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Thank you, will do.

Good morning. We'd like to replace our current light with a pretty LED light, and my head is spinning with the choices and range of prices. I don't know where to start. Our niche opening is 4.5" wide and 5.5" deep. The light is 5.5" wide and about 5.5" long (see picture). How can I...

I just wanted to say think you Marty! I did that and found some that were listed. I called a few and they ended up referring me to a guy who did a spectacular job on my pump. It's whisper quiet now. :) Whoo hoo! He asked if I had bubbles in the filter basket, which I do, not alot, but a...

Any idea where I would find out which bearing to get? Or find a motor shop? So sorry to be clueless, but .. I am. :)

Ok, I'll try a bearing. :oops:

Thanks Mark. I think I may buy a single speed motor just for a back-up and look around for a motor shop to find the bearings (or someone who will replace them). I'm definitely regretting purchasing the VS pump right now.

Hello everyone, 3.5 years old. I did replace the shaft seal and it's still making the same noise. It primes fine, doesn't leak just loud. I'm guessing it's the bearings :-(. There was a flying ant nest inside the seal plate, which I'm guessing did some damage? How do I go about searching...

Thanks, looking at the RJ-60 or Core-55. Thanks for moving the message and apologize for breaking rules. A little excited about not hauling chlorine bottles.

Looks like I'm jumping in the salt pool game myself! Any advice on RJ vs. Edge vs. Core?

Excellent idea. My husbands beer making supplies are in Virginia, or I definitely would have used that!

Yep, thanks all. You can see how lousy a PVC mechanic I am. :rolleyes: I dump as much bleach in as I need, then dilute it as it goes in. I had to put some rocks in the bottom to counter balance, and put that lid underneath to keep the gravity going my way. It's working just great, though.

For those of us too lazy to hold a bottle of chlorine for more than a minute. Price: $18 more or less. Having a drink while it dribbles in for 15 minutes : priceless.

I thought I'd give an update. I decided simply to re-plumb the pool. This gave me the opportunity to deep clean the sand and to add three unions. When I took off the multiport and measure the freeboard, it was 6" too much! The filter calls for 10.5 inches, and I had over 16 inches of...

I ran my filter constantly last summer. 24/7 alot of the time, and at least 10 hours per day. I ran the polaris daily and backwashed at least once or twice a week. Perhaps I was a bit unclear in my original post, and I apologize for that and thank you for your suggestions. However, I am not...

I use bottles of bleach to chlorinate. The water, when it clouded, would be different colors, depending on what was pollinating. In the spring it was yellowish brown, from pine. Later in the summer it was bright green. A couple of times I brought it to slam level, but the tests never...

Hi all, We purchased a new liner last April, and there are no more leaks! Yay! However, our pool gets cloudy... alot. Last year I tested the water daily. I kept our FC at 5.0, and never, not once ever got a reading on CC. Sometimes it turned green, sometimes it turned brown, but the FC and...

Phil, Some of the stuff that gets dumped into my pool by the trees looks like it could be mustard algae to me, and last year (before I found TFP) I was about to treat for it. but it isn't, it's pollen and/or dead algae. It oozes down the walls if I haven't brushed recently. It's gross, but...

Hi Phil! Here are my answers to your questions: 1) Are there certain trees/plants/vegetation that you should NEVER plant around pools? In other words, if you were building a new house from scratch and you hired a landscaper to decorate the pool area, are there certain plants that are a no-no...

Take it out of the pool, take the bag off and make sure the water shoots up (into the bag, if it were on) evenly. If it is doing a reverse wheelie with the pump off, do you mean the booster pump, the main pump or both? If both, then no water is being pumped through and the wheelie is...

I had mine replaced and paid $2500, they most definitely took away the old liner. Pretty sure that was written in the contract.

I thought mine was missing too, and used a tiny little measuring spoon I had for a while. Then once, I was cleaning the inside of the plastic box and it fell out.

So far so good! I put the putty on yesterday afternoon and lost NO water overnight. Now I'm nervous that I'll dislodge the putty while I'm re installing the light fixture. Did I mention that I was tired of losing water?

Great, Thank you!!

Thanks, Paul, Will that cause problems in the long run if I decide to change the light fixture out completely? What brand of pool putty is the best for this, Atlas? Becky

Ugh, I am so tired of losing water in my pool! History: We purchased the house a year + ago, so last summer was our first summer with a pool. It was losing water all summer. This spring we determined that it was probably the liner and we replaced it. It stopped leaking all together! Since...

Same here in Georgia. Running the pump and skimming, and hosing out the skimmer (sock) keeps it in check. It's getting better by the day.