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Thanks for the encouragement! In addition to Pool Step Specialists, I got a lot of help from a friend and my brother doing the hard physical labor. It's the least I can do to try to help someone else out.

Hi All! I recently had to repair a crack in my thermoplastic steps and I bought a repair kit from Pool Step Specialists. I realized part way through that I was going to need to repair more than the one tread, and Steve graciously sent me an extra kit which ended up being overkill. Ultimately, I...

I plan to do it myself, I'm fairly comfortable figuring these things out and I have a lot of family and friends who can advise...my father-in-law is an electrician. I agree, upgrading to a two gang box is the best solution. I'll also swap out the pump CB for a GFCI version and I noticed the pool...

Correct, the power for the pump and the heater are both running into the junction box. The front of the junction box is a switch, not an outlet, and the pump and heater are both controlled by that single switch so it's all one circuit. The junction box wiring runs underground to the house and...

Ok, just wanted to make sure the risk to the SWG was related to it being powered on and not just being inline as the initial salt was added. Here are additional pictures. Thanks!

The pump is a Hayward 1.5 HP. I believe the heater is wired on the same circuit as the pump, which is why I considered using the heater as the box to tie in since I'm not sure there is room where the pump switch is. The pool is 25,000 gal and I purchased a CircuPool RJ-60 PLUS. I'll go update my...

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not positive exactly what I'm looking at, but I don't see anything that looks like a check valve currently. The pool has been opened for about a month with tabs and the pump running 12 hrs a day, hopefully that hasn't caused too much damage already. Here are pictures of...

Wow, thanks, I did not know that about the inline chlorinator, I wonder if that's what killed the previous heater. I will certainly be removing it ASAP then. Should make the plumbing more simple too, so I like that plan - I will just use a floater as recommended for the future. What is the...

Thanks for the input! I was planning on taking the Nature 2 out for sure, as I shared those concerns - my wife has had green hair from other pools in the past. I had considered leaving the inline chlorinator in so that I could use up chlorine tabs that I have and add CYA that way. I suppose...

Hello All! I'm excited to be a part of the TFP community. I've been lurking for a month or more as I've recently purchased my first home, and with it, my first pool. I'm the type to obsessively learn as much as I can when presented with a new challenge, so I dug through TFP for a few days, then...