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Hey guys. Haven't posted in a while. We had 2 trees cut down right beside the pool last year. Well.... they didn't give me notice before coming, and I lost the last month or so of swim season because I was fighting sawdust in the pool.... a LOT of sawdust. I feel the need to mention I would rather deal with algae! I ended up putting the cover on because it got to the point that leaves were filling the pool faster than I could get them out. My Polaris 280 broke, as did my drive to clean the pool. A few weeks ago I thought "i'm taking back my pool!" and bought a 3900. I was so excited about it, and the thing is beautiful.... I didn't want to throw it in the frog pond so I decided to give the 280 one last go. That didn't go as planned. I broke out the leaf eater, to find the bag is dry rotted. The only thing I could find was a Michael Kors giftbag. It isn't mesh, so that didn't work either (she wasn't happy). FINALLY, I broke down and threw Wheelie (3900) in the pool. Fresh bag, plenty of pressure, rear jet aimed correctly, and no clear leaks..... he goes in circles, won't climb walls, tail drags, etc and I don't know where to begin. Water temp was 47* when I checked it a few days ago. I looked at all of the things mentioned above and I'm still lost.
With that said.... The pool is pretty bad. I know I should vac, but the limit of the skimmer basket or even in line leaf traps for the vac is discouraging to say the least. I need more of a 10 gallon leaf trap. Do any of you have those lying around?
Hey guys. Haven't posted in a while. We had 2 trees cut down right beside the pool last year. Well.... they didn't give me notice before coming, and I lost the last month or so of swim season because I was fighting sawdust in the pool.... a LOT of sawdust. I feel the need to mention I would rather deal with algae! I ended up putting the cover on because it got to the point that leaves were filling the pool faster than I could get them out. My Polaris 280 broke, as did my drive to clean the pool. A few weeks ago I thought "i'm taking back my pool!" and bought a 3900. I was so excited about it, and the thing is beautiful.... I didn't want to throw it in the frog pond so I decided to give the 280 one last go. That didn't go as planned. I broke out the leaf eater, to find the bag is dry rotted. The only thing I could find was a Michael Kors giftbag. It isn't mesh, so that didn't work either (she wasn't happy). FINALLY, I broke down and threw Wheelie (3900) in the pool. Fresh bag, plenty of pressure, rear jet aimed correctly, and no clear leaks..... he goes in circles, won't climb walls, tail drags, etc and I don't know where to begin. Water temp was 47* when I checked it a few days ago. I looked at all of the things mentioned above and I'm still lost.
With that said.... The pool is pretty bad. I know I should vac, but the limit of the skimmer basket or even in line leaf traps for the vac is discouraging to say the least. I need more of a 10 gallon leaf trap. Do any of you have those lying around?
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