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Definitely at the valve -- I have taken the hose off before and can see it dripping out the bottom of the grey elbow piece attached to the bottom of the valve. Maybe I should just hire someone to take the valve out completely (replace the T piece above with a straight section of pipe)?

I have a ball valve that used to go to a drain/waste line, but that line had a leak in it underground that actually damaged our pool several years ago. (The line was shared with house sump pump which did the damage.) So we never use it anymore, and always keep the valve closed. For the last 5+...

Okay, thanks very much for your response, that makes sense. I am wondering if it could have been caused by ground movement putting stress on the lines, as there was a huge amount of rain & wet snow prior to the freeze. I'll ask the pool guys if they have any more details, but in any case I'm...

Hi there! Here is the interesting scenario that happened: In the fall (due to other repairs going on), all my lines were pressure tested and passed, all good. The pool company closed the pool and blew out the lines. In the spring, there was a leak in one of my return lines (stair jets). Water...

My Hawyard H250 was making a sound like this today, right after I turned it on. I took out my skimmer sock (which was clean but potentially obstructing flow a little) and turned it back on and the sound went away. Not sure if taking out the skimmer sock was related or not. But I was wondering...

Perfect thanks! Yes, love the liquid chlorine. Best price around here is Canadian Tire. Yes, doing that now, takes a while to dissolve.

Even though this post is a year old I thought I should explain what happened in case anyone finds it, they may learn from it. It turned out the damage to the pool was caused by a broken underground sump line (running from house sump pump, not pool). Turns out the break in the line was RIGHT...

After initially filling pool (new liner), my CYA is being brought up but is currently well below 20 (min value on the chlorine-CYA chart). It's only 5 ppm. What should my target chlorine level be? I've found from new fills in the past that it doesn't seem to take much chlorine when CYA is so...

Here is a picture showing the bulges in the wall -- a big one to the right of the light, and a smaller one to the left of it. It's hard to see in the water, but where the liner is sort of hilly, that isn't water or air behind it, but some kind of dirt/debris.

Thanks for the replies. Attached is a pic of the liner floating (prior to them draining the water behind the liner), but you can't really see the bowing. I'll take a picture in the morning where you can see the bulges. @dave Yes my area definitely has a problem with clay / gumbo soil and high...

We've owned this house with 18 x 36 foot vinyl inground pool for 6 years. The pool is around 25 years old I think. It has worked great for us, other than some problems with liner bubbling / floating over the last 2 years, and a small leak at operating level, also starting around 2 years ago...

Okay thanks, good idea I will try that!

I soaked my cartridge filters in commercial filter cleaner solution (it said to use 1 litre of cleaner for ever 20 litres of water, I probably used a bit less than that because I only had 3L of cleaner but needed to fill about 70L in my garbage bin). I soaked them overnight (one set for 24...

For those of you who live in cooler climates, I thought it might be worth sharing the following tips for helping to keep your water nice and warm, and save money on heating (if you have a heater). 1. Shut off the pump overnight, or whenever it's cool out. Run your pump during the warmest part...