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There are a lot of inexpensive solar options that you can craft yourself with the black poly-pipe and your existing filter system. The goal with pool heating is to slowly heat a lot of water by a little bit, and not a little bit by a lot. I doubt you’d see much of a result if any from those...

I liked this video, and perhaps some of the others may be able to give you additional tips and pointers. From what I gather you need to confirm your leak first, so finding the hole in the liner where the water is leaking and then confirming it with dye.

Welcome to TFP! We do a lot of irrigation down your way, beautiful area. I love the concept of finding old and making new again. Extremely satisfying when all goes well and a life skill that will end up saving you loads and loads of money while keeping the family happy at the same time. I had...

Hey all! Just want to add my two cents for the OP. Welcome to TFP, I’m mainly a lurker here but I do enjoy reading the posts and occasionally saying hi. I’ve never had a large pool, but my 18’ round is just enough to eat all my spare time at home. I’d always been familiar with the chlorine...

Well, after double checking and paying more attention it would appear my Phenol Red has expired or was exposed to the sun. It was coming out orange. I bought a new 6-way test kit and double checked my numbers. pH is 7.5 on the nose. Everything else was the same.

I’ve never had to add baking soda as our water from the tap is highly alkaline and mild on the pH side. Fun fact, we pump our water straight from the lake like other Milwaukee metro communities but Oak Creek won the statewide city water tasting, so maybe they do this intentionally lol.

Thank you! I’ve been fighting the higher TA lower pH for two seasons now, and I’d like to try and stay on top of it this year. This definitely helps boost my confidence. I am curious though, are we talking days? Weeks? At the end of the day I’ll take your advice and run the pump longer during...

TA 130 TC/FC 3 CYA <30 PH 6.8-7.0 CH 180 Temp 62°

Hey all, quick question. My pH is low (6.8-7.0) and I want to raise it without raising my TA, so I have pointed my return eyeball up and am aerating in the only way I can. Is this effective? And how long can I expect this to take before I raise my pH level? I’m in southern WI so I don’t normally...

Sorry, I should have clarified! Going along with the inability to vacuum to waste. I should preface by saying I absolutely love my filter! And adding a “T” after the pump, before the filter with a couple of ball valves will do just fine in place of it. I guess I just didn’t see how vacuuming...

Does it just pull out as shown? It seems easy enough

I just got done rereading the Perflex manual as I do every spring. It actually mentions vacuuming specifically. The manual states: “VACUUMING Vacuuming can be performed directly into the filter whenever needed. For fastest results, regenerate the filter before and after each vacuuming...

So I have a question. I have an 18’ Coleman AGP. I installed a Hayward Perflex filter on it and precoated with DE. Over the winter some mice had gotten into the filter (on the bottom AND top were nests, cleaning the finger nest that was plugged with a winters worth of mouse Crud was fun let me...

Edit: I see the experts have chimed in again since writing this novel of a reply. Follow their advice to a T, you’re in good hands here as I’ve always found out! Hey Patti, I’m new to the pool game or rather spending this season refreshing my memory. The first step is getting free chlorine in...

She looks nice! You might want to keep an eye on the wood blocks and be prepared to swap out if needed though… Maybe they will stand up? We have an 18’ Coleman on an old concrete pad that is about 2” off level on the bottom 5 legs. I was going to go with the wood for those five posts but I...

Just an update for those in the future, JB weld is holding solid! Pump is running flawlessly at 10psi, no DE found yet! I’ll update again in a month or so, but definitely an easy bandaid if you can’t get the part right away

I’m praying! My thought process is if DE is leaking it’ll leak from the bottom sheet, and the top sheet is primary there as a structural element to hold the tubes and add strength when bumping. Also I noticed the top side of the bottom sheet only had cracks around the bump rod and four of those...

Hey everyone, now before you go in on me let me promise you if this doesn’t work I promise to do it right! I recently acquired a Perflex EC40 filter from marketplace. I figured it would be awesome for our 18’ Intex. Well upon further inspection I found the tube sheets (both top and bottom) were...

Bought a 24' by 52" Intex on CL and can already see some holes (but of course the ad stated absolutley no holes) and this entire thread has made me very excited for installation time next spring. I'll go with the 24'x52" standard overlap 25ml cracked glass liner on Amazon and see where that gets...

This was just something I had in my head and obviously if I were to do anything I'd have something a lot more professional drawn up. Basically I would wish to use the spa year round and close the pool in the winter. I wouldnt use the heater to heat the pool directly, id have it directly plumbed...

Hi there all! Its a ways off however my dream pool has become plans on paper. I envision a 16x32 IG vinyl pool ranging from 3.5' to 8'. Also there would be a spill over spa that could be ran when the pool was closed. I'm pretty new to pools however I feel like the plumbing is pretty self...