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Paramount PCC-2000 automatic built-in In-floor cleaner. We just call it "the pool". Like "the pool" is cleaning itself.

Here's mine! Green to Clean with pictures! my-tfp-success-story-t13198.html

You can do it! That is about what mine looked like when I started. DID NOT DRAIN, treated the water that was there! Read my success story here! my-tfp-success-story-t13198.html

Does your cartridge filter have a plug in the bottom that you can remove? On mine, I remove the plug and turn off the return. The water comes from the pool and exits out the bottom of the filter. None goes back to the pool (or through the filter). It makes a mess around the filter pad, but it...

I was thinking about coating mine with Minwax Polyurethane coating (the type you put on floors). It's a clear coat. It's oil based. I know they use polyurethane coatings over fibreglass, but not sure if this is OK. Anyone want to weigh in on this one?

Follow up question... My new motor is a two speed and 220v. I haven't wired it for low speed yet, I'm waiting for some parts. The L2 is connected. L1 and A switch between High (L1) and Low (A) speed. Can they be energized at the same time? Ie:Can I have A energized, running low speed, and...

Update with Pictures I pulled the motor out of the pump, with intentions of getting the motor rebuilt or fixing it somehow. Then I saw this... After seeing this, I assumed the motor was done. I got online and ordered another 2hp motor from poolpartsonline.com. I upgraded to a 2 speed motor...

My Challenger pump motor burned up on me, so I'm in the process of replacing it. I got a pump seal replacement kit, and I'm trying to figure something out. The seal that has the spring in it... How does it go? I've installed it on the shaft with the shiny black plastic end facing the motor...

Help!! Pentair Challenger pump 2hp. Turn it on, it runs for about 30 seconds, the pressure is a little lower than normal (20psi rather than the usual 30 psi), then it shuts itself off. Breakers are all fine. After a couple of minutes, you can hear an audible click, then the pump will turn on for...

Make that two votes for the Paramount in-floor system!! I run the pump at night, and the pool cleans itself while we sleep.

As a followup... There is a Home Depot in my town, but no Lowes. The nearest Lowes is about 10 miles away. I was on some other business near the Lowes and figured I'd see if they had the timer. Taking the advice here, I stopped at the local post office and got a Lowes coupon first. If Lowes...

I look at those pictures above, and I see that my pool has continured to improve since I shot those "success" pictures. Maybe it's because the camera really can't capture how clean and sparkly it really is... Or maybe it's because the sun is finally out now. When the water is calm, the main...

I think that you and the electrician are on the right track now, but just wanted to throw out a question for you... What happens when everything is running and the power goes out for a minute or two? (long enough for the motors to spin down) When the power comes back on, that would be your worst...

We have one of those. The younger kids like it. (6 yr old and a 5 yr old friend) The novelty for the 10 yr old wore off pretty quickly. It's supposed to be able to be set to hover at different depths, but I could only manage sink slowly or sink fast.

I had no idea what zeo media was (I have a cartridge filter), so I googled it. I found this at http://www.askalanaquestion.com/pool_fi ... oblems.htm Obviously this would be unnecessary in a salt water pool. He pushes a bunch of other stuff on his site that may or may not work (very pool...

Yeah, I was pretty happy. We were GOING TO HAVE THE POOL PARTY whether I could see the drain or not, but it did make it that much better. We'd been swimming in the water for a couple of days at that point, but my wife adamantly refused to get in until she could see the bottom (because she saw...

On Memorial Day monday morning, I got up and looked at the pool. For the first time, we could see the main drain!! You kinda had to know what you were looking for, but you could see it. We finally shut the pump off, and only run it about 8 hours a day since Memorial Day weekend. The filters...

-Continued At some point I realized that I was only gettin a small trickle of water from the main drain. It seemed clogged. Using a friend's advice, I used a rubber plug with the wingnut removed, and my air compressor to blow air down the line. This dislodged a big clump of stuff. The drain...

-Continued- The filter had a broken pressure gauge. The pump filter needed a new o-ring. The distribution thingee for the in-floor cleaning system needed a new pressure gauge. A couple of the PVC pipes were broken. One by one, I fixed each part, until they were back into new condition. Once I...

We bought a repossessed house in October of last year. It came with a pool. We weren't sure what the condition was of the pool, but the house was only 4 years old. The trustees for the bank (we guess?) had strung 2x4's across the pool to hold up a pool cover. They left the nails in the 2x4's and...

My pool pump just has an on/off switch. I'd like to add a timer to automate it. Pump is 220v. So far the best deal I've seen so far is Home Depot for $68 +tax for an Intermatic T104r timer. Anyone know of any better deals that would work? I'll be doing the wiring, I'm comfortable with simple...

Do the floor returns pop up when they get water? Sounds alot like my in-floor cleaning system. I have about 8 jets that pop up out of the floor. First the two in the shallow end pop up, then the middle, and so on towards the deep end where the main drain is located. Each time they pop up, they...

Actually that's what led me to ask the question. I started there. I know I need one or two turn-overs per day, but I have no idea how long my pump needs to run to turn over once. If I knew the GPM of my pump and equipment, I could do the simple math and figure it out, but I have no idea how...

I'm trying to determine how long my pump needs to run each day. Can someone look at my equipment and give me a guess how many GPM my pump is putting out. I've looked at the pump curves, but don't understand it all. The pump is about 20 feet from the pool (horizontally) and below the water...

Isn't that thing between the filter and the heater (with the castle top) a chlorine puck feeder? Good luck cleaning that mess. I'm going through the same process myself. Mine had been sitting for 2 years with no love. When I started, the filter would only run about an hour between cleanings...

I was missing one of my eyeballs. I was afraid that the open pipe was making the other eyeballs ineffective, so I decided to cap off the one that was missing the eyeball. I bought an 1.5" cap something like this at a local orange big box hardware store for $.59 Walking out to the pool, I...

I am missing one of these downward facing eyeballs. They are part of a PCC-2000 in floor cleaning system, but I'm thinking they might just be a generic pool item. Can someone provide me with a part number and/or supplier? Also, what do you call the short section of pipe that screws into the...

Thanks for the encouragement. I know that if I could keep the filters running 24/7, it would clear faster, but I can't leave it unattended for more than about an hour before it needs some kind of attention. Unfortunately, there are only so many waking hours in the day that aren't already spoken...

So, I've gone from this: to this: Boy is this frustrating. That's after a full week of messing with it. I think it was actually clearer when it was green. (All the solids were nicely settled on the bottom when I took the first picture). If I called a pool company to come out and clean the...

Yes, the sock thing would have been a good idea. When I added the CYA to the pool, I mistakenly thought that the filter would go for more than a couple of hours before it needed cleaned again. I actually had the stupid idea that it wouldn't need to be cleaned for a couple of days. Is there a...