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Help... I have a 20,000 inground plaster pool. Hayward DE 4820 filter system. I have been trying for about 2 weeks to turn it clear with shocking it hard and often. As soon as my filter pressure gets to like 30 I backwash and add new DE. Nothing I have tried is working. There is a bottom...

I got Hayward DE 4820. I was doing my annual cleaning of filter elements and noticed about 3 elements had small tears in them( maybe a 1/8 inch at most). There were several little tears on each from the plastic inside the mesh. I guess the elements are getting old and worn out. I bought...

Typical newbie question I am sure but I cant figure this out. I have a Hayward DE filter. 2 year old pump (not sure what size). What is going on is that I always bleed off the air after starting the pump. I get all the air out of the filter. But maybe 2 hours later I go back and the Filter...

Hey there. I am cleaning my DE filter for the first time. I am going to pull out the elements and give them a good washing. Is there a solution I can make myself to really get them clean? I dont want to pay an arm and a leg for some solution from the pool supply store if I can make some...

I have noticed this summer and last summer that my pool has some 'etching' or little holes that look like something has eaten out of it. Most of these pits or scars have some type of blackish algae in them that is very hard to get out. I don't have alot of this but there is a few spots around...

level of FC that we can get in. I shocked last night with the recomendations from the poolcalculator. I raised it to a 31 and right now I cant tell what it is. I know it is pegged out on my Taylor 2006 kit. So it is well over 5 or 10. I would assume it is somewhere around 15. Is it okay if...

It shows on the Pool Calculator to get a shock with my CYA level of 60-70 I need to add something like 7.5 gallons of 6% bleach. Can that be right? That is a whole lot of bleach. heck, that will cost me like 30 or 40 bucks. I do have 'some' algae spots around the pool, but nothing a little...

Of my return jets. It only last for like 10 seconds and then it's back to normal. Also when the bubbles thing happens it sounds as if my filter is kinda surging or something. I guess this means I have some kind of air leak huh? Is that harmful to equipment. Thanks

Everything seems cool in my pool. I have a pool guy that I am trying to break away from because I think I am wasting money on him. He never, ever wants to shock. Even when we had 35 people over in our pool. The F.C. levels are almost always around 0. He says that is because he uses a...

To make a long story short, I am a shift worker at a local Refinery. It is hard for me to give my pool the care it really needs during the summer months so I have hired a pool guy.(big mistake) Anyway, I have a 20,000 gal in ground plaster pool with a hayward D.E. filter and I believe a 1.5...