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Well, tis time again in the north. Had the water trucked in yesterday, 13,500 gallons to my 25,000 gallon pool. I continue to have a leak during the winter behind the lights as the water level stops right at the halfway point of the lights. I'll fix that once the water get's warmed up. Added...

Bumping this back up. Just did a clean and refill today. Used Ahhsome to clean, sucked out all the excess water and rinsed a bit. New water from hose that uses a whole home metal filter, but it's before the water softener (we have well water). Worked on getting Alk and pH down, added a touch...

I've been working on reducing the iron in it each year via large refills from a truck (though I'm not convince their water has no iron vs it has been treated and thus tests as no iron); and I did the poly trick when the water was brown. That's not my issue today, the water is clear and the iron...

Need some help understanding why my liner is wrinkling pretty badly. It has several long wrinkles across the short side in the areas that slopes to the deep end. It also has wrinkles in the corners. We bought this house three years ago with the pool included and until this year the liner had...

Hey gang. My pool always has a bit of iron in it. I got it mostly under control, but over time I get a bit of staining on the pool steps, lights, jet fittings and skimmer area. Water looks great and has been running well for months with no issues. The last time I though I'd just use a tiny...

Hey group. We have a Master Spa, Clarity 7 we bought three years ago. We have not had many issues with it, other than forgetting to add chlorine when we don't use it (I need to look into a salt system). I just refilled the spa yesterday, did the normal line flush treatment, vacuumed it out...

I'll have to wait to open it up until tomorrow. It's high of 40 with rain/snow today. I don't want to break something and risk freezing. So, when an exchanger goes bad it just starts leaking? No big blow outs or risks of anything worse?

Thanks for that. I'll dig into it tomorrow and take pictures. However, this thread has similar pics, except the flaking on my (which was the same tubes being what I believe are the outflow tubes) were dark brown / metallic looking. Not even slightly white. They feel like flakes of rust...

Thanks. We don't have any automation whatsoever. I don't even have a timer (but I'm working on that). I'm not sure I need to be able to change the temp on my phone though. I can just walk five feet and do it. What happens when a heat exchanger fails? Does it burst and water goes...

If I were going to do a replacement, is getting the same unit the right idea? Or is there a better solution for a home, in ground 18x36 pool with a SWG and well water?

Update: Estimate to replace heat exchanger: $1650 plus $392 labor. $2180 total with a bypass valve install. Versus $3554 for a completely new heater. OR... $1200 for the exchanger online and I'd have to figure out how to install it myself?

According to the receipts the prior owner left me, its a Rheem 266 w/Cupro Nickel Exchanger. $2500 installed in 2016. I didn't get a picture of it opened up. EDIT: although the pool guy said it was copper, so I don't really know about the exchanger. That could have been an invoice / estimate...

Hey group. Hoping someone can check the advise I got from the pool company. We have an inground pool with a pool heater. The heater was making a squealing sound so I called out the pool maintenance company. They showed me that the pump was very hot to the touch and they opened up the heat...

Update: added the Metal Magic around 6:00 PM yesterday. Pool is crystal today. Few more hours and I'll start slowly adding a half gallon of chlorine and turn the SWG on low. FC - 0 CC - 0 pH - 7.3 Alk - 150 Calc - 150 CYA - 0 Salt - 1800 (per test - not SWG) Temp 70 My alk was always a bit...

And, the pool is filled with water again. The water level was low down to the top of the lights, which I'm sure means a leak behind the lights, again. I added Polyquat and ascorbic acid, got the system up and running (SWG unplugged), vacuumed (but not brushed as my brushed was left out and is...

I assume a random night or two below 32 is okay so long as the filer is running 24/7, right? Every year in late April / early May we will have at least one cold snap with snow.

Weather here is going to be in the mid to upper 70s this week. Then back down to upper 50s lower 60s next, and likely another cold week or two before the weather breaks for the season. I think I'll need to open my pool this week then, right?

I have an in ground pool in Ohio with a simple on off switch, heater, salt system. I’m thinking about getting a timer that will run the pump like 15 hrs a day instead of 24 to save on costs a bit. Of course I know there is a balance before having water quality issues. Are you all in fan of a...

Thanks. I have a five gallon bucket filled with polyfill rigged to a submersible pump I used before that did seem to help. Albeit very slowly and it's a pain to get the polyfill out to rinse without dumping the iron back into the pool. The DE filter seemed to capture a bit too.

Hey all, Last two years I had a company open the pool up, but they never dealt with the iron in our water. This year I'd like to do it myself to get it right. We have high iron in our pool from prior years. Last year we had it filled from a truck that supposedly has no iron, but I'm not...

Thanks. That is what I was doing, but I stopped for the night. I was reading about borates, I'll have to check that out further.

This morning the water is clear again. PH still way too high. FC - 5 TA - 70-80 PH - 8.3

Retested the tub water using the TFP kit. Alk around 110-120 ph 8.0 (using meter - I'm going to recalibrate to check though) I've been running the jets to offset the drops form the MA additions. FC around 5.0 CH between 225 and 250 (blue vs very blue color) Still cloudy / greyish looking. vs...

I'll check the CH. Tub water running around 7.8-8.0 ph and 220 alk. I've been working to lower that as I type using MA and need to retest the alk. Source water was around 7.8 ph and 240 alk. Water was cloudy this morning when I opened it. No jets running. It's not the typical where it...

Thanks. I have purchased and use muriatic acid for the salt water pool. I thought the dry stuff was okay for the hot tub, but I just ran out so I'll just use MA from now on. I do have the TFP test kit and use that mostly. But, for a quick FC check on the hot tub I use the strips. I always...

Help. I have an inground pool and a MasterSpa hot tub. I've never had any issues with keeping good water in my hot tub, until recently. My hot tub water is super cloudy, like milk white cloudy. I tried to increase the FC level for a while thinking it was some algae bloom. I tried to reduce...

My water is greenish brown due to iron, which I can't do anything about until SLAM is finished. Unless I'm wrong but I need to get the FC level way down before adding sequestrant.

Test this morning: FC - 11 CC - 0.5 CYA - 50 (it's between 40 and 50, closer to 40 but I think I still count that as 50 right?) Added 1 gallon liquid chlorine 12.5% Pool is clearing up on it's own with no sequestrant agent. Shallow end has a slight greenish brown tint and the deep end I can...

Decided to keep on the SLAM and worry about iron once finished. Last night 9pm FC 10.0 CC 0.5 This morning 7:21am FC 9.0 (note SWG is running so this doesn't count for OCLT) CC 0.5 CYA 30 added 1/2 gallon liquid chlorine which should get up around FC 12. added 2 lbs of dry stabilizer...

Test results from yesterday. They are also in my PoolMath logs. 6 PM FC - 11.0 CC - 0.5 10 PM FC - 7.5 CC - 0.5 7AM (this morning) (Note I have the SWG running as I wasn't really doing an OCLT) FC - 6.0 CC - 0.5 So what do I do now? Continue with a SLAM and leave the brown water until I...