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Hi everyone, First, thank you for your replies and my apologies for the delayed response; while we don’t live on the East side or right in the city anymore, the weekend after creating this post was obviously a trying time here in Buffalo and I paused the pool and pump install for a week as my...

All of the lines into the house are closed and I don’t have a skimmer. I already have plans for ball valves just before and just after the pump to avoid this in the future.

Hello, I’m back with my janky pool setup for another summer here in Buffalo and have encountered yet another head scratcher with our now second year-new to us pool. Some may recall my setup from last winter when attempting to close the pool before the snow and the trouble encountered with...

I’d rather buy and return an item to Amazon at this rate than give more money to a pool company to listen to them complain again and to be only the 3rd time they’ve even seen the pool; it’s not like they maintained it previously, so it can’t be rocket science if two guys showed up and could...

Hello, Any suggestions here? I closed the pool as much as I could with really only the lines and pump basket left, but I still can’t get the pump to stop spilling water all over, so I’m thinking I’ll either need to bite the bullet on one of these cyclone blowers or an air compressor...

Thank you for the welcome and reply Texas Splash! I’ll add some images shortly and to my first post if I can edit after the fact. To answer your questions, please find my replies below. 1) I do have winterizing plugs, at least I think I do. They’re rubber type stoppers with a wingnut on the...

Hello, I’m hoping the forum can help with my issue and appreciate anyone who reads my post and offers advice. My fiancé and I bought our first home last year and it has an inground gunnite pool from the 70s with a Hayward pump and sand filter in our basement that’s sitting below the main drain...