Recent content by JohnnyG66

I've excavated about 5 wheelbarrows full of gravel :oops: and found no pinches. I disconnected the water at the jet and turned on the valve. There is volume, but not much pressure. If I hold it straight up, I get maybe 2" of water column (this is with the 3 primary returns open). I have a...

Yes, for water. It’s 3/4” which, I think, would be pretty hard to crush, plus hard to imagine it got crushed equally on both sides? Regardless, I’m working to expose the manifold.

It's a new pool and we covered it late in the season last year, half full of water and already a good amount of "gunk" at the bottom. After getting it topped up and the equipment finally running last week, I tried the EVO first, but it clogged up in about 2 minutes. The algae and gunk was nice...

I thought I'd be clever with my pool build and I added a couple of Waterway Power Storm jets to each side of my pool steps (8' "sit n step"). I plumbed it using 1.5" PVC to back of the steps, then used a waterway 4 way manifold (2 outlets capped) and 3/4" flex PVC to feed each jet. When I...

After manually vacuuming, I set the EVO loose and after 2-1/2 hours, love the results! It picks up a few stones, the missing end caps for the stair liner bead that I dropped in accidentally, and several leaves that I didn't even know were down there.

Ouch! That looks painful! Looks like you backfilled with dirt? Settling/compaction and/or erosion probably caused your deck to sink. Really should have used gravel. Anyway, if the coping really is part of the wall itself, it doesn't appear to be structurally relevant, at least.

Dropped it into the pool for the first time yesterday and it did a great job...at clogging up with algae :) I was hoping to avoid a traditional vacuuming for this new pool's first cleaning after winter, but not so much! I was expecting too much, I know. On the plus side, it did help agitate...

I came to this section of the forum to start a new thread that I just ordered this model and to ask if anyone had any experience...then I found this thread :D Thanks to @Jimrahbe for starting this with an excellent review! All my questions have been answered, plus a lot more! I'm in Canada...

I installed a 36x18 polymer-walled vinyl-liner pool last summer. Didn't get everything finished by winter and still haven't flipped the switch just yet. I went with a Hayward VS 900 1.85HP. Can't tell you if I'm happy with it yet though, but it seems to have plenty of positive reviews. For...

Got the liner out of the track. Was quite easy with more sun, but especially rubber gloves (in my case, rubber coated fabric). The rubber gloves helped provide enough grip to pull the liner up, and a small screwdriver was used to coax the bead out. I pulled out about 2 foot sections at a...

...which leads to a question. Any tips on how to get the liner unhooked from the coping? I tried hot water and then a heat gun, along with a plunger to stretch it - no dice so far. Just can't get enough slack. Maybe just not getting it warm enough? Seems to cool pretty quickly.

If they won't do it, could you reduce the depth of the deep end to compensate, or is there a "rule" for that too?

Makes more sense to me. This can be an iterative process. Just tell them what you want to change and they should adjust.

We built a polymer walled pool last year (DIY) and got to the point of installing the liner, filling it to about 2/3, and backfilling. Then it was covered for the winter. Last Fall, I watched a video from "Swimming Pool Steve" where he mentioned liner coping failure on some polymer wall pools...