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Over the winter, I had a tab floater that had cool solar powered fairy lights that would float along in the pool. Now that the SWCG is back on, I really don't need the floater until next winter and I noticed it was cracked by a recent hail so it probably wont last too long. Does anyone...

For many parts of the country, spring is here with long range forecasts showing 70's and even 80's. Many pools have already reached the 60-degree mark where algae starts to take off, and many more will reach it this week. Its a bit early, and we will still likely get some sort of winter...

The wife and I are beach people and looking for ideas for a vacation in April/May of this year with just the 2 of us. We have done FL, Mexico, and the Western Caribbean a fair amount and are looking for something different. We were sold on the Maldives, but just read that April and May are...

I was bored and tired of sitting around the house, so I went for a walk through the hood including by a stream a few houses away. I snapped pictures showing ice-free moving water, while areas where the water was not moving were frozen over. The same applies to your pool, particularly in your...

I just went outside to check on everything and found that my backwash line from the multiport valve to the sewer line is frozen solid. During snowmageddon a few years ago it froze as well and I replaced it. When I replaced the PVC I added a screw top so I could take a peek and see if there is...

The kids and their cousins were going from pool to spa last night and ended up knocking off a single tile on the spillover. How would I fix this? Below are pictures of the spillover and the missing tile, plus the front and back of the piece that came off.

My IC40 is leaking at one of the unions, right at the "seam" where the two plastic halves of the nut come together. It looks like it was manufactured that way. Water is bubbling up at the seam and dripping onto the equipment pad. I can pinch the 2 sides of the nut together and the leak...

Posting for a buddy of mine who has travertine pavers that seem to be separating. He used the same builder as me and giving him a call, but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas. It’s been crazy hot, which I’m guessing is causing the issue and they had to redo this area previously for the...

With Hurricane Hilary having SoCal in its sights, and 4 potential storms in the Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico, I wanted to resurrect these tips from Allen for those in the path. The full thread is below and hope everyone stays safe! Precautions and Procedures During Heavy Floods When the rain is...

I was trying to help someone understand their pool today and cover the basics, but I'm stumped on how to tell him how to backwash. I believe it is a sand filter, but no MPV or the push/pull type valve could be found. Not the greatest picture and the label provided no info to me. Any ideas how...

This afternoon I added a bag of salt after backwashing to bring the salt back up. It was a single bag of salt, from Sure Soft at Lowes. I inspected it before I put it in and it was normal white salt with no oily residue like several have reported. I dumped it in the pool and ran the robot...

Hello fellow TFPers, does anyone know of a good forum/TFP like site for investing, specifically 529 college savings plans? My specific questions are around custodial plans. We just found out that my mom's "529 plan" is actually a custodial account that gets turned over to the kids when 18...

Is there a way to search for featured posts? If not, I would consider adding that to the next set of enhancements. I like to send skeptical newbies good examples of prior threads, but being able to filter to only those "featured" threads would certainly help narrow down the search especially...

We have a TV that is visible from the pool and spa that we really like using. College football Saturday was too much for our 6 year old Samsung (40") and it bit the dust. It was great for watching sports during the day, but watching a movie with darker scenes was challenging during the day...

I have had my Intellicenter for ~3 years and everything was working fine until yesterday when I noticed I could not access it via my phone. When I went to the panel it says "No ethernet connection...". I verified that the ethernet was plugged into the intellicenter and had a green light. On...

So... yesterday after cutting the grass for the first time and kicking up a ton of dormant bermuda grass dust into the pool, I decided to backwash once the skimmer did its job and sucked up all of said dust. After dinner I went out and kicked the pool into service mode, turned the multi-valve...

I did my normal spring checking of the SWG for any build-up. I was happy that there was none, and I screwed it back together by hand tightening. When I fired up the pump it looks like the union sprung a leak. It looks like it happened on a seam on the union. I assume I can just order...

My neighbor asked me for help/advice with 2 things on his pool: 1. The first thing is his multi-port valve has a small leak on the red circle where the seam from the top meets the bottom. Any ideas how to fix this leak? It is just a drip, but with winter coming I'm worried the leaking water...

My plan tonight was to watch a movie from the spa. I started it around dinner, and we all finished up and got our suits on and went outside to a cold spa. I did some basic investigating: The water coming from the jets is flowing normally The water from the jets is a tad bit warmer but...

We are going on vacation next week and I would like to setup a vacation schedule on my intellicenter to minimize running the pool while we are gone so I can worry less about having to add water since it is so dang hot. I swear there used to be an option to set a vacation schedule, but I'm not...

Our neighbor's equipment getting stolen is causing me to re-evaluate my security setup. My equipment pad is on the side of the house and we physically cannot see it from the house or the pool. It is visible from the street through the wrought iron fence and would be an easy target since the...

As we come off of this hopefully once in a lifetime event, my pool is still very frozen but we peeked above freezing for the first time in a week and are starting to see signs of returning to normal. Since I have never done this before, I'm sharing my plans in case I have bad logic and in...

So we just had our first blackout and I'm sitting here waiting for everything to cycle through before I go back to bed. The spa mode stayed on for a while, so I just checked the intellicenter and when it rebooted it turned my freeze protection off on my pool. Pentair needs to get their Crud...

Since the mods are considering changing the Everything Else section to "Crazy Texans this Winter", I figured I would poke fun at us a bit. Hope everyone's pools come out just fine in this crazy weather, and keep posting questions if you need help.

This has absolutely nothing to do with pools, but I am writing this to share our COVID experience over the last 2 weeks in case it may help others. I realize that this is a very small sample size of the entire COVID population, but is our real firsthand experience with COVID...

We are toying with the idea of heating the pool for christmas. I know the spa goes up about a degree a minute, but I have no idea about heating the pool. Is there a calculator or formula I can use to figure out when to start heating? My pool is 13.5k gallons and we have a 400k btu natural gas...

I have: 1. An overflow drain that will drain water to the deck drains and eventually to the yard/street that keeps the pool from overflowing 2. A backwash pipe that leads from my filter to the sewer. This is mainly used for backwashing, but you can also use it to drain water if you are...

Thank you for your service and hope you have a nice relaxing day by the pool.

The kiddo (15) woke up this morning with a 101 fever and we let him stay home from school and went to doctor this morning. He tested negative for strep throat, so the doctor said he gave him a 50/50 shot of it being COVID. By this afternoon his fever was barely registering ~99 after meds wore...

Last weekend I was low on calcium so I added 5lbs (now regretting that a bit) to get my csi less negative. This weekend I’m noticing a bit of film on the tiles. It’s not really crusty build up like I have seen in some posts. Do I clean it with pumice stone, MA, something else?