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So I was very proud of myself this year, as I fixed (or at least thought I fixed) a few big filter problems (rusted bump shaft that wouldn’t move and the little back flow preventative flap between the pump and filter). I had to disassemble the filter to accomplish this, so I’m wondering if I...

I'm in the market for a reasonably priced automatic pool cleaner, and was looking for recommendations. I have a 24' Above Ground Vinyl liner. A couple hundred dollars is probably my price cap. We get a lot of leaves, pine needles, "helicopter" seeds, and duck poop! So it would have to...

So, when we closed our pool down in the fall, we did the normal thing of putting the pillow in, draining the water down past the return jet, etc. Well, we noticed about a month ago that the pool water level looks like it's dropped significantly over the winter. So, I'm just wondering if anyone...

Hello, This is my first year closing down my pool for winter. I purchased an Aquador seal for my skimmer. Am I correct that I do not have to drain any water from the pool if I use this? Or would it still be recommended that I still do drain below the return jet? We do get well below...

Still a total noob, but learning! Just finished my first SLAM a couple days ago and passed the OCLT. Have been letting my FC drift back down, and just ran my full battery of tests. Here's what I got. FC - 3 CC - .5 PH - 6.9 CH - 175 TA - 50 CYA - 20 We had a huge rain yesterday which...

So, I have a filter with the "fingers", not the grids. Before starting to set up my pool last week, I did a full cleaning of the filter, soaking the fingers, cleaning out the whole filter mechanism, etc. Added new DE, good to go. My pool was very dirty, so we had a lot of algae to clean up...

Started on Saturday afternoon, but here's today's numbers: CYA = 35 FC Goal = 14 7:30 AM, FC = 11.5 Add 90 oz. Bleach 8:00 AM, FC = 20 8:45 AM, FC = 17 Major vacuuming and scrubbing done in this time period, floor was pretty dirty. 11:30 AM, FC =9 Add 100 oz. Bleach 12:30, FC = 17 1:30...

PH = 7.0 (best guess, pretty close) CYA = 0-20? (had tube filled to the brim, and could pretty much still see the dot, got a little hazy) FC = 0 I added 65 oz of Borax to try to get PH up to 7.2-7.3 range I added 56 oz of Stabalizer to try to get CYA to 30 Sound good so far? Can I start on...

Very new at this... I recently completely cleaned out my DE Filter, took it apart, soaked it in Muriatic Acid, etc. Set it back up today and filled it with diatomite. My pressure gauge before even turning the pump on was at 5. Assuming my gauge might be a little off? After adding diatomite...

Can someone tell me (or direct me to a link) that spells out the SLAM process in detail? I should be receiving my TF-100 on Monday, so I'll probably be starting my SLAM shortly thereafter. Went out and purchased 6 jugs of 8.25% bleach to start. How many jugs should this process generally...

Hello, Just recently purchased a new house with a pool. Trying to get my pump up for the season. It is a Hayward Power-Flo Matrix series pump. It worked at the end of last summer. Near the end of summer, after shutting off to recharge my DE filter, it wouldn't turn back on and was only...

I wish I would have discovered this site a few months ago, as I've learned a few good bits of info in the past 2 hours I've been looking at the message boards. I'll go through my whole story with my pool: Bought this house at the end of this past August, which included a 24 foot above ground...