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Today I decided to brave the Texas heat and clean my DE filter. I disassembled it and hosed off all the grids - no tears that I could find. Reassembled everything and started loading up the DE. After adding half of the DE I noticed that there was no more water in the skimmer was sucking air. I...

I just took apart my booster pump to see what was causing it to leak. To my surprise it must've been leaking quite a bit longer than I noticed since it's all nice and rusted. So instead of trying to fix it, I'm going to replace it. How hard is this to do yourself? Do you just plug it in or...

Well, Ike has come and gone and left us without power since around 2am Saturday morning. According to Centerpoint (the electrical provider), we may get power back by Monday. Needless to say the pool is a mess with no power to drive the pump and the Polaris. I managed to scoop up most of the...

About 3 months ago I had a new DE Filter installed. The pressure on my old filter ran at 12 psi, the new one at about 18 psi. At about the same time as the new filter install, I noticed that the suction from the skimmers is lower than it used to be. Here is what I've tried so far: 1)...

I just had a brand new DE Filter installed not more than an hour ago. After the pool guy left, I went and checked things out and noticed that the pressure gauge was at 18 or 19 psi. The writing on the guage shows that the starting pressure should be about 11psi and once the filter reaches...

Is there an easy way to get rid of the weeds that keep on poking up between the pavers around my pool? I'd love to use Roundup or something like that since it's easy, but I don't know how much the pool would like it.

Hi there! I've been lurking about for the past week or so and thought it was time to finally chime in. I inherited an 18,000 gallon gunite pool with a dying Nautilus NS DE Filter when we bought the house last summer. I had been relying on Leslie's Pool to test my water prior to finding this...

I just got my new test kit in the mail today (thanks for the fast shipping!), so I immediately rushed out to perform my first test. Here are the numbers: FC 9 TC 9 pH 7.8 TA 150 CH 310 CYA 72 Temp 81 I have an 18,000 gallon gunite pool with a DE filter that's on the fritz. I'm...