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Good point i'll do a test on the fill water with my kit. Thanks for the help!

It adds about an extra $90 to our water bill when we do a full drain and refill.

Thanks! I'm in the Phoenix area but under a different water company that most of metro phoenix, so i dont know, my fill water seems higher. My PPM meter is reading 400 and the last time i drained and refilled it was at 400 when i tested CH after the fill. 615 will get us by. I am looking for a...

CH is over 1000 so just trying to drop that as much as I can. Fill water is hard about 400.

Yes did the 5gal bucket fill with the hose and with the water coming out the pool via the sub pump. Hose fill is pretty slow. Ok thanks i will just shut it off when it gets too low and let the hose catch up. How do i calculate how long i need to run this water exchange for?

I'm currently in the middle of a no drain water exchange, but my subpump is pushing out water a lot faster than my hose is filling. Subpump rate is 20 gal a minute fill rate with my hose is only 6gal minute. I don't want my water level to get too low because it's going to be nearly 100 degrees...

Yes that kind of hose. I guess i could ask the hardware store to cut me a piece of 1 1/4 PVC i can't seem to find anything long enough otherwise. Trying to drain out the old water (high CH), while filling to avoid having the pool empty because I'm in AZ and we're already at 100 degree so not...

I'm trying to do a no drain water exchange but i can't find a backwash hose long enough to attach to my subpump, i need 150ft to get to my sewer drain in the front. Is there a way to attach two 2inch backwash hoses together so they don't leak?

Okay, thanks. I'll watch the weather perhaps we'll get few day break from the heat and i can get a drain done quickly.

I'm less worried about scaling mostly just wanted it to be swimmable for the summer, but i got distracted and here we are mid April and pushing 90+ for several days in a row. The plaster is likely original so i don't want to risk cracking it.

Probably not. I don't know how much longer we'll own this house so I don't think it's really something we want to invest in right now. I guess i'll just watch the weather and see if we get a break from the heat to do a drain. If not, oh well until fall i suppose.

The scaling isn't too bad i had it blasted 2 years ago which was when we drained last. The problem is we're set to be above 90 degrees for the next 10 days so I'm not sure when or if there will be an opportunity to do a full drain. Yes we have a full house water softener but it doesn't connect...

FC - 4 CC - 0 pH - 8 TA - 120 CH - 1075 CYA - not sure i could still fully see the black dot at 30 so this might be low? Water temp - 70 Do i need to partially drain? In Arizona so we have really hard water. Do i need to increase my CYA? I have a very hard time managing my pH i have to add MA...

My husband can check the voltage. Any suggestions for what motor to buy to replace it with that might last longer? We'll just do it ourselves this time rather than pay someone $500 again. Thanks for your help.

I just turned it back on, and it primes up but it sounds really weird, no grinding or rattling just like a low not fully powered motor, and about 5 seconds in starts smoking again.

We bought this house with the pool already built. It's a weird set up but nothing to be done about it. This pool is at least 15 years old. No possibility the drain plug was opened. I'm the only person that manages the pool and I don't open that. But we're in AZ and we have been getting a ton of...

I have a message out to the company that replaced the motor (of course it dies on the weekend). About a month after it was replaced it started making a high pitched noise and i had them come back and look at it. They said it was 'fine' and probably just had something stuck in it, and that was...

Replaced in Jan 2020.

Here's a video of the smoking after i turned it off motor smoking .MOV

I didn't install the motor i had a pool company do it.

I was doing a slam and my motor overheated and tripped the breaker. I turned it back on and it was making a weird noise, higher than normal sound but no grinding or whistling sound. Turned it off, checked the baskets for debris and stuck my hand in to check the impeller, which was moving fine...

My pool has this thing on the landing between the first and third step. I always thought it was exclusively a water feature but is it also an umbrella holder?

I emailed them several weeks ago asking about prices for robots and they never responded. I bought one from Amazon I'm happy with.

No unfortunately not.

I can but when i shut off the overflow from the spa to the pool it shoots the tank pressure up too high. I have the valves set to the least amount of water overflow possible, not sure what else i can do. Seems like a bad design unfortunately.

CH is 800. I have a pretty hard time maintaining an in range pH seems like it jumps every couple of days. I have a lot of aeration unfortunately based on the set up of my pool with a spa attached and a water feature i can't really turn off. I should i guess be adding MA 2x a week to try and...

I tested it using my kit but it wasn't reading any hardness, which is obviously wrong. not sure why. I'll try again. I am getting scaling i had my tile blasted last year and I see scaling.