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Well, Chip wasn't doing anything no matter what we tried while spinning in circles. He's been sent back after waiting for an appropirate sized Amazon box to show up, was received today, and I'm anxiously waiting for him to come back and clean my pool! I used to think skimming was calming. Maybe...

Chip, our Betta2, started spinning in circles this week. I've read this whoooole thread 😅 and it seems like a possible temporary fix is to remove the props, spray the heck out the inside, and WD-40 things up? Anything else I'm missing? In retrospect, I feel like I noticed that he was running a...

I mean, I don't *need* both. We were fine with the Polaris and brushing, vacuuming, and skimming manually before. It was just annoying -- but most of the annoyingness to me was the skimming. A robot army is pretty nice, though, and once fall arrives I'll love Dale's expensive self even more than...

Thanks for sharing MyAZPool's thread, @Katodude - it confirmed we're not total dummies! We started trying the thing where we pull Dale to the side of the pool each morning, leave him in the water but loop his cord on the deck and let him pull it in when he runs in the evening a few days ago and...

I just saw a post on Facebook on a pool page where someone put pool noodles over their cord to keep it from tangling. I wonder if that might work -- the pool noodles would be a bigger object for the skimmer to want to avoid, and float the cord so the skimmer couldn't go over it as easily. Does...

Chip (Betta skimmer) and Dale (Dolphin Explorer E30), our rescue robots, are fantastic individually but together they just can't quite get along. Is there a way for both of them to be in the pool at the same time so Chip doesn't get hung up on Dale's power cord? My initial thought was to devise...

Thank you so much! I totally forgot about Marina.

We snagged the above robot a few weeks ago and it's been fantastic. That said, I think we'd like to buy the ultrafine filters because we're struggling with some pollen. When I look on the Maytronics website their filters section only has a link to Amazon. And when I go to Amazon, I don't see the...

Thanks much for your help, y'all! :)

So, the pool light has a switch in our house that we use to turn the light on and off. And we thought we'd either put one of the lounge chairs over the junction box or a side table over it so nobody bangs into it. This isn't like touch it and get zapped kind of voltage, more like don't open it...

Hey y'all! We've decided to take our diving board out -- it's in prime lounge chair real estate, it's cracked, and we don't use it. It's no longer to code but grandfathered in so we can't (legally) install a new one down the road, but we're OK with that. I feel like I read somewhere that...

Hi! I'm researching cleaning robots for our pool and I think one of the above is the way I want to go. From what I've read these are all the same with the exception of the color scheme. Is that right? Am I missing any other models of the same robot? I've done the research about what features I...

Thank you for that link! I'd seen The Physics of thread way back when but I'd forgotten about it. I'll have husband look at itso he can reassure me eleventy billion times that it'll be ok. :LOL:

Hi y'all! This past summer we bought a house with a pool in Portland, OR and are first time pool owners. It doesn't have a cover, and according to the pool service the previous owners didn't close the pool in winter. Apparently in years past it was easy to manage by running the pump for a few...

Oh! We actually have a backup generator. I keep forgetting about that which is why I alternate between being super nervous about doing it when I remember the horror stories from my friends in Texas last winter, and then much more OK with it. 😅 I grew up in the midwest so I know the freezing...

Hmmm . . . so it's definitely possible, then. We're certainly warmer than Ohio -- our coldest months are December - February, and even then it's usually highs of mid-40s, lows in the mid-30s. I assume algae growing potential slows down with cooler temperatures and the general PNW gloominess...

Y'all I'm not ready for pool season to end! We're in Portland, OR and our pool person said in previous years it worked well to run the pump for a couple of hours each day, add chemicals as needed, and vacuum/brush/skim because our pool doesn't have a cover. If we're doing all of that is it...

Thanks Newdude! :)

Hey y'all! We're heading out of town for a week tomorrow. Should we get it to shock level today or do it tomorrow morning (we'll have time)? Also, how long do we need to wait to test after adding chlorine to make sure we've hit shock level?

That's good to know! We've got a million other house projects we want to tackle once the other house sells, but I'll keep this on our to-do list. A couple more questions: We're going away for a week over Labor Day. I've seen people suggest raising their pool to SLAM levels, tossing in a few...

Oh, I'm sorry! I should have clarified -- we completed our first SLAM this week. We successfully passed all 3 tests mid-week. To be extra sure, we kept the pool at SLAM levels for an extra day or two and made sure we had two back-to-back successful OCLTs. Now that it's over we're wondering how...

Hi Truly Fantastic People! So, I finally have more info about our pool after meeting with the pool person this week. We've found out that we have a 15-20k gallon white plaster pool that was probably built with or around the time the house was built, in 1963. Husband and I were compromising with...

OK, cool! I'm going to test during halftime of the soccer game. I figure by the time husband gets home it'll be about an hour or so later and it'll give us our night reading. No SWG. We haven't had our pool equipment crash course yet, but we're both sure of that much. :)

It went from 22 to 19.5 overnight. Husband guesstimates it's dropping about 1/2 ppm every hour or so -- it's about 90, sunny with sun on the pool for a decent part of the day, and we swam in it for awhile. We've only had to add 2 gallons of 10% today, but yesterday was at least 5 or 6 gallons...

Hey y'all, I've got a SLAM question. Our FC level is supposed to be 20, and we've found out that it takes 1 gallon of liquid chlorine to bring it up by about 3ppm. What we've been debating about is the plan when we do a test and the level is like, 17. Do we add just one gallon to get it to 20...

It's very clear, and we can definitely see the bottom. We're just having a stupid heatwave and it'd be nice to enjoy it. I'm glad we'll be able to.

Great, thanks! Are we able to use the pool during SLAM?

Morning y'all! Post and run since I'm at work, but can you confirm that we need to slam? Last night's FC (9pm) was 5.5. This mornings numbers (615am) FC 3.5 Calcium 325 Alkalinity 90 Cya 50 Pump was run at least 30 mins before each test. Thanks!

See? This is why I'm asking -- I had no idea they were just drop in and didn't have the same sort of equipment pools do, haha! 😅 There's so much to learn and so little time when doing the eleventy billion things that come along with a new house and getting the other on the market.