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I wouldnt take money. Ask her to cook your favorite meal. Pie? Cake?

I guess the purpose of the original post was, can you build a solar pool heating kit from supplies at Home Depot for a couple hundred bucks and heat the pool for free? I heated my pool one day for a party and it cost $100 on my gas bill. When you go to these web sites the system still costs...

Has anyone tried these type of plans? http://cgi.ebay.com/Solar-Swimming-Pool ... 1|294%3A50 The feedback seems to be good. What does he know that I didnt and spent about $3k on a pool heater? Thanks.

I did a search on Ebay for those LED color changing bulbs and they were about $500. Must be magic bulbs. I'll stick with my white floodlight.

While heating the pool I had a thought. Rather than running the cooler bottom of the pool water through the heater then out the returns why not heat the spa to a 100+ and let that spill over into the pool. By the time the heated water from the returns make it out a few feet they have cooled off...

I am heating my pool for a party today. I turned it on last night at 2am. The outside temp is 60 and the pool water was about the same. I wanted to heat the pool to about 83. Question, my Jandy LXI 4000 has a "pool heat" and "spa heat" button. I put it on "pool heat" and after 5 hours the water...

I have a 280, had to use the restrictor disc to slow it down . May seem stupid to ask but did you start the booster pump to run the 280? When my pump kicks in the thing runs around the pool fine.

Are there tiny bubbles coming out of the returns too? I am also learning about things that go on with my pumps and so on. When I saw the tiny bubbles from the returns and in the basket, I released the air valve on top of the filter till the water came out in a stream. The bubbles in the returns...

Just another thought. You found worms but no dirt. The two should go together IMHO. The dirt would flow through the pump basket leaving the worms in the basket with clean water coming back from the pool having gone through the filter. Have you opened up the filters to see if they are filled with...

Sorry, I thought I read somewhere where the guy found worms and dirty water. My bad. Unless you have a practical joker around, I cant understand how worms are getting in the pump basket every start up. Are they somehow getting in the filter housing? Have you cleaned it out recently? When they...

Im not a genius or a rocket scientist but even a caveman knows worms could not get into a closed system. There has to be a hole in an underground pipe. That's where worms generally live too, go figure. When the pump is on it will pressurize when the water runs through and saturates the dirt...

I am in the deck business. If you want something hot that is rough on your feet get pea gravel. If you want cheap, plain jane get brushed concrete. If you want decorative color, cooler than concrete and slip resistant get the spray deck. Stay away from the real Kooldeck. It needs to go on right...

A lot of small independent pool builders are going under right now. They are selling pools like crazy but unless you have cash money, you cant get them financed. With the equity dropping with the home prices, banks are very hesitant to approve a pool loan. Your PB may not be able or has not paid...

That cleaning method was very informative. Will try that next time. He also said having a monster filter may cause the pressure readings not to increase that much when they are dirty. That may be the problem we are having. I have 4 big Rear filters in that canister. Even clogged up they may be...

The pressure gauge seems to be functioning. Goes to zero when off and rises with the pumps. My pumps and equip are very close to the pool. Maybe 8 feet. Maybe the pressure is so good with the pumps that close that some dirt in the filters just doesnt make it rise enough to make the gauge go up?

I suspected the filters were getting dirty because the returns had lost some pressure. Yes, the gauge goes back to zero when the pumps are off. Anyway, I guess I will just make a point to clean the filters monthly. Thanks!

My pool is 5 months old, I have a Jandy CL340 cart filter. There is a gauge on the top for the pressure. It also indicates clean and dirty arrows. When the pool was new the PB set the clean to about 9psi and the dirty arrow is at about 20 psi. The pool has always run at the 9psi when the pumps...

We live in Texas and dont close our pools like the people up north. We are getting ready for a light to moderate cold front soon. Temps may get in the high 20's low 30's for a few hours. Normally we wrap our pipes to keep them from freezing. Do we need to wrap the PVC pipes to the pumps when the...

I recently got the Magicjack. We do not have landines at home, just use our cell's for the last 7 years. I use the MJ when I dont want to waste cell minutes on things like calling customer service and being put on hold forever. It seems to work fine. Cheap too, $19.95 a year.

I have a similar question. I have a standard manual dual timer to turn on my pumps. It is on a 24 hour cycle. However, I would like to have the option of running my Polaris with booster every other day during the winter. Right now it runs every day at the set time. Any suggestions on what I can...

Nice pool. Thats the first IG vinyl pool ive seen built. They are very rare where we live. Mostly gunite. Anyway, I was curious to see how they encased the side plumbing in concrete. What happens if there is ever an issue with a pipe or leak? Seems like a major issue to break that all out. I...

My main pump is Jandy 1.5hp. When I turn the valves to the spa, the 6 eyeball jets are very strong and give a good invigorating massage. When I turn on the blower it really kicks it up. No problems at all. I just didnt know why many of you list a separate pump for the spa. My PB never asked me...

New pool and spa owner. I read the signatures of those who moderate and post here and see what kind of equipment they have compared to mine. I notice many have a separate pump for the spa and some say "therapy jets" in referencing the jets in the spa. My pool has one pump for the pool and spa...

I can heat the water to whatever temp I want. I just wanted an accurate reading of what the correct temp was so I can set it and forget it. I didnt know if you need some sort of calibration on new equipment. 7-10 degrees is a pretty good spread when its not 90 degrees outside.

At my Jandy LXI heater and at the Aquapure 1400 the water temp shows one thing and my thermometer in the pool and the spa show about 7 degrees less. For example, today the thermometer in the pool/spa read 72 degrees. At the heater and SWG it read 79 on the LCD display. So when I turned on the...

Friend of mine had that put in and never used it. Also, if you have a SWG pool, the pole you put in there may rust. I bought some cheap metal hangers to put on my fence to hold my brush pool pole. The end that the brush rests on is already turned to rust and the other end is fine. Guess the...

We recently built an inground pool with depths 3.5-6.4. After 2 months my kids rarely go in the shallow end. They jump and play in the deep end. If I had it to do all over, I would have less shallow area and go deeper, maybe to 8 ft. The extra depth I think helps keep the water cooler in the summer.

In the business I am in we work occasionally with muratic acid and I know if you get a whiff of the fumes it will make you cough. I see you have a muratic acid auto feeder. Might check to see how close this is to the spa and if the fumes are near people. Good luck.

I did the same thing. I filled my pool and after a month I went and got the water tested at the pool store and they said the hardness was way off. I bought 20lb of the hardener and put it in the water like they said and brought the levels back up. My softener is at the water entry line so even...

your pool and spa sound like mine. I turn on the pump, turn the return valve from pool to spa, turn the drain valve from pool to spa, turn on the heater. The water will spill over the opening till the water levels out under the spill over. The water is going into the spa drains, thru the heater...