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This is my first pool in a house I just bought... So I know very little about this stuff. Any help is much appreciated for this Houston newbie... I read that to prepare for the winter storm I should leave the pump and waterfall running to prevent water from freezing in the pipes and...

Hello everyone and Happy Holidays. I have been waiting patiently for a deal and one popped up in my area for a used hot tub. I purchased a 2007 Hot Springs Envoy which is a 5 seater 450 gallon tub off of Facebork Marketplace for 600 bucks. Here's a photo of the listing. The guy selling was...

Howdy! first time on this forum, hope everyone is having a good day. I'm trying to replace the circulation pump in a Balboa EL Neptune (pretty sure that's what its called) Original pump in Hot tub was a Waterway cp-1/15-1n22a 3410020-0E motor The pump motor specs are labeled as follows 1/8 H.P...

Got my TF 100 in today! Wooooo! Time to Slam out and fix this cloudy, neglected for 5 years, mess of a pool. Currently the pool is blue but cloudy. Found out today the bottom manifold of the Hayward is cracked. New one getting picked up tomorrow. New filters to be delivered today. Results as...

As the subject says I am a first time pool owner and definitely It looks like I have bit more than I can chew by purchasing a house with an infinity pool (22K gallons). Only three weeks in the house and I haven't been able to completely understand how this pool with a spa in it works which...

Hello, all! This site has been eye-opening to say the least, and I’ve loved reading your posts and comments on here. I’m Alie, business owner, wife, mom, and pool owner. (Although,it’s a really tiny pool.) But even tiny pools have problems and so I ventured here to see what I could find out...

Hi folks I am new to the forums, please forgive me if this should be obvious. I am the lucky owner of a 15' x 48" intex prism pool. I've been scouring the forums to learn what kind of ground work prep I need before I set up the pool. Based on what I have read, this is roughly what I plan on...

Hi, I'm a new pool owner, pool was filled about 5 weeks ago. Up until last week I was manually adding dichlor and dry acid to keep the pool balanced, and didn't have any issues. Last week I added salt to 4000 ppm in preparation for the installation of a SWG, after adding the salt I had issues...

Hey everyone, I am so confused on what to do with my pool at this point. Last week it turned green. Our chlorine was low, ph was low. Husband added stabilizer for some reason and that’s when it went all shades of gross. So after acquiring a more precise Taylor kit (the big one) we tried...

Hi, I am from North Florida, where the current temps are in the upper 90’s right now. So glad we have a pool! My husband and I just recently took down an 8 year old 24’ round Intex pool, and replaced with a 24’ round hybrid resin/steel above ground pool. I was going to go with a saltwater...

Hello, Purchased a home in 2016 with a 16x32 pool that our pool company stated was probably built late 70s. So the coping is wide like what would be on an above ground pool which they no longer make I guess so we cannot replace the existing and also our concrete decking is caving inward...