to 7.4-7.6 to maximize the effectiveness of the polyquat. Is there any proof to suggest that the effectiveness of the polyquat will be...

How long do I need to run the pump after adding dichlor and how long do I need to wait after adding dichlor to add liquid chlorine? After I vacuum out the pool, I'm going to need to add 2 pounds of Dichlor and a quart of liquid chlorine before I put the cover on the pool to close it.

My Taylor test kit says the PH is 7.8 and CYA is less than 30. My test doesn't show any CYA level less than 30 so that is why I went to a pool store to verify the level. My CYA was testing 30 a few weeks ago but we've had to drain water out since then due to rain and had to add water a few...

I'm getting ready to do a soft close and need to increase my CYA and decrease the PH before putting the mesh cover on since CYA is less than 30 and PH appears to be 7.8. I hate handling muriatic acid and don't want to wait a few days for CYA to dissolve so I was thinking about using Dichlor to...

I'm getting ready to do a soft closing of our mesh-covered fiberglass pool because I'm having a terrible time keeping leaves out of the pool. I plan on running the pump with the cover on for approximately a month until the water temperature gets cold enough to close it. Before I put the cover...

I am thinking about doing a soft closing for the first time this year so I don't have to deal with all the leaves that fall into our pool this time of year. Our pool guy who will be winterizing our pool on November 1st says that many of their customers do a soft closing when they have a pool...

I recently sprained my ankle and don’t feel comfortable getting near the pool to add liquid chlorine and muriatic acid since I’m on crutches and wearing a boot. Since CYA is only 30 and our pool will only be open for another month and a half, I was thinking about switching to chlorine tablets...