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So this is my 3rd swim season with my pool, and I have not had 1 single issue with my water chemistry (thanks to this site). I am now ready to install a salt water generator, mainly because I am getting tired of driving all over town every week trying to find liquid chlorine. I reached out to...

I finally got tired of worrying about it and pulled all drain plugs, shut off power, and put plastic bottles in the skimmers. Now I'm going to have a beer and cross my fingers.

Thanks for the advice. I wasn't as concerned about the rocks as the water freezing back into the pipe feeding the waterfall, plugging it up. I will just keep an eye on them and do some light ice removal when necessary. Just not sure what all to expect...I haven't seen temps like this for such a...

So I feel pretty good (or about as good as I can) about my pool equipment for the pending Arctic temps. I just have the pump running nonstop with a tarp covering everything. I am prepared to kill the power and remove all of the drains if we lose power for some reason. Right now I have the valve...

Looks like a cheap solution. Thanks!

I live in North Texas, and am wondering if it is necessary to insulate my filter pressure relief valve/gauge for the colder months?

I am not as worried about getting through the rebar as I am exposing it to the elements, and then dealing with corrosion issues down the road.

That's the one I was looking at. You do anything to account for rebar, or pretty much just drill and hope?

Has anyone installed one of the DIY fences around their pool? I have a 6 month old boy, so my wife is wanting to look into installing a fence before next pool season. I have been looking at the DIY fence, and it looks fairly straightforward. My only concern is drilling holes 4" into the concrete...

I live up near Highland Village, and I have been purchasing my chlorine at Walmart. The brand is Pool Essentials 10% and it's < $4 per gallon. Worked well so far.

Thanks Jim. I see you live in Bedford...that is where my wife is from, and my in-laws still live there. If you never really backwash, do you never have to charge the filter with more DE? And if I never really do a full backwash, how do I know when to add DE or how much to add? I am pretty sure...

Thanks for the info, Richard. So when you open up the filter and hose it off, do you take the grids out of the housing and disassemble for a thorough cleaning, or do you just hose it off inside the housing? And an unrelated question, how often do you apply lube to the o-rings in the pump lid and...

So my new pool has been opened for about a month now, and everything has gone swimmingly (I am officially a dad now, so I can get away with that joke) following the TFP recommendations from the start. When my pool builder rep was out for pool orientation, he said that I would need to disassemble...

Good to know. Since this Racer was included with my new pool, I will see how it goes and look into possibly upgrading down the road. Afraid my wife would kill me if I proposed spending any more money on the pool at the moment!

So construction finished on my pull last month, and I have been up and running for almost a month now. My pool came with a Pentair Racer pressure side cleaner. I noticed that most of the cleaners I have seen have a tail and nozzle trailing behind. When I asked my pool builder if mine was...

I just purchased a couple of the SwimWays Sonoma Chaise Lounge chairs to serve as our ledge loungers. They are hard plastic, floating loungers, but if you drill a few holes in the bottom, you can fill them with water so they stay in place on the ledge. They were only about $125 ea., and so far...

I have made a lot of visits to the Shawnee Atwoods...born and raised there before I moved to Norman, and then DFW.

I have been brushing the plaster twice a day for a week, and have another week to go with that routine. They gave me the recommended levels for the first 30 days, which I am trying to match...they are not too different from their general recommendations (which are similar to TFP, but with a...

Thanks! He showed me his test results (which pretty well matched mine), and said everything looked good. He did not act concerned about the CH levels. I need to test the fill water, but I have had an above ground spa for a couple of years, and I typically have to add calcium chloride to that...

First off, this forum has been amazing. My new pool was filled two weeks ago, and my anxiety level has been greatly reduced by feeling prepared (somewhat) after spending time on this site every day. I had my pool orientation Tuesday, and the specialist made the comment that he has never had...