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Solved - Poured a quart or so of muratic acid down main drain and added a bit of water. Waited about 5-10min and bam, unclogged main drain.

Main drain and skimmer both have independent lines, the skimmer is closed.

I drained my pool to sand the bottom of the shallow end, we did this because a bad contractor acid washed the pool and created a surface that would rip the skin of my kids feet. My kids and I got started and everything finished great. I had a pump in deep end pumping water into the yard. After...

I plugged them while I sanded the rough gunite so I didn't get a bunch of wet plaster in the main system. I just used a pump to get the water/plaster out. I would have to chip the cement in the drains to get it out. I was afraid one piece broke off already so was sure if I should just chip it...

I was just afraid they used this material to patch a broken drain casing. If I remove it and find a hole or cracked casing, can you advise on what material I should use to patch? I do have a small jug of the E-Z Patch plaster repair.

I drained my pool to repair the rough surface caused by a contractor that acid washed the plaster to a point that it would make my kids feet bleed. That job is complete. However, when I was pressure washing the pool and cleaning a piece of what appear to be concrete came out of one of the main...

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Appreciate all the feedback. I will work on figuring out the surface and getting some pictures posted. My gopro broke so I need to borrow an underwater camera to get this done.

Has anyone attempted to sand the surface of Gunite to solve this rough surface? Any experience with how to do such a task?

We recently moved into a house with a 13 year old gunite pool. The bottom surface was dirty so we paid a company to drain and acid wash the gunite surface. The pool is now clean, however the surface in the shallow end of pool is rough. When the kids play basketball for a few hours they come...

Thanks PS0303! I just used my sawzall and cut the pipes and used fitting and pipe to bypass. I will put the heater in the garage for winter project. Thanks for the video! I found the manifold for about $600, seems a lot better than 2K to replace. Any concerns with the rebuild? Your comment...

This unit was build in mid 2006 and 400K btu. I'm handy, but time is more of an issue with me balancing work, family, and down time. Two questions, do you have a reference on steps to change the exchanger? Also, best way to bypass this configuration of unions that are non standard with over...

I found another thread that suggests pulling the bottom manifold bolt out to check for water and a compromise in the heating exchange. I pulled the bolt and out came water..... So, now my questions are. Can I rebuild the unit and replace the heat exchange? Or has your experience found that...

Just returned from a family vacation to find the heater leaking water out of the blower. Unfortunately I do not have a bypass before the heater to allow the pool to stay running. Can anyone help with troubleshooting. I searched for a while, but no real good threads that I could find. A...

Awesome news dwolfe ! I received my replacement last week, just switched it out yesterday and I have a working heater. I think the membrane takes most of the punishment with the heat, even though it has shielded it still gets blasted by weather. Enjoy your summer !

dwolfe129, Here is what I found with mine this morning. If you have a voltmeter, it only takes about 30min to take off cover and check the voltages. Just be careful not to short anything causing even more problems. If you short the controller board under the key pad with Pins 6 & 5 on J6...

I believe I have found the issue. This morning I followed the "Heater will not fire - A" in the trouble shooting section of the manual (page 38). http://www.pentairpool.com/pdfs/MaxEThermOM.pdf I got to the very last box in the middle of the page, when I jumper-ed the pins 4&6 together, the...

I just posted the same exact issue yesterday, without the mouse. Starts with 128, then r=5, then power is not displayed like the system shut it shelf down. I just moved to a new house, so its time to learn the new pool and equipment...just when I figured out my old stuff...Hopefully we will get...

I just moved to a 8 year old house this past winter with a pool. I just started everything up and fixed a few leaky gaskets and the usual. However, the heater will not start up. Once power is applied the heater displays 128, then a code across the display is r=5 . Then the display...

Success! Works perfect..... I ended up going to HD and getting the Gardner Bender Model # GSW-16 for $5.99 that is rated up to 1.5hp pumps. Only weird part was when rebuilding the pump there was "no" impeller ring on my super pump. I read that some pumps don't have this ring on the end of...

I finally got the new pump and from being out of town for the past 2 weeks. My old pump is officially dead. I ran out today to get a switch to hook up the pump and all I could find was an overkill $80 switch rated at 2hp. I did see a cost effective solution rated at 20amp, but only 3/4hp...

Is sounds like the majority of people wire the timer control between the SWG and Circuit breaker box? So Pump wired to SWG to Timer control to CB. So do you match the timer control settings in both the SWG and the Timer Control? The timer control is just an on/off switch. You program all...

Now that the pump is on its way to my home, I was doing some reading about using the Autopilot to control the 2 speed and came across this quote from Jason. The AutoPilot Digital only has one pump relay. When you have a two speed pump there are two different ways you can wire it. Either the...