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Hello, Yea that was my first thought, I did open and re-close it. The pic is the current state. Blue circled valve is closed. Thanks

Hello, I have an above ground pool with a Hayward H400FDN natural gas heater. The heater is ~6 years old. Upon opening the pool this year I noticed that the heater was not warming the water as it was years previous. Previously, when the heater was running the jet output in the pool was quite...

All the plumbing is 1.5" with the exception of the intake for the SWG cell it is a 1.25". I went through and vacuumed the bottom of the pool again tonigjht, there was a significantly less of the debris since the weekend when I last vacuumed (I attached some pictures). I am going to continue...

The filter I did just clean on Monday, first time I had it open since it was installed last year. It was pretty dirty. I will take some pictures today and post. I will also check the piping size, I believe the pool company installed 1.5" piping for plumbing.

The current cartridge filter I have doesn't seem to have a vacuum to waste, would that make sense? My last sand filter had that option with a muliport on it. I don't recall any algae bloom but I've had this issue since opening this year, the weather has been pretty blah here so we haven't used...

Nothing visible I could see on the filter in terms of tears. I re-seated the filter, will see if that makes any difference. If I brush the debris it does cloud up, it doesn't just move along. Would dead algae be too fine and pass through a filter?

Took apart the filter and doesn't look like anything wrong to me. I attached a few pictures for any other opinion.

Will check tonight and post some pictures, thanks Mark!

Since I didn't' drain the water in the filter over the winter, could that freezing not have caused some issues to the media?

This is my first year with a cartridge filter, so I only opened it once to clean so far. Prior I had a sand filter. When you say larger filter, do you mean the Effective Filtration Area: SQ FT? I was checking the Canadian site I usually buy the pool products (PoolSuppliesCanada), they only...

Thanks for the feedback Mark. Agreed on the ColorQ results, I wonder if my reagents are bad. I'll contact the company to get further information. The current filter unit is only a year old, I took it apart for the first time a few days ago to check and clean it. At that time I wasn't really...

Hi Mark, Thanks for the response. I realized my initial post was unclear, the water is actually quite clear. I can see the bottom everywhere. I do have debris at the bottom of the pool, looks like dirt. I did go through this past weekend and vacuum all I could see and today I am seeing clumps...

Hello, My pool wasn't as clear as it has been in previous years and I believe I broke my cartridge filter over the winter due to me forgetting to drain the filter unit. I took it apart yesterday and many fans look damaged. My current filter is a Starite PLM150, I found the replacement cartridge...

I ran the OCLT, results from last night ~10pm: FC - 8.55 tCl - 9.88 I left the pump running but turned off the SWG. Results from this morning ~5:30am: FC - 8.37 tCl - 9.77 From my understanding reading the info that small amount of loss is acceptable and I wouldn't have an algae issue. I...

Hi Richard, Thanks for the info. Bought some liquid chorine and put that in the pool will get the levels up and do some testing.

Hi Folks, Hope everyone is doing well in getting their pools started for the year. I got a new pool installed last year, went with a salt water pool with SWG. Cleaned all the debris out of the pool, got the pump running this weekend. Ran my initial test and got the following: FC - 0.31 tCl -...

Hi folks, This site has always been great help to me so I'm hoping I can get some information on this. I am up in Northern Alberta, our above ground pool (33' x 18') liner was damaged from the wildfires and I am looking to get this replaced. We don't have any local companies that specialize in...

Hi Texas, thanks for the quick response. With regards to the tabs, I had purchased a floating duck which takes tabs (before I knew anything about pools), needless to say I have never used it. This may be a dumb question but I would assume if I use this then I can't use the solar cover (No...