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Well, it’s hard to be clearer than that, huh? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m at a loss.

It's on its second season. Is the bond wire the same as the grounding wire? I don't know where that it, but I know the electrician and I talked about him grounding the equipment. I'll check that out too.

I am going to replace both of them - new knobs, new o-rings, and new Magic Lube on it's way. Should I avoid running the pump in the meantime? Does that noise sound more like bearings than cavitation?

I am at school today working. I know, though, that the drip comes out of the second knob on the pump - not the knob under the pump basket (though it was there first). I suspect that we cracked that knob overtightening it on Saturday. I put a cup there to catch it to see if that was the only...

OK! So we knew there is a leak. That's what prompted the overall maintenance day. I noticed the leak one day, ordered new knobs/o-rings/Magic Lube and decided if we were doing maintenance we should also address the cartridge clean-up. The new knobs, o-rings, and Magic Lube haven't arrived yet...

The PB for this pool has 20+ years of experience and makes the fiberglass pools himself and installs them from beginning to end himself. I like that because if there are problems the installer can't blame the PB and vice versa. It was amazing to watch him work. He has installed this same pool...

Here are the Youtube links since the Google Drive links didn't work for everyone. THANK YOU!

Hi, MKNauss. Thanks for the reply. Did the video links I provided above not work?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_oJ62i10CdZ4WWVXvz98CxqopMVH92tq/view?usp=drivesdk This is the video of what I consider “normal” for the water movement under the glass lid over my pump basket. Again, it’s a new pool; this is our second season with it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EVeC05dT8hKntA7wewyG_n6lOK60_Gwb/view?usp=drivesdk I added the video of the noisy pump to my Google Drive and can hopefully share it via the link above. Thanks again for any advice.

Hi, HermanTX. Thanks for the reply. I’ll work on getting videos. Here is a pic of my pump / filter set up. I don’t notice any decrease in water flow from my returns. I don’t know how to measure that but it seems the same.

https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/pump-noise-after-filter-change.177401/ I found this old thread, and hope someone can help me better understand. I am having this problem. On Saturday my pressure was at 12, which was close to 10 psi over startup in my two year old pool. I pulled the...

Love this! I *AM* the person who waits to call EMS for the more reckless folks. I just never applied that same principal to the pool. Thanks for the great analogy! Passed the OCLT! Tested last night at 9:30 and again this morning at 6:30. No chlorine loss. 🎉🎉🎉 This group is so awesome...

I am a Pool Math user. When I try to set my target FC to anything higher than 7 it says that’s outside my range based on my CYA. If I flip the SLAM toggle on, it says my minimum is 14. Your suggestion is 10. So just ignore Pool Math’s formulas/suggestions. That’s scary to me. Pool Math is my...

My chlorine-sensitive nephew gets very red, itchy eyes within an hour of being in any chlorine pool, along with very dry flaky skin. He loves to swim with us though. We manage it alright. No one else has that reaction in my pool. As for laundry, we do wash swimsuits, but only after 2-3 wears...

Hi, MKNauss. Last year towards the end of the year my pH got high. I had to add muriatic acid. This year my pH has remained steady at 7.4 except for a short stint in May after lots of rain. Then it hit 7.8. I added more stabilizer to raise my CYA about then, and it dropped the pH back to 7.4...

Hi! It nets out with a fine mesh net. It almost immediately dries powdery. There is very little of it, but I’m fastidious about the pool. I know little problems can be big problems quickly. Thanks for the response. Hi, Snoobug! Thanks for the response and tips. Maybe I need to go back to pool...

Second season with my fiberglass chlorine pool. No problems so far. But about a week ago I first noticed some whitish, stringy floating stuff in the shallow end of my pool. It almost looks like a thin string of spit. Weird. I attributed it to a new pool float, thinking it had some sort of...

I tried to find an answer for this, but a response in the old thread from 2013 that I linked below is the closest I could find. I would like to follow the TFP guidelines of not fully closing my pool until the water temperature is below 60°. I’m in Oklahoma though, and our weather varies wildly...

Been there and done that with the springtails. We came home from a three day vacation to find the entire surface of the pool COVERED in them. We are still kind of fighting them, but just a little here and there. Our pool is new this year, and we laid sod all around it. We think that's where they...

Me yesterday: Look at us! We are going to get through our whole first season without one pool problem! Me today: We have no power to the pool. Aaarrrgghhh! So I have read some posts here about non-working pumps. I get that while waiting for an electrician to fix the power issue I need to move...

@Newdude Thanks! I was worried about the two mixing, even in the pool, which is what originally brought me back here looking for some great advice. I appreciate you guys!

Like always, you guys are so helpful! Thanks for the info about switching from cal hypo to bleach (and maybe back again) and for the extra tips about keeping FC a little higher. I so appreciate all the help!

Ok! So I can see two ways of being sure my FC never goes below the minimum as a result of a super sunny high-UV day. One, At night when I add cal hypo or bleach I can raise my FC levels 2 or 3 ppm higher than the recommended level so when it fades during the day, it fades to number above the...

@mknauss - Thank you for the advice. The test I shared via screenshot was done at the end of a sunny, high-UV index day. My test results were 2 after a full day of sun, so I added cal hypo to bring my FC to 5, using Pool Math, of course, to help me know how much cal hypo to add. 😀 Are you saying...

Short version: Can I safely use 73% cal hypo one day and then try the bleach method and then switch back if I don’t toting lots of bleach around? More detailed version: This is my first summer with my 19k fiberglass pool. My pool builder is my pool installer. He said treating water means just...