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    Skimmer clog?

    So my skimmer line was clogged. I was able to use a drain king and I thought it was unclogged. The skimmer line has good pressure but when I hook up the vaccum it loses all pressure unless i open the main drain. I tried flushing out the line again with no results. Any suggestions?
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    Skimmer line clogged?

    So I had the coping repaired in the pool and I thought I got all the chunks of coping with leaf net but I guess I didnt. So skimmer is running fine but wont vaccum. I tried to free the debris by opening and closing skimmer valve 4 or 5 times and it wont unclog. I took the valve off and it's...
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    Cleaning the pool with const debris in it

    So the pool company came and replaced some wavy coping the bottom of the pool has a lot of dirt and pieces of coping. I have a cartridge filter so what is the best way to vaccum this up seeing how I cant backwash it?
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    1st at home test

    So I got the taylor k-2006. My numbers are FC-14 Cc- 0 Ph-8.0 Ch- 380 Cya- 70 Salt- 3400 I bumped my chlorinator up to 80% output on Sunday due to pool store reading saying I had a 0 fc reading. I just bumped it back down to 40%... any suggestions?
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    Alkalinty vs ph?

    So I have a new pool and have been having problems balancing the chemicals. The pool was built and filled in early February and the swg was installed at the end of March. I have been having thr pool store test my water which I now know is a no no. I ordered a test kit but wont recieved it to...
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    New member

    I stumbled upon this site looking for info advice on water chemistry in my new pool that has been a nightmare from the building process to the pool company overaslting the pool when they hooked the chlorinator up. I have been relying on the pool store to test my water and following there...