Brand new Desjoyaux pool owner

[dezufnoC]

Hello all.
Brand new pool owner so I will be doing a lot of reading here before I ask any serious questions. Looking to see if there are any other current Desjoyaux pool owners here. A quick search found some owners scattered around over the last 8 years but not too much recently. Just lookin to see who I can bounce questions and thoughts to.

Thx.

 

[JamesW]

Welcome, we are glad to help.

Desjoyaux pools really are not too different from any other pool except for the filtration system.

Do you have pictures of everything?

 

[dezufnoC]

A couple of quick pics including my dolphin m600 that I absolutely love. Filtration system is pretty simple for a simple minded person like myself. Now I need to focus on the chem levels to make sure I can enjoy this. 13x26 with 8x6 tanning ledge and about 13k gallons give or take.

 

[JamesW]

Looks good.

Isn't the basket supposed to have a filtration bag?

 

[dezufnoC]

Yes the bag is located directly under the basket. Supposedly all I have to do is rinse off the filtration bag and clean out the basket daily. At least that is what I was told.
I've only been up n running for 2 weeks but I'm a little leery of taking samples to my neighborhood pool store cause I feel like they are making me buy too many needless chemicals. I like to know exactly what I'm putting in here.

 

[JamesW]

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