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    Bought another house with an older pool. Not enough suction to pump?

    Okay last house was the first house I had with a pool. During the time I replaced the heater, I also replaced the pump, and did other minor things to it. This pool however is an older pool and it has its own set of issues and I was wondering what I can do to make this work well. Here is what I...
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    My in line bleach feeder lately never provides enough chlorine

    Here are the facts. I have an appx 20,000 square foot pool I have an inline Pentair320 Chlorine / Bromine Chemical Feeder Bought the pool with this unit in place it is after everything else just before the feed back into the pool. Has worked fine for almost a year, the last 3 months it is not...
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    Good pump options?

    I currently have a Pentair WhisperFlo WF-26 in place. It is a 1 1/2 HP and I have a ton of issues with my pool since we bought the house 1 year ago. I have a water heater that keeps turning off because there is not enough flow, I have algae that keeps coming back every 2-3 months even with me...
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    I think I need a new pump. Can anyone help me diagnose?

    Okay let me start off by explaining my setup. First off I need to say I am always having to add acid increaser to my pool. I am doing this once every month ever since I first bought the house. When I was talking to my friend who has a working pool he says he never has to add that and actually...
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    Unsure where to start. Possible leak, do I need a vaccum, and more.

    Okay about 6 months+ ago we bought a house with the pool when I had 0 experience with a pool. Within a month I had multiple issues with mustard algae and I finally went as far as scrubbing the entire pool down and draining the entire pool. I then refilled it and since then I have been on the...
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    Robotic pool cleaners and screened in porch?

    I had posted about buying a vacuum for spot cleaning and whatnot that was like 20$ then I was looking even further and I saw they even have Roomba like automatic pool cleaners. Are they really that great and are they worth the price? We bought the Roomba for like 300$ years back and we love it...
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    How do I know what size pool hose to buy for vaccuums?

    As I mentioned in my prior post I am new to owning a pool. I now realize I don't know what kind of hose to buy for the vacuum. There was nothing left by the prior residents. I watched a few you tube items that indicate to feed it through the water skimmer thing and into the spot where the bucket...
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    New pool owner with bottom of pool turning yellow/brown

    Okay I moved into this house a few months back and I have been using some of the Aqua Chem test strips and then buying the items it says. I have a chrlorine feeder that holds about 10 of the 3 inch chlorine tablets and I have been cleaning out the baskets and I did my first DE filter...