Hi All, First off, thanks a ton for all the advice and suggestions being offered. Never owned a pool before and last year we bought a home which came with a pool. I was looking to get to know about the pool and stumbled upon this forum..and ever since I've learnt a lot and still learning..First thing I did, last year after enrolling was to ditch all of the di/tri chlor which the previous owner had bought and replaced them all with 12.5% hypochlorite and had a pristine pool all last year.
Unfortunately, I used the pool company to close the pool last year since I was still relatively new to pool ownership and wasn't home when they closed it and didn't get the chance to clear up all the dead leaves. Those guys just closed it in spite of all those leaves and I was hoping for the worst when I opened the pool last week. To my surprise, the water was almost clean despite the dead leaves and I waited no time to dump 4 gal of liquid chlorine and in less than 3 days, I've this.
My actual problem being that one of the suction skimmer has no flow at all though the other one seems to work fine and the filtration is going through that one skimmer. I believe the deep end drain is working fine too. I believe there is something stuck in the plumbing and I've ordered the Drain King declogger and will try flushing out the skimmer line once I receive it.
The real concern now being, the perimeter rope light (fiber optics) seems have been broken and I'm not sure if they any longer sell those. Any advice on how to remove that safely?
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, I used the pool company to close the pool last year since I was still relatively new to pool ownership and wasn't home when they closed it and didn't get the chance to clear up all the dead leaves. Those guys just closed it in spite of all those leaves and I was hoping for the worst when I opened the pool last week. To my surprise, the water was almost clean despite the dead leaves and I waited no time to dump 4 gal of liquid chlorine and in less than 3 days, I've this.
My actual problem being that one of the suction skimmer has no flow at all though the other one seems to work fine and the filtration is going through that one skimmer. I believe the deep end drain is working fine too. I believe there is something stuck in the plumbing and I've ordered the Drain King declogger and will try flushing out the skimmer line once I receive it.
The real concern now being, the perimeter rope light (fiber optics) seems have been broken and I'm not sure if they any longer sell those. Any advice on how to remove that safely?
Thanks in advance.