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I have a TF-100 test kit. Got the pool running without the grids and dumped 15 gallons of the shock in. Reserving the fourth barrel to see how it looks in the morning.

Thank you for the quick reply! (y) I've owned this pool for 24 years and have never had this happen before.

A very early warm spring caught me flatfooted and my pool turned green before I could get it open. I went and got (4) five gallon barrels of liquid shock from the pool store. My question is can I get the water circulating without installing the filter grids. I think I would like to get...

Northern Virginia here and I always open my pool on April 1.

My Jack Russell terrier likes to snatch the foam filters off the tail of mine. I buy them in bulk from Amazon so that is fine now. Near as I can tell, the main function of the hose is to aerate the fine silt off the bottom so that the main filter can trap it. When my hose clamp wore out, I...

My previous record is April 1st. I told my wife I wanted to beat that record this year. She went away mumbling something about checking my life insurance policy.

I never manual vacuum. I use the net to get the worms out about once a week in the winter. Doing this regularly saves me from having to deal with 2,500 drowned worms when I open the pool. During the season I brush the walls down once a week and let the Polaris handle the rest. So far, no...

Swim season for me is May 1 through mid-October. I have dared a few April swims but they are very short lived. Took the heater to the dump after seeing it drain a 500 gallon buried propane tank in three days. Two cold nights and I watched my money evaporate into the atmosphere. Hooked up...

:sunny:Fantastic sticky! I've learned so much so quickly and I've struggled through a DE system for 16 years.

I'm thinking that Jason might have nailed it. I never knew that about the grids. I've always saved the DE for after the start up. Penny wise, pound foolish I guess. Going to follow that link now and see what I've let myself in for. Thanks, guys.

http://www.amazon.com/Tubing-Braided-Poly-In-Clear/dp/B0078S86TE http://www.dudadiesel.com/pvc.php One of these should fix you up.

Looks wonderful! You're going to be the talk of the neighborhood this summer. :D "****ation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you." Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680 - 1718)

Two weeks ago I fired up the pool like I've always done. Got most of the leaves out with the net to the point where I could run the robot. I typically do not add DE right at opening because I know that I'm going to pull the grids and hose them off after the water looks clean. Filter gauge...

I would also like to add check the voltages coming into the spa. You can drop a leg on that 220 and a pump will still work, but not much else. See my recent thread titled "First the heat and now the jets" for my story (it ended well).

I am providing this in the hopes that it may help another member. I was assuming that it was my aging hot tub that had broken. I called my hot tub guy and he was hopelessly booked solid. He asked me what the issue was and I told him. He didn't think it was my spa at all because it was...

I own a 12 year old Hawkeye spa that has given me fairly reliable service until yesterday. Noticed that it had stopped heating, but the jets were still running. The weather has been uncommonly cold here in Virginia and I was worried about it freezing, but it seemed to be keeping at 72...

I'm just down Rt 28 from you. The Rappahannock River is one of my property lines. I did not know that about the Nature2 cartridges. Anthony & Sylvan installed it when they built the pool. I'm in Manassas every three or four weeks to hit McKay's Books. You are welcome to come out and...

Thank you. I'm reading the last two lines of your signature and I'm liking what I am seeing. Similar results will be welcome.

New member here and this question is the reason that I joined your forum. I have an inground pool with a concrete deck and coping around the pool edge. There is a 1/2" to 5/8" wide gap between the coping tiles and the deck surface. When the pool was built (16 years ago) this had Styrofoam...

New member here with some questions. Here's my pool and tiki bar.

Hello. Brand new to the forum. I was directed here by a member of a car forum that I belong to. I tried to lurk and find an answer to my question, but no luck so I joined. So far, I've liked what I've seen - particularly ideas for hiding my pump equipment. :D I will now try to find the...