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I had a similar problem when I opened my pool a couple years ago. I was beating my head against the wall looking for a suction side leak or a blockage. It turned out to be a tear in one of the internal gaskets in the pump. The impeller could not develop pressure because of the tear. I bought a...

And for cutting that slot, a wet saw is great if you have one on hand. If you don't, then you can do the cut with a grinder and a grinder diamond blade.

Well if it so cloudy that you can't vacuum then that is probably why your pressure is going up so fast. The D.E. gets loaded up with all the organics that it is filtering out and then the pressure goes up. It sounds like you need to slam your pool. I used up a 20 lb bag of D.E. this year opening...

Are you filtering out a swampy mess? When I opened the pool this year, mine went from 18 to 25 overnight when I was slamming and filtering it out.

That seems way high. After a backwash and new D.E. my pressure is at 18. My flow starts to slow when my filter gets to 20. When slamming my swamp this season my pressure went to 25 and I had almost no flow. Are you sure the gauge is working right? What was your pressure usually at before the new...

The manual... https://www.hayward-pool.com/pdf/manuals/ProGrid-DExx20.pdf I just recently cracked my Nautilus DE filter open and found one big tear and a bunch of little ones starting. I did a temporary patch over the holes until I can buy new grids. There are some posts on doing this if you...

It is a noticeable improvement. Being as cheap as I am, I would have never done an "optional" chemical. It was already in the pool when I bought the house and it took a bit to figure out why our pool looked and felt so much better than anyone else's. I actually figured it out through TFP and...

Oh sorry for the confusion. You mentioned Borax somewhere way early in your post so I thought you had read up on it's use to put borate in your pool. Borate is an optional enhancement. Not a necessary one. My reference to 50 ppm is for the recommended borate level. Borax raises ph, the muratic...

I'm not sure what the pool guys had you putting in your pool before. When I bought my home I found that my pool water looked spectacular compared to others. The previous owner had no idea what the pool guys where having them throw in. I bought the LaMotte borate test strips and found that my...

You mentioned at the beginning of your post about Borax and was advised to hold off on that for a bit. If you are interested in added excellence, then it sounds like it's time for the borax and muratic acid.

That's a beautiful pool and back lawn. It would probably be cheaper to keep the pool open for that period of time than it would be to carefully fill it in and then years later carefully dig it back out, make an unknown amount of repairs, etc. I would be inclined to insist that it be kept open...

We have 50 ppm borates and I believe our dogs actually prefer the pool water instead of their own water dish. They have learned not to drink it directly in front of us but they still drink it every chance they get.

Recently I was convinced I had an underground suction side leak so to confirm it before randomly digging up the lawn, I rigged up a DIY pressure tester. Glad I did because I found that it was not the problem. You may want to do the same. My suction leak turned out to be the internal impeller...

Good point. Their shipping is slightly more than Locke. It would be about $80 savings over the name brand. Hmmm. Something for me to ponder.

Here it is... http://www.ebay.com/itm/271470879776?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Thanks for the advice although I still have the wrinkles. After work yesterday I attempted to broom these out and also use the plunger method. Neither worked for me. The underground water must have drained because the wrinkles are tight to the bottom. If I didn't know better, I would swear it...

I am considering my options on a new 1-1/2 HP 2-speed motor for my Super Pump. Best pricing I can find on a typical name brand is an A.O. Smith STS1152R from Locke Well and Pump for $271. I also found on eBay a guy selling some new generic brand for $170. That's a $101 savings. It is an...

So here is the newest problem this year. We had a Noah's Ark kind of rain yesterday and the teenagers decided to swim in the rain. I went out to do my daily pool work and to my horror found a huge wrinkle that is about 8 feet long in the shallow end. I'm almost certain the liner floated for a...

Well luckily my pool house is attached because it is built into the corner of the house and garage. I did ponder if I should just run the subpanel all the way out into the pool house but decided it would be better to keep the panel in the garage and just run the individual circuits through the...

To make a long story short, I bought a house last summer with an inground pool that was installed in 1980 and it has been powered off of a 25 ft extension cord all of this time. It's scary to even look at. I decided I needed to redo the electrical for my pool. Currently all I have is a Hayward...

Good advice everyone. I'm sure there is an antique collector that will get more enjoyment out of this than I will.

I realize it is way undersized. My pool is about 25k. My best guess by looking at other wood burners is that it puts out maybe 50,000 btu. This thing is probably 1/6 of the recommended size but using a solar cover to heat a pool to comfort level in Ohio just takes forever. It was July before it...

I have an unheated pool and want to eventually do solar but I'm not seeing that in the budget for this season. I have been watching Craigslist for used equipment options and found an antique Sears wood / coal boiler that the previous owner has used to heat his pool. I bought it for $60 on a...

Well tearing down the pump turned out to be one of the simplest things I have worked on. There is very little going on in there. It turned out that the seal at the impeller was shredded and some of the pieces were even washed away. That was the source of the vacuum leak. I ordered a Go-Kit...

My palm was over the inlet on the outside of the pump - where the plumbing hooks up. Not the internal inlet within the basket. Sometimes I'm stupid enough to try something like that though. I'm getting desperate enough to try. The front plug is epoxied in. I suppose it was striped out and...

I filled the male threads with pipe dope, then two wraps of teflon tape over that, then more pipe dope over the teflon tape. Using this method I have never had a threaded connection leak. I used smoldering incense sticks to check for leaks but could not find any smoke being drawn in or disturbed...

This site has been a Godsend. Last summer I bought a home that came with a pool which was installed in 1980 and I have overcome numerous age related problems thanks to TFP. Although I have been reading and using this site for almost a year, this is my first post. My current seemingly unsolvable...