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I bought a Dolphin E20 from Marina PSP! I can't wait to get it, try it out and see if my pool maintenance life becomes easier. I've been a pool owner since 2005. I've always manually vacuumed our pool out. It wasn't the worst task in the world but there would be plenty of times where I really...

My pump/filter pressure is jumping from 8-10 psi when I start up the pump/filter to 20-25 psi in about two to three hours. If I turn off the pump and turn it back on, the pressure drops back down to 8-10 psi. I thought maybe it needed to be backwashed but I did this just a few hours ago and it's...

I noticed last week that the pressure gauge on my sand filter has water and condensation in it. This is the first time that it has happened since I installed the sand filter back in December. If I remember correctly it happened shortly after a backwash/rinse cycle. I left it alone for a week to...

Oh my, I'm feeling a lot of anxiety right now. So please forgive me if what I'm typing is hard to follow. I just finished hooking up my new Hayward sand filter. I'm usually very meticulous about things like this but somehow I hooked up the plumbing backwards. I ended up running the filter for...

While the pool is down for the winter, I've decided to move away from my current cartridge filter for various reasons. I think I've decided I want to use a sand filter with a little DE added to it. The problem is that I've read conflicting information on the size of sand filter that is needed...

I'm getting ready to shock my pool due to lingering small algae clusters I keep getting every other day. I have several small children that swim in our pool and I wanted to know what is the highest amount of chlorine (in PPM) that is safe for kids to swim in? Thanks!

I've confirmed that my pool pump is dead. Since it's fairly aged (maybe even older than we think) we've decided to go ahead and get a new pump rather than have it repaired. According to some articles I've read is that we can use an above ground pump on our inground pool since it is fairly small...

I have an Astral Pools IGP2010 pool pump. This is the web page for the pump: http://www.astralpoolusa.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=93&category_id=26&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=318 Anyway, tonight I noticed that the pump has...

We inherited a pool when we purchased our current house. I'm slowly learning this stuff and everytime I think I can take a breath something goes wrong. I guess it keeps me honest and on my toes. I noticed recently that DE would leak back into the pool when the pump turns on. It would only do it...