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I've committed to building some pvc frame 4.5x4.5' cover squares we can toss on the pool when not in use. Evaporation is accelerating total pool water replacement due to either fill water with high calcium, or fill water post-softener that increases salt. The solar covers available to trim...

After 5 years of leaving the water exposed 365 days a year, our salt level (softened fill) is unmanagable and a refill is needed. I'd like to reduce evaporation to cut back on the amount of fill water needed. I am not looking for a safety cover, or even a "solar" cover. Just evaporation...

5 years after our pool was installed, all the color has faded from the plaster. It was noticeable even after three years. OnBalance has posted about this, with examples. The builder of course doesn't see the problem, or blames high TDS and TA of 45. So I am trying to get other examples, either...

Ive kept our pool in tfp happy zones for 5 years. Cya around 60, ph 7.7, ta is 45 ish. Salt is 5000 due to liquid chlorine and water softener? Anyway, our travertine is crumbling beneath our feet, but not immediately around the pool line. It’s spread all over the deck in random places. And we...

Our pool was built in 2014, and the Universal Color Logic LED just went dead. Three summers, less that 1000 hours illumination. The warranty is one year. Needless to say, I am not wanting to give Hayward my money for another poorly designed light. I already have a $400 remote that can't...

Just putting this here, as the option comes up in discussion every so often but I don't see a lot of threads about it. They are setting up the machine on Thursday and it will run 3-4 days I reckon. They don't test for salt, just CH TDS CYA and TA. I told them I just want the CH to come down...

I am not looking for a permanent robot, or kreepy. I have a vac port in the pool and the valve upstream to activate it. I am just looking for something to attach to my pole to get out dirt after bad dust storms. No batteries or moving brushed needed. If you have good or bad experiences with...

Playing around in pool math... I am trying to stay slightly negative on CSI to combat very light scaling until I can do a partial drain this winter (high CH). Current TA is 50. I can try to keep pH down near 7.4, but it will drift again. Or I can get the TA down to 40 and be fine at a pH of...

The first year of the pool I did a backwash at 6 months, and a full disassemble clean out at a year. Given the unwieldy process of the backwash and "that should be good" precision of adding DE back in, I decided to just skip the backwash and do the full clean out when the PSI got 25% over the...

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Pool School - SLAM - Shock Level And Maintain perhaps there could be a green pool pic at the top, like there is now, except the sparkley version of the same pool at the bottom of the article. edit: ah, meant this for the suggestion box, sorry. the only issue is me.

It's unclear whether the pool was full of water when this happened, or if, as seen in the pictures, it was empty. Pool out of ground in Pasco

I got my first test strips for salt (I don't have a SWG). It was becoming easier to taste in the pool. All my pool math calculations just had the default salt level of 1000 or whatever, and because I have high CA my CSI is always trending high ( I also fight high pH). The test strip shows...

Moderator Note. This was moved out of this thread. Recurring Green Algae after Slamming and Passing OCLT but theoretically you could maintain a lower than otherwise needed FC level. right? this is off topic for this thread but I may search about this. I am flip flopping on whether to run...

I like how when you hover over a thread title, you get a pop up of the first post of the thread. But, when you hover over the "jump to page" buttons under that thread title, you still get the first post in the pop up. It would be neat if there were a way so that when I hover over the "5"...

I bumped into my return stems hard enough to cause a leak in an above-ground joint on the return line. Luckily I can still use the water features to get the water moving and chlorine stirred. I called the builder (California) who referred me to the original plumber (Duncan) who is not...

Due to limited space in the side yard where the equipment is, here is what I would like: A 5-6 foot high fence/trellis/barrier. It would come out from the house about 6 feet, then turn 90 degrees and run parallel to the house about, oh, 15-20 feet. This would put the barrier right up against...

First summer almost officially over with a new pool, TFP method from day one. So far so good. I only test once a week, just go out every night at 9 to dump my bleach in the pool. For $200 I'd take a flyer (flier?) on the Liquidator. I'm not interested in anything that requires electrical, or...

I snipped this from the manual for their DE filters. Just thought I'd share. From what I've learned here, FC of 3.0 is the minimum for a pool with CYA of 30 IIRC......

New pool opened 3/14, so the PB added DE to the filter on 3/12 maybe. Brand new hayward filter. He set the full speed pressure gauge at the top. It's six weeks later now, and we still have a lot of dust accumulating on the walls and floor. Secondly, the full speed pressure is still where it...

Beause our PB doesn't install telescoping fountains anymore...they put a 15" white PVC pipe and eyeball cap on the baja step instead. All the return jets are dark gray and the pebble is medium blue, so it sticks out horribly. Anybody use paint for PVC that is designed to be submersed? I'm...

Split by moderator from HERE. Please ask questions in your own thread. Thanks, jblizzle for people that say they run the pump x amount of time...Is that at full speed? If you have a VSP, is that at 90%? 30%? Or, can you measure it by gallons per minute? Does a pump get rated like that...

Hi! Hayward PS-4 with a few Hayward GVA 24 actuators. After their design didn't work the way we wanted, I had to get in Visio and start diagraming for myself. I've got it pretty much figured out, but the builder is saying that the GVA valves go from left to right, and you can't have two valves...

Hi TroubleFreers. We used this site a bit when thinking about a new pool, so here is a thread about our build. We went with California Pools, which so far has not been all that it was cracked up to be. I can talk about that more later, but let's get some pics. The pool will be 10 feet on one...