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Hello, I have the PB come out twice/year to inspect everything and clean my cartridge filters. Two things happening since his visit yesterday: One, pump won’t stay primed, and two, water is very cloudy (which has never happened following an inspection). The first thing I noticed when I got...

Mystery solved! Apparently when I reset the variable pump speeds, it lowered the default on the water features. I reset them to use the higher speed and everything back to normal. We did look at the filter and they were clean. Thanks to everyone who helped!

Yes, definitely. Now my deepest is only 4.5 ft but definitely clear enough to see heads/tails. We're going to open up and check the filters when I get home.

Help me learn! Do you suspect my low pressure could be due to a chemical imbalance vs debris or dirty filter?

Jim, the water is crystal clear. I test and maintain it, but I also have the PB test the water to confirm my results. I'm not home so can't send a pic right now.

The water is crystal clear.

Thanks, Jim! The filter was cleaned in Dec and was pretty pristine then, could it have gotten that bad since? My pool will be 2 years old next month and I have the pool company come three times since it was finished for filter cleaning and equipment check. Do you think I should check the filter...

Hello! A couple of days ago I noticed more air than usual in the filter basket. Then realized that the water features don’t have their usual pressure. As of today, there’s only a tiny bit of air in filter basket, looks normal. But the water features still lack pressure. (I have three sheer...

TexasEd, sorry I don't know the answer. I have seen threads on running the heater during a freeze, some pros, some cons, so you might start a new thread and/or search the other threads. Good luck, it's already raining hear and hovering just above freezing.

Thanks, JJ_Tex! I'm still debating whether to do it, I think I'm just paranoid after last year and hope to avoid the "Oh s*&t" moment where I have to drain everything as an emergency!

Yes, I never want to do the 2 am thing again. But I'm glad I had the pool builder's voice in my head saying, "If the power goes out, you don't have an hour, do it now!" And he was right, I rushed right out there and by the time I pulled the drain plugs the water was already slushy.

Thanks, Texas Splash! Your note about stagnant water raised another question... do you think I should go ahead and drain equipment now while we still have two warmish days before the freeze in hopes any remaining water will evaporate?

Hello! Background: Last year during the Texas “snowmageddon” event my power went out at 2 am and it was well below freezing, near 0 degrees. I went immediately and drained all my equipment. I already had bottles filled w/ rocks in the skimmers to prevent freezing. Four days later when I had...

Record Texas freeze! We drained the equipment at 2 am when the power first went out (what fun!). Now what? Do we just let the pool freeze solid? The rolling power outages are going to continue. It's 7 degrees F now and not supposed to get back above freezing until Friday. We have about 3/4" ice...

Hey, thanks everyone for the replies. A few mins after I posted I updated to say there was water in it, it was just so clear I wouldn't see it! So all is good!

Just filled the pool and the pool guy started the equipment yesterday. While he was here I looked at the filter pump and there was water swirling around. Now, 24 hours later, with the pump running, I noticed there's no water in it. There is some debris. Should I be concerned? It says "Do not run...

Thanks, I'll confirm.

Hi Jim! Our contract says Jandy 60 Sq Ft DE filter. They haven't broken down the prices on anything. I've just asked for individual prices of everything we've chosen that's not included in the base rate. He hasn't told me the cartridge filter model, I just know it's Jandy and sized for our...

Hi, Thanks to great advice here from Jim Rahbe and others, we've decided to go with a cartridge filter vs the DE filter and backwash line our PB was originally planning. Here's my question... everything I've read seems to indicate that the initial price of the cartridge filter equipment is less...

Hi, thanks for the info. I haven't heard of the cartridge option, but am definitely going to read up on it now. Was it expensive to add that option?

Thank you for shedding some light on the process! So sounds like we'll lose more sprinklers than I thought, but hopefully it won't be too bad with the dogs. Thanks again!

Has anyone else had a trench dug to tie into the city sewer line? I thought the digging would be limited to my back (behind the house) yard, but just learned they are going to be digging a trench down our side yard and into the front yard! (Just learned about this yesterday in our first...

That's what I was afraid of. :-(

Wow, I sure hope that's the case where we are!! Thank you!

So we just found out that the electric line is too close to the water's edge, so we're probably going to have it rerouted as we don't have much wiggle room to change the location of the pool in our small yard. Does anyone have any idea of the cost to reroute the main electric line?

bdavis466 you are awesome, thank you for the info and for the pics. We're going to consider adding a light to the tanning deck instead. About lighting... Our pool is going to be small, 13' by 24 of 25', and currently the design only has two lights, so the tanning deck would be the third. Seems...

Hi, thanks so much for the input! As a total newbie, I want to make sure I understand your suggestion. I read in the other thread you linked to that you recommend a light perpendicular to the bubbler. But then I don't understand the venturi tee suggestion, are you saying use that to run electric...

We're building a pool with a tanning/baja deck and want a lighted bubbler. Our pool builder is great with doing a bubbler, but clearly doesn't want to do a LIGHTED bubbler - but so far we're not getting a clear answer as to why not! If you have a lighted bubbler are you happy with it? Would...