Hello all! I recently became the proud owner of my first pool. I recently bought a house over 40 years old with a pool that appears to have been there for most of it haha. The pool is an old diving pool that in the next 3-5 years we will be revamping. The pool was maintained fully up to transfer of ownership and a checkup yesterday (by a pool maintenance company) had them happy so i just need to learn to maintain things and not mess it up.
Current setup is single cartridge filter and single 1hp Hayward pump to a ~20,000 gallon pool (guessing from measurement) - a very basic setup. Wanting to control my family's chemical environment and having a tight budget has me on the path to maintain my own pool and i was lucky enough to find you guys!
I have gone through the entire Pool school and read most of the additional articles. I just got my K-2006C kit in the mail today as well as obtained (arbitrary amounts) of all the outlined chemicals in the TFP page (liquid chlorine, borax, ph balancer, etc all down the list).
As we are in a rehab process and not living at the house i have the ability to test and get things right over the next 30. I guess im apprehensive of 'pulling the trigger' and starting on my own. A couple of questions i have:
1) Are there guides to understand how long my setup is taking to 'cycle' the water and retest to see if im being effective or not?
2) Any advantage to updating to a higher hp pump without changing plumbing?
3) I am trying to get the prior pool maintenance people to come out and tell me when the filter was cleaned / replaced last - the pressure gauge is showing extremely low pressure drop and the current contractor suggested that its a very low hp system which might be it. Can i inspect the filter myself or to be safe should i just replace it and start anew?
Sorry for all the questions im excited and yet trying to make sure i take care of things right before i say no thanks to the pool maintenance companies.
Thanks an extremely excited to be part of the TFP community!
Current setup is single cartridge filter and single 1hp Hayward pump to a ~20,000 gallon pool (guessing from measurement) - a very basic setup. Wanting to control my family's chemical environment and having a tight budget has me on the path to maintain my own pool and i was lucky enough to find you guys!
I have gone through the entire Pool school and read most of the additional articles. I just got my K-2006C kit in the mail today as well as obtained (arbitrary amounts) of all the outlined chemicals in the TFP page (liquid chlorine, borax, ph balancer, etc all down the list).
As we are in a rehab process and not living at the house i have the ability to test and get things right over the next 30. I guess im apprehensive of 'pulling the trigger' and starting on my own. A couple of questions i have:
1) Are there guides to understand how long my setup is taking to 'cycle' the water and retest to see if im being effective or not?
2) Any advantage to updating to a higher hp pump without changing plumbing?
3) I am trying to get the prior pool maintenance people to come out and tell me when the filter was cleaned / replaced last - the pressure gauge is showing extremely low pressure drop and the current contractor suggested that its a very low hp system which might be it. Can i inspect the filter myself or to be safe should i just replace it and start anew?
Sorry for all the questions im excited and yet trying to make sure i take care of things right before i say no thanks to the pool maintenance companies.
Thanks an extremely excited to be part of the TFP community!
