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    going away for 6.5 weeks, should I close the pool and reopen it or get somebody to keep it running?

    hi guys, in a few weeks I will leave for almost 7 weeks and I am wondering if should just leave the pool get green and then change water when I am back. Let me explain: last year I did the same thing and I hired a teenager to clean the pump filter and skimmer every few days. I have a SWG and...
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    and then it happened... (green pool)

    sooo... I bought a home in vegas 3 years ago with a pool and zero pool experience. Thanks to you in a couple of months I fired the pool guy (that was using the pucks) and managed the pool myself initially with liquid chlorine and MA and then adding a SWG. Never had major problems and...
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    broken spa pipe/pump

    this is for a friend. He has a spa in vegas and the jet pump is like this now: this pump only operates the jets and gets turn on by a timer. There is a separate pump for recirculating the water. I would like to fix it for him if possible. Is that a standard union I can get from home depot...
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    what happened to my TA

    so... I finally got around to install a SWG (basically same as circupool UL55). It has been running for 2 days and my PH goes up pretty fast since the installation. And by pretty fast I mean .6 in a day. The pool ph has a tendency to go up up but I don't remember ever that fast: I figured...
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    Installing SWG and ph controller

    hi guys, I ordered a calimar swg from unlimited pool supply and the wifi pool kit from atlas scientific, waiting for them to get here and in the meantime I was preparing for the installation. I have a couple of questions, here is the situation right now this is where a chlorinator is...
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    spa algae

    when started taking care of the pool from the pool guy, I had a little bit of algae not on the pool side but on the spa side (the two are connected, same pump). The pool guy would scrape it and be done with it, CYA level were over 150 and chlorine was at 12 ppm at that time. Now I changed...
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    Hayward Super-Star-Clear C5000, how much DE?

    I cleaned the filter, should be a Hayward Super-Star-Clear C5000, I am attaching a picture of it, there is no label other than the warning label but it does have 4 of this inside: https://www.pleatco.com/products/pa126 Now... I bought a bag of clorox DE from lowes, 24 lb. I was sure was going...
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    new pool owner first water test

    hi guys, I recently bought a home with a pool, first time ever having a pool (las vegas area). There is a pool company from previous owner that has been servicing the pool for the last 2 months (since I bought the place). I am here because I want to take care of the pool on my own, so I have...