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Hey y'all. I have a Warrior SE, and have recently bought a used Ariel skimmer on eBay. Overall, I LOVE the combination. I swear when it was new, my Warrior would keep EVERYTHING clean, but now it doesn't seem to clean as well as it once did. Maybe it's in my head, but there are always a few...

Hey y'all. I live in SC,and we have a 20x40 in ground vinyl liner pool. Not this past fall but the previous fall we put a new liner in. I've been maintaining this pool for 5 or 6 years now, and it came with a nice safety cover that has the spring loaded anchors in the concrete deck around it...

I found someone I like to replace our liner. Our pool is 20x40 and the price is $4900. I don't think that was too bad. It was interesting to see the pool under the liner. The bottom is concrete, the walls are fiberglass. He said he's never seen a pool like it. I have photos that won't...

I removed my booster pump a long while back, rewired it for 110v use and put a 110v 20 amp plug on the end of it, so that I could use it for other things (I was using a robot and no longer using the pressure cleaner). I'm now probably going to buy a pressure cleaner and go back to that. Is...

Hey y'all! I will get my liner replaced this fall/winter, and I have a few questions. A) What should I expect it to cost. The pool is 20x40, 30,000 gal, and approximately 3' and 8' deep. There are only two places local ish to me that I know of to do it, but they both come highly recommended...

Hi y'all. My pool was once serviced by a Polaris Rover and a booster pump. It has a dedicated Rover line plumbed in, and had a booster pump when I took over this pool. I have since removed the booster from the plumbing, and rewired it for 110v with a plug for use elsewhere. I still have the...

I have a Pentair Warrior SE bought in June of 2020 (so just out of warranty) that is no longer working. It starts its initial test sequence, goes forward and reverse, pauses, then shuts down. I've had this happen a few times that was due to hair being wrapped around the prop on the pump. I...

Last year I built my mom a stock tank pool with an 8' round stock tank from tractor supply, and boy does she love it. I convinced her to buy the tf100 test kit AND the magnetic stirrer like I use, but she absolutely won't use it. She just gets lazy about it and never actually does it. She...

One of my other "hobbies" is lawn care. I use sand to level and top dress my centipede grass, in hopes of having a very nice, smooth lawn in a few years that I can mow lower than I do right now. I need to be very careful of the PH of my sand. If it happened to come from limestone it could be...

I'm starting to consider the possibility of adding a pool heater to my setup at some point. I don't think it will be this year, I have a carport to build, but maybe next. Once I get an idea though it's hard for me to leave it alone until I have it figured out. This is a 30,000 gallon in ground...

My first thoughts for our hot tub (8' round) were just for me to throw out Warrior SE into it for 30 min or so occasionally when it needs to be cleaned. I've done it once and it works great, but I have begun to wonder if the hot water may shorten the life of the robot. Does anybody know that...

My wife and I read a while back about people using stock tanks to build a hot tub. We mentioned building our own kind of jokingly. Well, about a month ago my wife says, "When you gonna build my hot tub?" (Me) "You serious?" "Yes!" SAY NO MORE! 😆 I spent a little time reading through some...

I'm working on building us a stock tank hot tub/pool. Based on what I can find in the NEC (not that I'm incredibly familiar with it) this pool doesn't necessarily qualify to need bonding. It's well below 42" and I think whether it would be considered portable is a grey area. It could well be...

We have a big, heavy, mesh cover that has always been used to cover our pool. There are spring loaded things that pop up from the patio around the pool that the cover attaches to. It's very nice and it works well, but it's a pain to use and to store. Last year when we removed it the pool was...

Hi all, I love my Warrior SE. It was money well spent. However, it frequently gets hung up on one of my main drains. Almost every time I go out to the pool it's parked on top of one. I believe it's getting hung up part way through a cleaning cycle and never getting off. Anything I can do...

I have a friend with an AGP who doesn't really know anything about it. Something with the electrical has been broken that he's just gotten repaired. It's a murky green mess right now. It's a salt pool. I asked him about his chlorine generator, and told him to keep the pump on 24/7 and turn his...

Hey guys and gals, Do any of you have an old slide? This one is probably 30 years old. The gel coat is oxidized and completely worn through in places. We use a little squirt of dish soap here and there of we really want to get some speed on it 😂. These days, though, I wonder about what that...

Hey y'all. I have these two "bubbles" that have popped up underneath my liner. My research says that this is generally due to water under the liner floating up. The wrinkles in the liner have been there as long as I remember, supposedly they didn't do the best job installing it. The wrinkles...

I just bought myself a pool devil pro return jet skimmer. I read a few posts on here that spoke highly of it. I have a relatively large pool with only one skimmer port. Ultimately I want a robot, but I figure that for now if I can skim better it will keep the pool bottom cleaner without...

As I get up to speed with my pool testing and chemical additions the "tfp" way, sort of the last frontier for me in making this pool really easy to maintain is, you guessed it, an automatic pool cleaner! I have a "Vingli", which seems to be an Amazon knockoff of the Barracuda G3. It works, as...

I have these two spots in the liner sagging down. My wife's granddad, who gave us this pool, has some molding that is supposed to hold it in place. He wants me to pull the liner back up and fix it. It has been that way at least a year and doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it seems to aggravate...

Just got into a little bit of a (mild) argument with the wife about the time I'm spending with the pool. "I started testing the pool when she could also just run a sample up to the pool store for free." I get home from work and then I have to go out to the pool for a bit instead of helping...

Hi guys. So we have some very mature Leland Cypresses around our pool. The privacy they afford us is fantastic, especially since our pool is in the middle of a block that's right in the middle of town. Boy do they make a mess though! Anybody ever put a net or something up between trees/pool to...

Moved from here. Not to argue with you, but I find conflicting information here and there. One source says to check cya at a glance, one says to stare for several seconds. Also, my testing kit recommended doing all testing indoors for best accuracy, but other places state we should do it...

So, I was researching Stenner pumps, which led me down a rabbit hole looking at DIY liquid chlorine pumps. My favorite is still the 110v $25 pump that it looks like several folks have used with success! I started thinking (sometimes that's bad), I have an old methanol injection system I pulled...

I'm a little ashamed to admit this, but I haven't bought very much bleach, ever. When I have I didn't pay the price much attention. Doesn't matter much at the rate of maybe 5 or 10 bottles over 30 years right? Lol Anyway, my question is, what's a fair price to expect to pay for bleach per...

I have some air bubbles flowing through my filter basket. I know that the valve to select between my main drain and the skimmer port has an air leak, I can clearly hear it when the pump is off sucking air into it. I'm not sold that this is the only air leak I have on the suction side, but I...

Hi folks! I have recently inherited a very nice in ground pool from my wife's grand dad. We're located in South Carolina for reference. It's 30,000 gallons, in ground with a liner. Your typical rectangular shallow on one end, deep end on the other. It uses a 3/4 HP Hayward pump. My wife grew...