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I have a 12-year old pool also in NJ. It depends in some degree if you have an outdoor or indoor platform. If you are outside, like mine, it's less then a sheltered setup. My original motor died last year. Upgraded the WhisperFlo to a 2-speed and should be good for another ten or more. In 70...

I'm no electrician but I've successfully installed seven of these timers on five different pools. Anybody can mistake where buried conduits come from, but to not verify that the load is the load and the line is the line is just pitiful. It takes 30 seconds with a test light to figure out this...

Nope, but we've only done it this way since 1946.

I wore out the nylon brush on my Whale Tail and transplanted the 'tail' on to a stainless brush. (I have plain white plaster.) I was lucky; the screw holes lined up. Best of both worlds.

Sadly, it was decommissioned in 2003 but my family operated the second pool in my sig for 57 years, from 1946 to 2003. The painted steel 20x40 pool was built of tank landing craft(LST's) declared surplus after WWII and turned into pools by the Koven Steel Company of Jersey City, NJ. It could...

I've lived with these since 2004 on my A&S pool. A&S winterized it first year with expandable plugs (I let their service company do it the first year for warranty reasons, then fired them.) On mine, #9 plugs work best. I think mine are unglued because I have seen air bubbles escaping when I used...

I have a recipe for removing rust from chrome bumpers that works great. Since I have a swim-out and steps my pool has no ladders, so I haven't tried it on one. I did clean up the corrosion on the trim ring on my light this way. Anyway, try dipping a wad of aluminum foil in a small cup or bowl...

My 1946 vintage pool had no ground wires whatsoever. Of course, the entire piping system was steel galvanized pipe connected to an unlined steel wall pool, both buried in the ground. The poolhouse electrical system was grounded to the well plumbing (well piping also had a 2" feed straight to the...

OOPS,my bad. I shouldn't post and watch baseball at the same time--I was thinking fireman's switch. The Intermatic mechanical timer with freeze protection is this one...

Get the same thing again in a new plastic enclosure. They still last. http://www.amazon.com/Intermatic-T104P201-Switch-Plastic-Enclosure/dp/B003A46RNC/ref=pd_cp_hi_2

I use floaters a lot, whenever I travel. I never expect to get more than a week out of one. If you choke it that far down, and only have two pucks in there, you will get a max of 7.3 ppm FC as per PoolCalculator. That's well under 1 ppm per day. I'd load it up with the max(I get 5 or 6 in mine...

Good advice. I think maybe if it's not too deep (that is shallow end, right?), you could get in there with sneakers on and use just the vac hose in your hand to get larger pieces than go through the vac head and with less chance of hurting the liner. Mask and snorkel may help. Keep the hose at...

We had a lot of black poly installed when we replumbed in the 1960's. Everything always got two clamps if it was 1" or larger. It all worked fine until pool closed in 2002. I certainly would never bury anything without two clamps.

Wow, when I was eleven, it was my job to dilute and dose the pool with Cal-Hypo every night. No CYA in those days, just good old HTH granules in 100 lb. metal drums. Of course, I had never seen a computer. Now, computer-literate teenagers can't handle a little bleach.

Or you could try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DGRKMfUbwQ or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfezjNDNxNo I confess I haven't done this myself, because I found another way. But I will try one of these if I ever need to. My other way was to use an inside coupler. The amount of...

If that's not enough, be aware that the cartridges can fail and release all their little copper and silver pellets into the return stream. In my case, they did it while I was travelling and the little balls rolled all the way to the main drain and got sucked back into the pump trap. The...

If they are side-by-side, look for an oblong horizontal hole at the very top center of the back plate. You should see gear teeth and they should be moving. If not, it can be fixed with a new motor. Just take the old one to an Intermatic dealer, every town has one. If the gear is moving, you can...

I've been using AquaPerl in my Waterway DE filter for several years now. It seems to work just as well as real DE. I think I posted in a thread on it a long time back but it didn't get much attention. EDIT: Here it is: http://www.troublefreepool.com/using-pearlite-instead-of-d-e-t20136.html

You must run your pump a lot. I do fine with two 4-hour blocks. I definitely get a temp gradient on a hot sunny day, and a small one on a cloudy day due to convection.

For several decades, I have used an old-fashioned stainless steel Taylor on an insulated wire so that no copper is exposed to the water. It came with a rope but they rot away. I always have it about five or six feet down. Why would you take the temp at the top? That's usually several degrees...

Oh yes it was. When you have too many wires on a screw, the screw can be tight on one or two and the others will be loose and arcing.

I'm guessing too many wires bent around the screw and the connection started getting loose causing it to overheat and burn. You can only get two #12 or 14's on one of those screws if you do one on each side, not two going around plus one of those little white timer motor wires. I call crappy...

This is Brood II in the East. I've lived through three of them and always had a pool. They were positively brutal here in NJ in 1962 when I was 10. The carcasses covered everything--I mean everything--and the noise was infernal. My Dad, my brother and I would sit in the back yard and shoot...

It will work to cool your attic towards pool temp. Raising the pool temp, not so much--unless it is a very large attic and a very small pool. The thermal density of air relative to that of water is just too low to make much difference to a decent sized pool.

They have a 3-year guarantee. I had one that died at 2.5 years and I had a new one inside of a week. I've got five on the replacement. I think the Rule is the best as I never had a Little Giant make it through a season. I had two.

From the Polar web site FT7 FAQ's: I have a waterproof cordless phone. I can put it under water, and it survives, but it immediately drops any call in progress.

There are all different kinds of wells. In New Jersey's Watchung Range, we have been using well water exclusively since about 1950. There is zero iron (Officially: "Trace") and TA is about 50. Ours is too 'soft' for drinking supposedly, according to the lab tests, but three generations have done...

I think the lesson is don't hire an outfit without a proven track record and references you can check. No laws or permits would have fixed this mess as these guys had no intention of building a real pool.

One thing I have learned in my 50 years of maintaining pools is to store modern plastic hoses indoors in the winter and out of the sun in the summer. These plastics seem to suffer with freeze/thaw cycles and UV exposure. They probably should have made them black like electrical cable insulation...

I use mine once a week (I have no cleaner) and I have repaired several with no glue whatsoever. Just screw her on tight and put it to work. Never had one come loose. I never bother with swivel cuffs either. We did fine without them before they were invented and no swiveling goes on once the pump...