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Drained about 3" of water from the pool today. A series of rain storms had raised the water level to the top of the skimmer. The chemical level have all decreased a little bit. Nothing real urgent needs to be taken care of. Right now I'm having persistently high FC levels. I keep lowering the...

How old is the hose? With age, it can get cracks between the corrugations in the hose. Also, it can get small holes in the ribs as it is unrolled and rolled on the deck before putting it in the water. You could try having someone get in the pool and hold the hose below the surface of the water...

You got lucky. The target FC for my pool is 5-10 ppm. If I were to take a sample into my pool store with a 5 ppm FC, the pool store employee would have a worried look on their face and would try to sell me a magic potion to reduce my FC down to 1 ppm.

It would have sprayed water on the person you hired. Then they would have charged a bunch of money to repair it. I would remove the screws and remove the gasket. Inspect it's condition and check for any dirt or sand on the gasket or in the gasket channel. Relube the gasket with pool lube and...

I'm having a problem with the TFP recommended levels are just fine part of your post. TFP recommended levels for a fiberglass pool with SWG is 350-550 ppm for ideal levels. For acceptable minimum level, it's 250-350 ppm. That does not jive with the calcium is not important advice that is often...

The main problem I see is if the leak is at the floor drain. Then the pool won't stabilize until it is empty which isn't a good thing to do with a liner.

My robot fits perfectly in a deck box. Suncast 22 gal. Deck Box With Seat SSW600J - The Home Depot

My reel for my solar cover scoots across the deck when I try to unroll the cover. Over the years, I prevented this by placing a bag of play sand on the legs at each end of the reel. The sand works great at keeping the reel in place. The issue is that the UV from the sun degrades the bag and it...

Are you just replacing a part here and there? Have you tried rebuilding the whole cleaner? I had a Polaris 360. I would buy a factory rebuild kit that replaced every part but the frame. It was not cheap but still a lot cheaper than a new cleaner.

I agree. Sometimes it seems like such a big uphill battle against the manufacturers. How do you convince people we know better than the company that makes the SWG? Right on top of the IC40 in big letters it's written "Acid Clean Every 3 Months".

I added a 10 lb bucket of calcium chloride to the pool yesterday. CH went from 150 ppm to 200 ppm. FC now at 8.5 ppm. I did an early season mistake today. I turned on the natural gas heater and walked away. When I came back a few hours later, I noticed it wasn't running. I had forgotten to open...

I'm glad I only put 3 bags instead of 4 bags of salt in the pool. Water tested at 3600 ppm today.

I assume you are talking about a flexible hose. I just use a hose clamp. All you need is the clamp and a screwdriver. You can either do it on the 3" pipe or on a section of 2" pipe you glue to the reducer in the @ajw22 link.

What didn't I do to the pool today? Heat it. What did I do to the pool today? - remove the safety cover and put it in storage - remove the Loop-Loc anchors, clean and lube them, and screw down flat - vacuum the pool - backflush twice during vacuuming - use hand net to skim floating debris -...

1. Actually I have not made a decision. Part of me wants to install it myself because I'm cheap and because it appeals to the tinkering engineer side of me. If I do hire it out, I may consider Leslie if I stick with Pentair. I have talked to someone at Leslie before and he has a list of local...

I have several decisions to make. First decision is do I want to install the filter myself or hire it out. I can buy any brand if I install it myself. If I hire it out, I lean towards buying a Hayward filter. The reason is that I have a good relationship with a pool builder and supply place...

This post is about switching from sand filter to a cartridge filter. Let's get some preliminaries out of the way. I've owed two pools since 1996 with sand filters so I'm quite knowledgeable on their operation. I am familiar with cartridge filters even though I've never owned one. I'm not trying...

I had a heat pump at my old house and a natural gas heater at the current house. As for the cost added to run the heat pump, I have no idea and it would be difficult to determine that cost. That's because it is also the time of year when we start using the AC and I had two units on the house...

North Carolina has the same 10% for $5.67 at Walmart. Also is it a good idea to list membership clubs, especially if there are non-membership stores with low prices. BJs was the only store listed for NC and a good portion of the state does not have a local one. The long drive to a BJs would...

If you put a value on your labor, stain is cheap compared to labor. I would wait until you can do a good job on it. I hope you are using a quality stain. When I paint a room in my house, I buy the best paint that I can. I don't settle for their lower grades of paint. Since I value my labor, I...

I didn't do anything to the pool today. The air temperature is 84F today. It is so tempting to pull the cover, vacuum the pool and fire up the heater. But the forecast for Tuesday is a high of 57F, low of 43F, and 60% chance of rain. That's what it does every spring here in NC. It gives you a...

Let's not forget the gympie gympie plant.

I've never been able to vacuum to waste. In the spring, there is fine dirt and pollen in the bottom of the pool that's filtered through the mesh safety cover by rains. Being that it's fine in size, I have to move the vacuum head slowly across the bottom. If I rush, it gets stirred up. I can't...

Have you considered vacuuming the old fashioned way by vacuuming through your skimmer using a vacuum hose and vacuum head on an extension pole? Put a hairnet or skimmer sock in the skimmer basket to catch all the worms you vacuum up.

I still have my safety cover installed and the water temperature is still increasing. Today it is 69F. I turned on the equipment 9 days ago when the water temperature was 58F.

I didn't do anything to the pool but I did replace the batteries in my magnetic stirrer. The pill was starting to wiggle instead of spin.

Here is one for Merlin covers. https://poolcoversdirect.com/merlin-serial-number-examples/

Look for a serial number attached to the cover. For Loop-Loc, if you give them that number, they can reproduce the cover. Other manufacturers probably do the same thing. Here is an example of one: https://poolcoversdirect.com/loop-loc-serial-number-example/loop-loc-serial-number-example2/

I agree. It looks like the inlet and outlet were cut once before and the techs didn't bother putting in unions. I'm being kind. I actually think they purposely didn't put in unions so you would be more likely to call them to do the work again. If they had used unions, you would need to hire them...

Pollen season is just starting. It's not yet at it's peak. Here are some photos.