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I wouldn’t worry about the treated water having Neutra7 in it. It’s just an acid-base buffer used to correct the pH imbalance of acidic water supplies. It won’t affect your hot tub chemistry much at all.

Yeah. You definitely want to close a pool when the water temp gets below 60F and you should definitely bring it up to SLAM level. Otherwise …. pea soup awaits you … maybe you shouldn’t be the one rectifying the mess 😉 Some light reading for your hubs -...

what was you CYA level when you closed the pool last year? A zero CYA reading with smelly green water could potentially mean ammonia is present. That will make slamming the pool all the more hard.

And check all the wiring harnesses … rats and critters LOVE to chew up wiring … it’s like Twizzlers to them …

It’s unusual for fan motors to die. If the fan spins freely and easily and there’s no shorts to ground on the coil, then it’s unlikely it’s the fan. I would look at the contactor next. They are mechanical and if anything looks charred or burnt, replace the contactor. They take a beating...

Unless you have a meter with a capacitor tester on it, you can’t really know for sure if it’s good. It doesn’t take much sag on a capacitor for it to stop working. The only other way to test them is to monitor the peak voltage at startup (again, you need a good meter for that with a...

Is to combo capacitor, meaning there’s a COMMON, FAN, and HERM connection? Herm is the compressor. You have to test all sides of the cap. One could be done and the other could be dead.

I do believe even the “old” master temp (my 2013 MasterTemp qualifies as “old”) had a cool down built into the controls in the sense that the blower runs for a few minutes after the call for heat ends and the heater will not fire up again for a few minutes after the end of a heating cycle to let...

There are ways that you can "hack" your EasyTouch panel to add additional relays ... BUT ... it requires you to be comfortable doing some "light" low voltage electrical rewiring. Basically you add another 120v/24v transformer and then use any unused AUX relays to drive low voltage DPDT switch...

If you are on the desktop website you can click on the search Search box and then click on the "Advanced" tab. The advanced tab allows you to restrict the search to specific dates, usernames, etc. If you just tap the "G Search" button, it uses Google to search the forum posts and that has its...

That’s a 175 sq ft cartridge filter … I wouldn’t consider any filter on my pool less than 320sf and, when I ditch my QuadDE and convert to a cartridge it wil be a Pentair CCP 520sf cartridge filter. Bigger is always better when it comes to filters.

Calcium hypochlorite shock is know to cause temporary cloudiness and then calcium scale as it is not 100% hypochlorite but a mixture of cal hypo as well as other caustic compounds. Use of cal hypo will strongly raise the pH of the water. So, along with dead algae you could also be seeing fine...

If you want to get even better flow/energy performance … get rid of that dinky cartridge filter and upgrade to a much larger size. It’s a bit of running joke around here that you can always tell it’s a Florida pool by just looking at a picture of the filter. For some reason, FL pool builders...

So ... I'm always looking for possible problems (cuz I was trained as an engineer and there ain't no such thing as perfection ... including my grammar) and so .... Let's hear your thoughts on those actuators driving the Jandy NeverLube valves??? As I see it, those actuators are sitting right...

The biggest thing that kills heaters is having pool water that is out of balance chemically with low pH being the biggest culprit. Inline trichlor feeders are the biggest killer of heaters because they create a corrosive stew of chlorine and low pH when the pump turns off. Even though the...

The article is a fine primer on corrosion and the author does a decent job of bringing the issue down to the level of the reader. As he states at the end, corrosion is far more complex than can be stated in a 2 page article … there are thick textbooks written on the subject! The zinc anode...

The only way to repair them would be to drain the pool and inspect the cracks. If they are less than the width of the quarter, then it will be impossible to fill them with plaster patch. So they would have to be keyed to make a wider channel and then patched. It will look ugly no matter what...

Do you have a picture of this area and/or an engineering design drawing for the beam attachment? Is the screen enclosure permitted separately from the pool build?

Depends on how you mount it but no filter fills all the way to the top so water can drain back. Even when running there will usually be a small air pocket at the top where the air relief and gauge is. When the system is off, the air pocket is usually bigger. This allows water up at the gauge...

Also that’s the wrong style gauge to use. The gauge you should install is one where the brass nipple is on the rear of the gauge, not the bottom. That way it reads easier AND, more importantly, water doesn’t get trapped inside the gauge.

Your chlorine is probably very high. DPD can bleach out at high chlorine levels whereas OTO (the yellow chlorine test) does not. I suggest you get a pool water sample, dilute it 1:1 with some distilled water, and try retesting.

Those are self-tapping machine screws. Obviously the one screw was not threaded and so when assembly was done it never cut the threads into the plastic. Just go to the hardware store and get an exact match to the threaded screw you have and screw it into the plastic hole where there are no...

What’s covering the perimeter drain channel? Don’t want to stub a toe …

Some stone waterfalls built around here use natural boulders and a special waterproof mix of mortar. If the waterfall has small basins built into it, then the basin can be hand-formed using hydraulic cement with a final layer of water barrier applied. The water barrier is typically a cement...

ASR cannot be diagnosed from the outside of the pool by looking at the plaster. Only a core sample or removing the plaster can tell you what you want to know. Your situation looks more like pools that develop cracks in the plaster that extend down to the gunite shell. Once the water is in...

Curious about the gutters for the overflow edges - how are they being finished ? I noticed they run to the infinity edge trough … how will they empty down that wall and what finish will be there?

Lower pH is better for H2S removal as the solubility of H2S in water is very sensitive to pH. When using aeration processes to remove H2S, a pH of 6 will drive most of the hydrogen sulfide into the gas phase. Unfortunately you can’t easily do that in a drinking water well but if your pH drops...

I think Robin may have been the proverbial “canary in the coal mine” in a previous life 😉 perhaps that explains the choice of her given name 🤔 What is the pH of the well water ?

Are you using regular GAC or catalytic GAC? If you can find a source of catalytic GAC, that may help reduce the H2S to sub-Robin levels …

I wouldn’t adjust anything. Just drain the water. Nothing will harmed.