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Folks - Today I sort of screwed up and left to go mountain biking over lunch and forgot that I had started draining the pool. When I returned, the water level had dropped well below the return outlets. I normally drop the water level 2" below the outlets so I can blow out the lines and then...

Just sharing my experience here - I finally shut down the pool this past week and opened up my cartridge filter for its first cleaning since it was installed the first week of June. I've continued using skimmer socks and have a pre-filter which pulls out a lot of the heavy stuff that comes in...

Folks - I'm gearing up to remove my 36sqft Pentair DE filter and install a 420sqft Waterway filter. We had a deluge of rain the past two days and my pool is nearly overflowing. This got me to thinking - do most cartridge filter setups have a three-way valve that allows the water to be...

I need to replumb part of my pad in order to install my new cartridge filter. I'm going to add a three valve to bypass my heater, a check valve behind the heater return to protect from the SWCG, and intended to add the flow meter below. After looking playing with the flow meter I'm a little...

Folks - We have three of these old school fountains that were really popular during the '90s. I'm working on repointing the brick work on our wall and noticed that basins are leaking around location where the supply line enters the basin. The water is running down inside of the brick work and...

I'm getting ready to install my new Waterway 425 filter and plan on installing a bypass for the water heater. Sort of a dumb question that I couldn't find the answer to - I bought a Hayward 3 way valve, does it need to mounted in a horizontal orientation? All of the installation I've seen...

Anyone out there have experience converting the Pentair FNS Plus to a Pentair Clean and Clear? I've been looking at the pictures and diagrams of the two models and they are appear to be the same shell with the only difference being the internal manifolds. I currently have a 36sqft FNS which I...

Are there any methods to test CYA outside of using the "drop test" method with the black dot? I am struggling with it as it seems pretty subjective. About a month ago I accidentally dumped some stabilizer in my pool instead of calcium hardness increaser. I was pretty upset over it and my CYA...

Back to: I wanted a Porsche vs. the wife wanted a puppy "for the kids". I lost and we now have a puppy and not a Porsche. Anyway, she had me installing over 1000' of underground dog fence this weekend, part of the chosen layout was to have a loop around the pool. For some background, we...

Folks, I could use some advice on balancing my water. I noticed two small scale spots forming on the water line so I took a water sample over to our local pool store to analyze. I believe they use some sort of spectral analysis by BioGuard (See pics below) I've plugged the numbers into the...

I was fairly productive this past weekend knocking out a few items on the pool section of my "To Do" list. Installed CircuPool CORE55 SWG Installed Pooltool Zinc Anode Installed all new DE grids - bought these for $85 on sale this past Winter. OMG what a flow difference. I need to run to the...

I recently ordered a CircuPool SWG from DiscountSaltPool.com taking advantage of their $10 upgrade deal. The owner suggested I might want to install a pre-filter and I'm considering doing so. I haven't found much information about them other than a few videos on YouTube demonstrating how they...

Moved from here.. Considering SWG -- Horror Stories-- Advice? I was going to start another thread on the same topic but figured it was better to piggy back off this one. (Edit by Jim R. You were right.. you should have started a new thread.. :mrgreen: ) My pool is about 36 x 16...

Folks, just sitting here waiting for a small snow storm to roll in and I was thinking about things that need to be addressed with the pool this coming season. This past summer I had a lot of issues with the pool that came with our house back in June. The pump that came with the pool was a...

Hey guys, I could use some advice about winterizing my pool here in north central Maryland. I've read several pool winterization techniques online and watched a few You Tube videos. This weekend I started the process by ensuring it was balanced and hitting it with non-chlorine shock. Then I...

Folks, My new Waterway Defender 140 VS pump has arrived and I'm getting ready to replumb everything on the pad. During the process I plan converting the plumbing to 2" from 1.5". The plumbing had significant suction side leaks when we bought the house and as you can see I sealed it up with a...

Be bought our house a little over a month ago; the pool is now my official hobby - Cleaning, testing, playing with the pump, rebuilding the pump, locating supply side suction leaks, cleaning, frog removal, cleaning, more frog removal, more pump fun, cleaning, boring my wife to death with...

Does anyone have a Waterway pump? We moved into our house late last month and have gone through some new pool ownership growing pains. See thread - New Pool - Alkalinity Off & H2O test discrepencies In short, I rebuilt my Hayward Superpump (1.5hp) with all new seals, replaced the union...

Folks, We bought a new house a few weeks ago that much to our childrens' delight came with a 16x36 inground pool. Pool maintenance is now my new hobby. I spent several weeks trying to balanced out the chemistry and trying to get the pump to working correctly. Week one in the new house was...