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There's gotta be a leak somewhere because the pump didn't prime today even after I've left it open only on the main drain of the spa. In fact, I have to bleed out a significant amount of air from the air valve at the filter every day, even if it has been on pool mode only. I thought the vortex...

This is in the spa, so I don't think there's a weir (at least not one that looks like the one for the pool skimmer), only a drain hole. The skimmer basket sits above this hole. I made sure the water level was halfway up. It runs fine for a couple days until the water level drops. I know the...

Hello, I am still a fairly new pool owner and still learning the ropes. I had my pool opened in early May and have noticed some issues since. They relate to a few different topics so I may need to make different posts in different forums. Spa vortex - first time this has happened in the 3...

Maybe I don't know what I am doing, but I can't seem to turn off the skimmer completely. The valve can only be turned to be partially closed either to the skimmer and main drain or closed to both i.e. positioned at 7:30 clock, 9 o'clock, or 10:30 clock positions and not in the 6 or 12 o'clock...

Hello All, I'm still a newbie with pool care here, so I'm wondering if someone can lend some advice. I think I got the chemistry stuff down now, but I still don't know a whole lot about the system. Pool guy came out a few weeks ago to open the pool and everything seemed fine. Somehow he...

I can get them out here perhaps in mid April which leaves another month to go. So you think I shouldn't add or do anything to the water until I get the filter going? Not even some chlorine and CYA as ant83 in the above post suggests?

I have a pump, but I would have to open up the plumbing and start the filter to circulate the water, something I prefer not to do myself. Sure it may be easy to veteran pool owners, but I'm too scared I'd burn a motor, blow a pipe, etc and spend more money trying to fix it. I want to see how...

Would it just be easier to drain and refill the spa every few weeks then, so I don't have to start running everything? I haven't learned to open a pool/spa yet so I'd have to call the pool company out to do it. And if I'm opening one and not the other, I'd be paying for them to come out twice...

I will check the pool water this weekend, but I think my spa water is always worse off because of the lack of complete coverage from the elements during the winter due to the poor cover. So even though they share the same plumbing, shouldn't the algae still be contained only within the spa...

This may be a silly question, but can I leave my spa dry since it is above ground?

I hadn't planned on opening until May. Last year it was very time consuming to manage the pool (being a newbie and all) with adding daily chlorine, scrubbing, etc. I seem to remember going through at a gallon every couple days and needing to add muriatic acid weekly because my pH would drift...

I'm still a newbie with taking care of my pool/spa. This will be our third year as pool owners. The first year, I let a pool service take care of everything. Last year, I had them open and close and come every other week while I took care of the pool every day they weren't there. Learned to...

Greetings, I am a newbie at pool care. We moved into the house last year and had a pool service come every other week, but didn't know we still had to do some maintenance ourselves the weeks they didn't come. Luckily, our pool never turned green. This year I decided to learn about taking care...