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Came home yesterday and the pool was not running. After looking into it found the circuit breaker to both pumps was tripped. After more investigation found the start capacitor looked like it blew it's self a part. Have been eyeing going with a robot but refuse to pay the summer tax on a unit...

I don't understand what's going on. This is like the total opposite of what most people experience with their pools. I seem to be unable to keep my CYA up the last six weeks or so. After riding at 70 ppm for the spring and start of summer, right after the 4th of July my CYA was at 60 ppm. I...

Yesterday was first time heating up the big pool for swimming for a party. The water was at 75 so i set the Easytouch at 83 and gave the heater four or five hours to heat the pool. The Easytouch would not kick on the heater until i went to the manual heat mode. So after six hours the heater is...

On the CH test my test sample turned clear at 15 drops which is 375. The chart says it should turn blue so I kept going. After getting to 21 drops I stopped. Should I have kept going until it turned blue or just try again? FC 6 CC 0 TA 40(working to get it up some) ph 7.5 CYA 45(moving up very...

Alright, i'm jumping in. Just order the 25 lbs. of Boric Acid from Dudadiesel and will finish off with 20 Mule Team Borax for the last 5 lbs. By the way, has anybody been to Death Valley NP and seen the 20 Mule Team story with the how they got the borax out the valley. It must have cost a lot...

We have had at least 6 or 7 inches of rain in the last 2 weeks. My CYA was always 70 from time i took over the pool from PB in October. Now after all this rain it has dropped to almost 30, OK maybe just below 40 for sure. That's not possible is it? Unless over 1/2 the water was replaced, right...

OK, after 4 inches of rain in a week my CYA fell to 50 on a SWG pool. It was a little low before the rain but now it's even lower. I do not have any CYA on hand but i do have a few tri-clor pucks left over from when we had an above ground pool. Think it's okay to use them, i have been adding...

I think i have used every combo of valves to drain the spa and i have yet to get it to drain. The Easy Touch 8 even has a label with drain spa on it, yet nothing. I can slow the flow of water to the spa but not totally. Pool/spa are only 6 months old and the spa bottom has areas in plaster that...

I have to clean the filter/strainer at the beginning of the feed hose to the Kreepy Krauly Legend pool cleaner every 3 to 4 days or it will not move. It has a boost pump on it and a sole hookup on pool wall. Is this normal? I thought this would be filtered water going to the cleaner so how is...

Is there a way to tone down the force of the air from an air blower for a spa? The PB put in a 2 HP blower and the force of the air is almost beating you up when its on, as the wife says. Is a lower H/P blower needed or can you tune the existing one down? The spa is fine without the blower on...

They came and did the plumbing, set pads and installed the pool equipment yesterday(i need to go take some pics and update the build still). My wife thinks we need to extented our existing fence do people will not fool with the pool equipment/setting on said equipment. Has anybody had problems...

Just changed my mind and going to pay for the LED lights in the pool. Hey, he's going to spend almost 500 dollars on the regular lites(2 pool and one spa) why not use that and pay the difference for the LED's. So now my question is do i need/what the Intellibrite Controller now or can i wait and...

Getting started in SE LA. This was from Tuesday's aborted dig. It was too wet to dump the soil and truck got stuck.

Hi to all of you guys. After lurking on this site for about a month i joined after signing with a PB. Now in the process of moving walkways,patio stones,fences, cutting trees and etc. so they can get to my backyard. The infomation i found on this site has already helped me with which PB i used...