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Folks- My 5.5 year old Jandy AquaPure 1400 is beginning to fail. It's producing choline, still but not well. Test seems to indicate that the cell is at fault. So it seems I need at least a new cell, but was wonder whether now would be the time to install a new, better, entire system. If I...

Folks- Here is my chem: FC: 3.5 CC: .5 TC: 4.0 Temp: 81 pH: 7.4 Hardness: 390 TA: 80 CYA: 50 I took a sample to the local Anthony & Sylvan simply because they have a means to test for borates, and I do not. I've been considering adding borates after I have read the accolades here but I...

Folks- Last spring I opened the pool, to a bad flow sensor for my Jandy Apure 1400. It showed "no flow" despite there being plenty of flow. I read here a bunch here, inspected, tested, and indications were that it was the flow sensor. When I removed the old there was rust on one of the...

Folks- ANYONE that may have an old Mars HP (blue, ball style) laying around, that they have any desire to get rid of, PLEASE contact me? I'm fairly desperate, frankly. I need a critical part that is completely unavailable. The plastic part with the male threaded end that the hose attaches...

Folks- Wanted to break this out as it's own topic as I gotta figure others will want to know more about how/whether/ when to address treating the pool over the winter. My contact from Aqivations, the plaster manufacturer for Hydrazzo, stated that; "It is imperative to check and adjust...

Folks- I replaced ~ 14K gallons of my water below is my old, (prior to refill) new, and fill water chemistry. Old Water (before the replace) Date: 8/14 Temp: 85F FC: 1 CC: .5 TC: 1.5 T/A: 45 C/H: 650 CYA: 50 Salt: 3,200ppm pH: 8.0 Filter pressure: 22 PSI SWG Setting: 20% Pump Run Time: 8...

OK, so I'm resigned to replacing ~12,000 gallons of water in my 28K pool to lower my CH from 600 to a more mid-range number. What's the best technique? I could drop a garden hose in, start a siphon, measure how long it takes to fill a 5 gallon bucket and multiply when to stop the siphon. But...

Hey Folks- My CH is still really high (~600, I have not done anything about it to date) and if I can avoid it, I'd rather not replace water. It may come down to it, but that would mean 300_ lbs more salt and CYA, plus the cost of the water. if I had to replace 14,000 gallons, it would not be...

Folks- I am not at all sure how to post values from a spread sheet but last summer when my PB was calling into question my testing efficacy -to include the veracity of the mighty TF-100, I did a little experiment. I tested the same exact sample of water at 4 other local pool stores -all within...

Folks- Opened the 28K gallon pool yesterday, and again this year there was significant build up of lime scale on the walls and floor of the pool. It does brush off with a wire brush but there was literally many pounds of the stuff. Initial testing of my pH was off the charts so I began adding...

Folks, here is my review of Carlton Pools who designed and built my 28K gallon, 802 Sq Ft., free form, in-ground, gunnite with plaster pool with Exposed Aggregate Decking. They completed Construction: May 2008. What follows is a description of the events, and my opinion, where they went wrong...

Folks- I just got my plaster re-polished, and it's smooth as can be. Happiness and light... (or as much as is possible -I guess) So I get thinking about how to keep it that way. I want to do my best to prevent etching. The etching was worst in the deep end, by the skimmer, which tells me...

Folks- Just dropped by a local pool store, to pickup CYA. It was not my normal pool store, but it was on the way. So I get chatting with the shop owner and he starts talking about how salt pools are now being implicated in heater erosion issues. He says he's just started installing Zinc...

Folks- I've been having to add at least .5 - .75 gallons of muriatic acid per day for the last few weeks to keep my pH in check. Seems like a lot to me. If I skip a day, my pH goes over 8! +/_ two weeks ago, my TA was 130, now it's 60, and I have not been aerating. I'm guessing that T/A...

Hey Folk, Dan here again. Nice to see the list up and running still, flourishing in fact. So I opened the pool last weekend to a real mess. So here's the story. The 25K gal. in ground, DE, SWG, irregular shaped pool was installed last spring with a Midnight Maui (dark gray in color)...

Folks- Been taking bids for a winter cover -come to find out they're not cheap.... Side point, My inclination is to go with a solid Anchor cover -seems to the best except for being heavy and requires a pump... But anyway, I'd like to protect my investment, and am thinking that one real...

Folks- Been having a bit of a mystery with my SWCG. It's a Jandy Aqua-Pure 1400. Three weeks ago, I was humming along quite nicely with a 30% setting on the control unit and salinity of 3300 yielding right around 4.5 ppm FC -right where I wanted it. Had this steady-state for several weeks...

Aside from testing the water +/- weekly, adding MA and tweaking the SWCG output, I do nothing with my pool these days, and feeling good about that thank you very much! Being inherently lazy, I've been thinking of a couple of ways to increase automation and wondering whether either of these is...

Swung over to the PS to ask their opinion on the pump running without back pressure, (they were thinking I probably shortened the life -but to run it till it dies) and after mentioning that I had the Mars HP Pressure Side Cleaner, he, as an aside mentioned that it's been discontinued. _sort of...

Hey Folks- Just got back from vacation to find that my pressure side Mars cleaner disconnected. -Only problem is that I had the timer set to run for 3 hours/day!! From what the PB told me, they should not be run disconnected / without back pressure as it will damage the pump. I suspect what...

Hey Folks- Had my pool installed recently and they finished it this spring. The Plaster/ Hydrazzo crew came out on a rainy Thursday to install the Hydrazzo, and took the better part of the day to finish the job. When the rain started, the built a tent over my pool so the could get the work...

Hey Folks! Waiting on my TF-100 to arrive in the meantime, I've been using the Pentair and the Anthony Sylvan store testing as another data point. Here are my results; I bolded the question I would most like anyone's/ everyones input on. FC: .50 ppm (I'll add a little less than 1/2 of a 182...

Hey folks- Been reading your post, good stuff! Had a couple of quick questions if I may? I'm inclined to run my pump 24/7. It's a Jandy 1.5 HP motor which is not at all noisy, so there's no down side there. Seems to me the reason people do not run thier filter 24/7 are as follows: Noise...