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Right now I have an intelliflo hooked up to a manual timer. the booster pump is also connected to a manual timer. I'm getting quotes tomorrow to replace the broken intelliflo and go with a 2 speed pump. Will the timer have to be replaced? Will any other wiring have to be done? Thanks.

I have a Pentair Intelliflo variable speed pump. It is 3 hp (I think) and has 4 speeds. I think lightning may have fried it the other night during a bad thunderstorm, I have an electrician checking it out today. If it is fried, I was thinking of going with a cheaper 2 speed pump and possibly...

was at walmart this morning and I see they have a new label on their great value bleach. it's says "easy pour bleach" but removed the info about the % of sodium hypochlorite. I can only assume they did this on purpose and will not buy from them again until they publish this info again. it...

ok, i'll admit it, I'm drunk. I went to open my 50 lb bucket of 73% cal hypo granules and I swear it has this yellow haze in the bucket. I fanned the bucket with the lid but I still caught a whiff than Dang near knocked me out. does cal-hypo put off yellow fumes or was this my imagination...

i have a cartridge filter and only clean it once a year, so I would like a vacuum that I can use to just do touchups and not have to drag that huge hose out. it could be battery powered or powered by the pool cleaner line (I do have a booster pump on this line), but it needs to have it's own...

I have a HTH 6 way test kit from walmart. It tests total hardness. I always assumed that this was the same as calcium hardness, but i may be wrong. I do not have a calcium hardness only test, so i was wondering how much different the two can be and if there is a rule of thumb (like calcium...

toilet had terrible stains on them that nothing would get rid of, even bleach. the stain was dark brown and was rough to the touch. i read online that a splash of muriatic acid worked, so i tried it and it immediately ate the stain away. just a fyi

pool is a year old, inground gunite with white quartz finish. seems i have to brush about every other day to keep the light green algae off the walls, especially in shaded areas. it comes off fairly easy. water temp has been around 90. always keep my chemicals around 3-4 chlorine, ph 7.5ish...

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this weekend. I only clean mine once a year. My pool builder gave me another set of brand new filters. Should i just clean and reuse the ones already in the filter or use the brand new ones? I had planned on doing this but i started worrying about how the current filters will hold up after...

I saw this posted on another board and was wondering if anyone has tried this or if there is any truth to this theory: High Cyanuric Acid I have not tried this yet. But do you know that Cyanuric Acid has a specific gravity of 2.5? Water has a specific gravity of 1. If this is correct...

i have this big grey plastic container i store my 50 lb bucket of trichlor tabs in. i just bought a 50 lb bucket of 73% cal-hypo granules. if they are in their own seperate buckets is it going to be alright to store them both in the same large plastic container outside? i know about not...

testing for CH with my hth 6 way test kit. water is supposed to start out red and change to blue. after adding the indicator my water turned golden yellow. after adding drops the water turned light green?? the other day after a heavy rain i added a bunch of bleach and muriatic acid. i...

Anybody else's intelliflo make a squeak/squeal sound when on speed 2 (1500 rpm)? Seems to be louder when it's warm. Pump is only a couple months old.

I have many small dark green spots on my fairly new quartz plaster. i assume they are algae. how to get rid of them.....scrub them???, shock with bleach??? Thanks

I have a newly constructed pool and i believe it is leaking. I have performed 3 24 hour bucket tests and all 3 showed a 1/4" drop inside the bucket and a 3/4" drop outside the bucket. My pb is downplaying this and saying 3/4" loss per day is normal. Am i right im assuming that anything more...

the plaster company showed up at 7:00am and started plastering my blue quartz at about 7:30am. they finished about 10:00am and now are acid washing about 11:30am. is an hour and a half enough time to allow for drying before acid wash? i'm concerned because i thought they come out the next day...

the overflow drain on my new pool appears to be just about a 3-4 foot pipe that is run directly into the ground. i was under the impression it would be run out somewhere where it could flow, but my pb says they are all like this??? it's just stopped up and will never really work like this right?

Upgrade amount over white plaster: Add quartz (generic i guess) $1250 Wet Edge Luna Quartz $2150 Wet Edge Pearl or Satin $3500 I was thinking about using quartz, but is Luna Quartz that much better than regular quartz? What's the difference? Thanks

Leaning towards Diamond Brite or Wet Edge Luna Quartz and want to know how well they hold up over time. Thanks

Gunite was shot about a week ago. It rained heavily today. My lot slopes and all the rough plumbing pipes that are under ground show signs of leaking on the interior. Actually 3 return pipes and one of my led light openings all showed signs of leaking. Does the builder need to be aware of...

I initially told my builder i want to go with standard white plaster, but am considering the quartz additives now. My main concern is the smoothness of the quartz. Is it rougher than standard plaster and does it really last longer than regular plaster? Thanks

I have read about the bad things associated with each, but has anyone used their inline chlorinator and just switched every year between trichlor and cal hypo? Does it work to keep CYA and CH down? Thanks

they dug the hole, rebarred it, and rough plumbing all today. question, i was under the impression that our pb was using all 2" pipes, but the rough plumbing pipes for the skimmers and jets are all 1 1/2". is this standard?

a plastic cylinder about the size of 10 pucks stacked ontop of each other. this clear cylinder would hold liquid chlorine and be inserted into existing rainbow erosion feeders to slowly introduce liquid chlorine into your pool. the bottom of the cylinder would have a very thick kind of mesh...

All i ever hear is how bad trichlor is on this forum but there are many, many people out there that use trichlor almost exclusively and have clear pools. I'd like to hear from some folks like this and give me tips on how to keep everything in line, especially cya. I am in the waiting process...

Still a newbie here reading as much as i can about cya since i will soon have a new pool with an inline tab feeder. I came across someone saying that an old pool guy trick to lower cya without draining and refilling was to add 1-4 gallons of ammonia then a day or 2 later shock it heavily. Has...

i've heard some people who use baking soda and trichlor exclusively and never have a problem.

We had a vinyl liner pool growing up and my mom said a pool guy once told her that adding a bunch of baking soda to the water allowed her to use much less chlorine. She said the pool guy told her to add so much that you could slightly taste the saltiness of the baking soda in the water. She...

I just signed a contract for my new pool. I'm going old school with the rainbow 320 inline feeder. I've been reading alot about trichlor (what i plan on using). The main drawback is it raises your cya over time. My dumb newbie question is this: Why don't they make some other kind of 3 inch...