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Hi Everyone! Since opening my pool over Memorial Weekend, the pool has been losing about a 1/4" of water per day. I assumed it was not from evaporation but I did the bucket test anyway, which confirmed I have a leak. The loss of salt after adding about 3" of water further confirms my leak. I...

Hello everyone! Yesterday I asked my daughter to test the pool chemistry. She said the calcium was at 250. I was a little surprised how low it was but the pool has been out of commission for about three or four weeks due to a pump failure and the chemistry wasn't being tested during that time...

Hi All! I recently bought a new pump to replace the one that failed. In the process of installing it, I needed to reconfigure some of the plumbing. I've read that ideally the inlet and outlet pipe length should be at least a 5x the diameter of the pipe. In my case 10". How critical is this rule...

Hi, I bought my home back in 2014 and it came with a pool. I would not have been able to maintain the pool on my own if it weren't for the information and advice members on this forum have posted. So thank you very much! Yesterday afternoon, something went quite wrong and the pump died. The...

Hi, I recently installed a Pentair IntellipH. My troubles started immediately. I ordered the unit from Amazon. Got it in two days and was ready to install it but found that the controller was missing the plug to connect to the pump. Amazon is awesome and sent me a new unit. Two days later, I do...