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Hey everyone. I have found since moving to the Las Vegas desert that anything plastic gets brittle and is subject to breaking within a couple of years depending on the particular plastic resin and thickness. This happens even if said plastic item isn't ever exposed to sunlight. (It's happened...

I have a Pentair Clean & Clear 420 and the air bleeder screen (Pentair part #190106Z) has become squashed. No idea how. Is there any benefit to restoring its domed shape either using some kind of tool or replacing it?

Hey everyone. I just replaced my MasterTemp 400's thermistor in March (old one was reading 126F so was definitely bad) and this one has been working fine all season until this week when the heater started cycling on and off within the span of a few minutes, now down to a few seconds! The temp...

I live in a hot and hard water area of the country. Fill water is 275ppm CH, 7.4 pH, 160 ppm TA as tested from my aerated kitchen faucet (running really slowly to minimize aeration.) Since I now have an SWG (and a calcium ring on the spa tiles,) I'm trying to keep CSI slightly negative (by...

Here's a strange one for you: Ever since I installed my SWG about a month ago (and brought the salt level to 4050ppm,) if I'm in the pool for about 45 minutes, my feet start to wrinkle on the bottom. One night we had friends over in the hot tub chatting for hours and my feet wrinkled so hard it...

So I finally installed my new VS pump which I currently have set to stop during the most expensive hours of the day, leaving the physical timer always on. Problem is that the SWG is also connected to this timer so is also now always on and I'm relying on its flow switch to stop it when the pump...

Hey all. 21K pool, had CYA at 30 for a few weeks as I was SLAMing. Once finished, I added 5 lbs of dry stabilizer which said on the package that it was 99% or so CYA. Added it in a sock by a return jet and massaged the sock so it would dissolve quickly. Tested a couple days later expecting...

Hello everyone. I'm toward the end of a SLAM at the point where the water tests good, low FC loss overnight, but is still quite cloudy. We've had rain on and off the past few weeks so that sets me back a bit each time. I figure I have another 1-2 weeks of 24/7 filtration to get rid of the...

Hello everyone. I started SLAMing my pea soup pool about two weeks ago. At the time my CYA was 20, which though low, was nice to not need as much chlorine, (especially since I've so far gone through about 25 gallons!) I have some trichlor tablets left over (enough in total to raise CYA by about...

Hello everyone. I'm completely re-plumbing my equipment pad because: I just got a new VSP and it doesn't line up to the old pump I'm adding a SWCG The heater could be rotated for shorter pipe distance Unfortunately due to no room to splice in pipe by the pump (looks like it had been...

Hey everyone. I want to replace my pump, but the new one says it needs a longer straight section of pipe immediately before the inlet than I currently have. The problem is that there doesn't appear to be enough space to attach an(other) coupling. Here's what I have now: What do you all...

Hello everyone. After reading tons on this site, and considering the fact that I live in a desert, I'd like to install a SWCG. But I couldn't find a conversion howto, so does that mean the installation manuals tell everything I need to know? I've been using 10% sodium hypochlorite the past...

Hello everyone. Been lurking here for awhile and now have my own questions. I currently have a single-speed pump that uses a lot of electricity and is oversized for running just the spa. (I get a ~10 PSI increase when I close off all supply lines except the 5 spa jets that are fed from a single...