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Ok so I followed the instructions on starting up new spa with Sodium bromide and shock with liquid chlorine. I did this at 1:30pm today. It shot way up as expected but it is now 8:30pm I can't seem to get it the bromine below 16-18ppm yet and I haven't even put the bromine floater in yet. Just...

Hey all I have this new 450 gal spa not attached to pool. I'm getting ready to bring online just waiting on a couple of parts. In the meantime, I have been going crazy on wether I should do Saltwater like my pool or Bromine. I'm not really considering regular chlorine because it is more...

Hi All, Quick question - Is there a BIG difference in efficiency to get one of the below over the other? I'm in Central California where winter temps get down to 40's and maybe a freeze here and there but no snow. Cover 1 - 30oz Marine Vinyl, 83" x 83" with 5" skirt , 4"-2" taper with 2lb...

Hello all, I hope you can help give me advice. I got a new spa from auction that obviously had a issue from factory. Found a very small leak like 1 drop every 3 seconds or so. So they put this black stuff everywhere to try and fix it, but obviously it's not where they put it. So 2 questions...

Hello, I currently have 90amp double pole breaker at the house main panel that feeds my Pentair Intellicenter panel. From the Intellicenter panel, I have space to run a 50amp breaker for my 240v spa. Does the GFCI have to be the 50A at the Intellicenter panel which is approx a 145 ft. run to...

Hello, I know this is a silly question, but I've searched up and down and just want to be sure I have my info straight. With the simple PH & Chlorine test kits that you can buy from Walmart that are Chlorox brand, is the Chlorine test testing TOTAL CHLORINE, or is it testing Active Chlorine...

Hello all, Haven't posted in a while. Trying to help my neighbor out. He had a big get together over the weekend with 3 days of swimming with 25 people or so every day in a 17k gallon pool with 105 degree days each day. So needless to say his pool was VERY VERY cloudy. I went over yesterday...

Hello All, Looking for some info to see if I'm doing things right and second to see if this is normal. My pool was built and finished April 2021. It is approx. 25k gallon. I always used 31% Muriatic Acid, but recently changed to Powdered Acid to see if it changed anything and still the same...

So we have 3 waterfalls on the new pool the largest being a 6' ft rain waterfall falling from 8' ft up the other 2 are 36" rain and fall from 3' ft. My Alkalinity has been holding steady for the past 2 months and that's with running the 2 smaller waterfalls. Now we have the large waterfall...

I checked the pump and limited are set to 3450 rpm and 80gpm, however when I go into intellicenter app and put it at anything higher than 30gpm it will not go as you can see on the screen shot. When it starts priming set to 3450 and it goes that high without issue. What could be causing this...

Hi All, As some of you may know I have a new quartz finished pool that has been filled up for about 4-5 weeks now. All chemicals are balanced out pH, and chlorine are 7.5 & 3ppm. We leave for vacation tomorrow for 9 days. I take care of the pool myself and so I have nobody else who can...

Here is the most recent ready from the AccuBlue at Leslie's: I've been reasoning some places say raise because it can be corrosive and not comfortable for swimmers? Others say it's fine for a salt pool? Fyi still working on adding salt to our new pool. I also bought 8 lbs. of CYA I'm going to...

Hello, Trying to find ways to lower my filter pressure. I only have 4 returns and soon to have 5 as I am adding the suction cleaning pipe as another return. The PB used 3/4" eyes. If I change that to 1" eye returns will it make much of a difference? Thanks!

Looking to replace the Check Valve my PB gave us. I removed the spring and saved about 200 watts!! What's the most efficient check valve today? Still need one to protect heater from IC40. Help.

I have the Intellicenter with IC40. From what I read this unit works well? Does anyone know if I can control the IntelliPH through the Intellicenter? I've read other posts that it doesn't control through the Easy Touch. Wanted to be sure before I bought it. Want to get it before I go on...

So our new pool using KrystalKrete Quartz was filled a little 2 weeks ago. For the first 9 days or so the PB put 9 gallons of acid in water so it can be acid washed using the brush 2-3 times a day. Yes I had to do it and it's a great workout for anyone looking for a free gym membership. So...

Hi all started running the filtration on my new pool. Have the Intelliflo VSF, with Pentair DE 100 filter, Aquacal SQ 225 heat pump and IC 40 chlorinator. Running pump at 30gpm for a 24k gallon pool. How does my wattage look.....to high, great...etc????

I know seems like a silly question, but I'm asking because our new pool just got filled, and we did KrystalKrete Quartz. This surface requires the pool company to dump 12 gallons of Muriatic Acid into our 24k gallon pool. The PB instructed us to brush for the next 4-7 days and we cannot run...

Ok I know this is last minute, but plaster goes in today around 2pm pst. There is some small cleanup left, drill holes, and exposed rebar that needs to be patched prior to quartz going in. So what is proper way to patch this or fix it so I don't have to worry about rust coming through the...

So they pool was out today and started installing equipment, electrical, plumbing etc. Here is the equipment we have: *Pentair Intellicenter 8ps *Intelliflo VSF- for pool filtration (Far left) *Pentair DE 100 filter *IC40 SWG *AquaCal SQ225 heatpump *Pentair VSF XF for 3 rain waterfalls (Far...

Hi All, Our pool says we will be plastering the pool this Friday. We are doing KrystalKrete Quartz - Verde Color. The pool builder gave us a option to either leave it smooth with some of the quartz aggregate and color stones we are adding somewhat coming through but he says it would be...

I'm using the Troublefree pool app. I just want to be sure I'm using it correctly...pool is Salt water and when I check Alkalinity it is at 70 and pH at 8.2, chlorine at 2ppm. So the only thing I should have to add is Muriatic acid to lower pH correct? The app says add 1 cup for the size pool...

Hello again all! Posting this to help my neighbor with a new pool that he just had built. The pool is 37'long x 19' wide, it goes from 3'6" to 6'6"ft. deep. It has a 11'ft x 8'ft. baja shelf and the pool builder is trying to tell him and is adamant that their pool is 29,400+ gallons!!!! I did...

Hello, As some of you may know we are in the middle of building our 23k gallon pool. Our pool builder gives us a quartz pool finish at no additional cost (so they say). So we went with it. Question is does anyone know how well quartz pool finshes hold up compared to something like peeble...

Is this normal? My neighbor has a new pool that was just filled a month ago. Here in California it is 75 degrees today. His Chlorine levels were very high like over 6, and his PH was over 8.2. He asked me if this was normal and I told him year round I tried to keep my pool at or below 7.8 ...

Hello All, Hope you can help with this one. Trying to help my neighbor setup his iAqualink 2.0 with his Jandy VS Pump and heat pump. I'm having a hard time in the Aqualink programming trying to figure out the following: Pool pump will from from 8am-5pm everyday I want the pump to filter from...

Hi All, Hope you can help me out. Added a new actuator valve and everything working right. Also, setup pool lights on program to come on with 1 touch setting. Notice when I turned lights on it was just click where they were working fine for about a week now. I turned off the brekaer and took...

Do sheer/rain descents only throw off a pools PH when ran or can it mess with other pool water parameters? Thanks!

Hello All, Looking to get another Heat pump for our new build coming up. I had a Gulfstream heat pump on my last pool and it worked good. I installed that heat pump myself so I have no problem doing it again. The new pool builder will install a Pentair UltraTemp 140 to go with the rest of my...

Hello all, Our pool dig has started!! I did have a question on best temps for gunite. I'll be provided updates of the pool here as it moves along as well as looking to you all for help and guidance. So far everyone has been great and so thank you all for that! Thanks! Mike