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I've had my house for about 2 years, and started using TFP this year. What a game changer! I have a problem with my pump losing prime. I've suspected a suction side leak for some time underneath a mid-sized spruce tree near the skimmer (intermittent sucking/gurgling sounds), but no real...

I will try to keep this short, but if any additional information, picture, or videos will help, please let me know. I will premise all this that I had a complete renovation of my pool last May 2023. Everything but the hole in the ground was replaced (pipes, skimmers, drains, pump, liner, etc.)...

Hey everyone, first post here! So I'm a 5 year pool owner, and have gotten along pretty well with DIY mode so far. This last winter was a perfectly catastrophic sequence of events, first identified and fixed a leak in pool, massive numbers of branches and leaves fell during the treepocolypse we...

I’m having difficulties getting my pool pump to prime. It’s a single-speed Waterway motor for my in-ground pool. Following a vacation and subsequent algae bloom, my pump became difficult to prime. I performed the following troubleshooting steps: -Cleaned cartridge filter w/ hose and...

Hey guys, I bought a house with an above ground pool so I’ve been trying to learn everything I can, but I’m having a tough time. I’m fine on chemicals, my water is nice and clear, but these are my issues: 1. Where the hoses connect to the pump and filter, they keep dripping. I’ve tried a few...

Hi folks. Just thought I would share what turned out to be a multi-day PITA on a two year old pool with very hard prime, losing prime over night and an obvious suction air leak. I have 100ft uphill run to the equipment, so spring opening restart is never super fun, but this year, it took me two...

I experience today one of the most baffling issues in all the months i have had my pool. I always fill the pool from a water feature that connects directly to my irrigation system, so that i control the fill time from my irrigation app. Today for the first time I decided instead to use the...

Hi Everyone! I had the WEP-6 motor on my waterfall pump short out so I replaced it with a Jacuzzi brand motor from Leslie's. I spent most of yesterday switching out the breaker on the pentair control panel and then connecting the electrical. I was scratching my head for hours until I realized...

I had a new Pentair Superflow installed end of season last year and noticed that during quick clean modes (vacuuming pool and shocking) the pump runs for a while and at some point mid cycle time faults/fails back to the 4 minute high speed prime. May be doing the same thing during regular...

Not sure what I'm missing. I feel like I struggled a bit last year, but eventually got it. But today it's just not happening for some reason. I've followed all the instructions I can find at various places. I've tried with the pool drain, I've tried with the shallow skimmer. I've tried with...

My pool pump turns on automatically at 6 AM every morning and runs until 2 PM. I recently replaced my filters and now the pump turns on but does not cycle the water. To get the pump to work I have to go out and turn the Jandy valve to spa drain, this will get water inside the pump basket, I then...

Hello, We keeping having to prime our pump to start pulling in water almost every time we turn it on. This just started happening this summer. We have a Hayward sand filter that we installed brand new two years ago. We didn't open the pool last summer, but the summer before that, we only had to...