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I use milk jugs filled 3/4 of the way with water and tie them all the way around the cover. This gives it tension but won't pull on the pool itself. Heavy snow will push the cover down but when it thaws, the jugs add enough tension to tighten the cover back up and drain the water off.

Water buildup on my winter pool cover has always driven me crazy. Last fall, I inflated about 15, 36" yoga balls and floated them in my pool and put the cover over those. I keep my pool completely full with a skimmer plug so it basically tents the cover. The balls for the most part allowed the...

Thank you so much!! That's what it was. It's running flawlessly now.

I am having an issue with getting air out of my system/keeping the pump primed. I added a solar controller this spring so I did adjust the plumbing from last year but I don't see how that could be causing the issue. I have checked all the connections and used silicone grease on the gaskets to...

My old pool was a 12' Intex pool so it was smaller but I did the same thing. I put wood blocks under the legs and had no issues. That being said, I would definitely check them periodically for any movement. My two kids used to get that 12' pool looking like a wave pool and the legs never came...

Hi, I had to refill my pool this spring, 11,000 gallons, and my PH is reading 7.6 but my TA is 400. I filled the pool from my well that has hard water. I looked up lowering the TA but it seems like it would take a dangerous amount of muriatic acid to get it down. Thoughts?

Never thought of doing them parallel. Does anyone have any pictures of how they plumbed theirs in parallel? I'm going to look at mine tomorrow and start drawing out how I could do it but some existing setup photos may help.

I've attached a diagram that shows how I have my solar panels plumbed. The panels are 4' off the ground on the high side and about 1' off the ground on the low side. The intake for the solar panels is at the same level as the intake to the pool. I no longer run two pumps. I had that on my old...

Hi, I just invested in a Pentair solar controller and while it is being shipped, I changed the plumbing from my pump to get ready to install it. When I did a manual test run, my flow rate dropped dramatically. Before, the flow into the pool was almost as strong as a hot tub jet. I couldn't even...

Finished up the fix yesterday. I added gravel and paver blocks to each side support and then packed them with the dirt/sand mixture to get rid of any voids. The next step was to try and fix where the pressure plate was creating a rather sharp ridge under the liner. I used a piece of wood with...

As promised, here are some photos of the fix. I ran out of daylight so it will be finished tomorrow but this shows the progress. You can see the amount of bowing out and how much the legs leaned outward in the one photo. I drained the pool down to about a foot of water and then dug around the...

Sorry it took a day to get these photos. The weather here has been less than favorable. One shows where I connected an intex hose to a pvc valve with slip fittings that converted to threaded and then to barbed for the hose. The other picture shows where I extended the hose using a barbed...

I did this on my own setup. Get a 2" to 1 1/2" pvc slip reducer and an 1 1/2" insert adapter. Then screw on an 1 1/2" female barbed adapter. The key is to cut the cuff off the Intex hose. Once you do that, the hose will slide onto the barbed adapter and just use a stainless hose clamp. All of...

I have often wondered if a solar controller would be worth the investment...I'm pretty sure you just convinced me. That would make things much easier. Thanks!

Last year, I tied my solar heat in with my pool pump eyeball fitting. I had very strong warm water coming from the combined pool filter pump with the solar pump injecting warm water into the pool filter line. The only downfall is that I had to manually shut off a valve if I didn't want water...

Mine bows out about approximately 1 to 2.5" in comparison to the bottom. I attached an image that kind of shows it. I still have the winter cover on and I haven't fixed it yet since Ohio is taking its time warming up. I'll be tackling this in the next few weeks though. My plan is to drain the...