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Our pain tolerance for this house would no more than $30K to repair the pool, remove the diving board and replace the mechanicals.

Hi there -- We are long-time pool owners (15-year-old 23-40 pebble-tec pool) and are looking to purchase a new home in a different state. One of the homes we like has a 17-year-old pool that has sat in an unused state for 3 years. The seller's Disclosure states the fiberglass pool has a crack...

We are selling our home with 23 x 40 inground pool and downsizing. To replace our pool we are thinking of a Swim Spa. SwimEx is one of the manufacturers we are looking at. Swim Spas - Hydrotherapy, Exercise And Rehabilitation Pools | SwimEx Does anyone here have a Swim Spa? If so, what...

We purchased the Dolphin 300SI in October 2018. It was awesome! We set it to run three times around the pool and it did a magnificent job. It did a magnificent job with cleaning the walls, the bench and the stairs. It was my best buddy. About a month ago it died. Took it to the store...

We installed our new variable speed pump in late October and several other components to the tune of $8,000. The pump failed in June and the pool company replaced (jul 3) the control board under warranty. Went out this morning (3 weeks later) and the pump is dead again with the same issue...

Hello - Thank you for your reply. We checked back with the electrician and he states he would be using an Eaton surge protector with 5 year warranty. Pool - The cost for the surge protection to the pool is $331 + $14.95 in parts. He suggests we replace the ground wire at the same time...

Our 8 month old variable speed pump failed ten days ago. The good thing it was under warranty. The pool tech said it probably failed due to electric surges. We are near Atlanta and have lots of storms. He recommended we contact an electrician to install surge protectors. We have searched...

I've dropped the PH to 7.2 - 7.3ish. The pump is on full blast. Water is losing the haze from the pump being off the past 10 days. The pool never got real dirty as I kept it chlorinated to the target level every day, ran the robot a couple of hours each morning and I swam laps in the...

We purchased our home with an older pool in October. We spent about $8K on new pump, filter etc.... We were paying a big named pool company to do the maintenance but they made a big mess of the chemistry. We discontinued their chemistry maintenance, purchased our own Taylor test kit and...

We purchased our home with an older Pebbletec pool in October. In the past couple of months I have made several posts on TFP as we resolved some of the problems. After discharging the pool company and taking our pool chemistry in hand (and after spending days reading the most excellent...

Good morning We noticed when pump is running at high speed the Quad DE filter shows a pressure of 25 and backwash needed. When the pump speed is reduced to medium the pressure returns to about 10 The pump and filter were just installed in October and we are newbies. Recommendation - should...

On Thursday we filled the pool exactly to the bottom of the white overflow square. It rained heavily on Friday and parts of Saturday. It sprinkled on and off today Sunday. My husband checked the pool and we are exactly two inches BELOW the white overflow square. The pool company used a...

We partially drained the pool due to high CYA. We still need to partially drain again as our CYA is still 83 after the first attempt. The pool looked fine the last time we took a close look at it back on December 4th. The pool is about 100 feet from the back of the house and I have several...

Hello -- Hope someone can shed some light on this new issue with our pool. A couple weeks ago we partially drained (2/3) our pebbletec pool and refilled it. After we refilled it we had a multi-day rain and the water levels were MORE than adequate. The temps here near Atlanta are 26 - 38 at...

Good morning We are going to attempt draining our pool 1/2 way (high CYA) Our pool company drained it last time. They used a submersible pump and 2" blue hose. Unfortunately, we were not there when they hooked everything up. We have located a pump and a hose, available electric and we have a...

Hello We are hoping someone can shed a light on an issue we have with our CYA. Oct 1 - Water tested by local pool store CYA = 128 Nov 15 - Water tested by our local pool maintenance company using their Taylor test kit = CYA too high to get a value Nov 15 - Water tested by local pool store...

Thank you Texas Splash. We ordered the Taylor 2006C kit last night and hopefully will arrive on Friday. My husband is a drug chemist and should be able to begin testing multiple times per week. I spent several hours reading through the forum - especially regarding CYA. It sounds like we...

Hello all We purchased a home (Georgia) with 34,000 gallon gunite/pebbletec pool in October. The pool was cloudy when we took possession and had yellow algea. The pool needed many upgrades which we completed in mid-October including re-plumbing, installing variable speed pump and DE filter...