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My house had returns in all the bedrooms. Bedrooms were still entirely too hot for my liking for sleeping, due to split level design and heat rising, and probably not enough airflow. One additional note for @setsailsoon, related to this, is I had an HVAC guy come over to see if they could...

I noticed in one picture your ladder was removed. Was that for access control? If you want a better ladder, I got the Confer 7200 which is much sturdier than the stock Intex (which is so flimsy). Access can be controlled by sliding the Roll-Guard down and locking it, if desired. This leaves the...

Oh gosh. I knew about these. I watched a guy on YouTube take several apart. They don’t even have properly insulated heating elements like anything in the US would have. It’s literally just a coiled wire connected to the power inside the water stream! They then stick a grounding wire in the water...

You don't want a leaky house. Ideally you want a perfectly sealed house, and then you use a heat exchanger for the required fresh air. See, the problem with leaky houses is the leak rate varies based on ambient conditions. If it's still, this could be almost none. If windy, this could be a lot...

If maintaining appropriate sanitizer levels, your water should not go cloudy. I only ever experienced cloudy water if I ignored regular testing and additions and all the sanitizer got used up.

Hmm. Now that you mention it, I've never seen moisture barrier in an attic either. Well, I'm also not in the construction business so shows what I know. :laughblue: And yes, I'm certainly not saying it's bad to insulate. An insulated, but unconditioned garage would stay warmer or cooler, on...

Also capacitors can fail on their own, but they will also fail easily if something else failed. Still, they are pretty cheap, so assuming you can get them out and are willing to spend the time needed to do so, you won't be out a lot of money if it doesn't work.

You sure there's not writing on this side of the capacitors? The writing on the top seems to indicate this should wrap around just like the writing you took a picture of. There should be a size (in μF) and a voltage. Once you have these, you'll want to measure the diameter of these caps to make...

Around here most garages aren't insulated either, unless they are planned to be heated and cooled. My house has an attached garage, that is not only not insulated but it's vented too. I think the issue is not just $50 worth of insulation, but if you start insulating, you need to properly install...

Yeah it’s just as fine to leave the pump out. If I did it, I’d leave the hose attached from the filter to the pump outlet to keep rain/snow/sleet out of the pump, keep the cover on the pump basket, remove the inlet hose, and leave the pump basket drain open (I’d probably remove it entirely).

I've got a 26' round Intex. Been up for two winters now. Set up in June 2020, it's now starting it's third season. The dual outlets to the filter I plugged with the black "top hat" plugs that came with my pool from the inside. I unscrewed the filter grids on the inside of the pool, unclamped the...

Of course the forum resized the screenshot, making the difference less noticeable. :ROFLMAO: Even Craigslist to the original is noticeable, though that's understandable given the original is an 11 MB, 26 MP image shot from a Canon RP full-frame mirrorless camera. Nobody wants to host huge...

Probably not a shocker, but I was posting my truck for sale and editing some details on both Craigslist and Facebook. I realized the photos on Facebook looked not great in fullscreen, compared to how I remembered them. I pulled up the Craigslist and Facebook ads side-by-side and the quality...

Funny you should tag me on this now. The one issue my Pit Boss had is the pellet container isn't sealed around screw holes or the window on the hopper, and water from rain seeps in and gets the pellets wet. I meant to seal the openings with silicone but didn't get around to doing that. Usually...

Just checked Menard's. A gallon of 12.5% was $3.99/gallon when we put up our pool in Jun of 2020. Menard's website still lists $3.99/gallon currently.

I politely but strongly disagree with the SWCG. Yes, spa demands change frequently. But you can easily deal with this. The primary demand changes are when the tub is used. So what do I do to make this easy? Simple. I set my SWCG to a level that maintains FC when I'm not using the tub. Then I...

The only other hole I've cut is for my skimmer. You could use the two factory inlets for the second pump if one pump is connected to a skimmer. I've also wanted to add a second skimmer in my pool for extra capacity (I am under some trees and get a lot of leaves). Perhaps the easiest thing to do...

I've not upgraded my pump. It's worked through two seasons now without issues. So I don't have a lot of advice unfortunately There are however fittings you can get to adapt the Intex fittings to industry standard fittings though, I found some to adapt my Intex hoses to a Hayward skimmer on Amazon.

I only do manual suction side cleaning. My skimmer vac plate to hose connection is always above the water level. I don't have issues with this sucking air myself, not sure why this is the case. I don't leave the hose connected though. My procedure to vacuum is to fill the hose with water by...

I shovel the snow off the steps and the patio between the tub and the house. You also need a broom or car snow remover brush to clear the snow off the hot tub lid before you can open it. I do this all wearing boots as normal, usually after a snowfall finishes and I'm already geared up to clear...

Yes, use the old water. Add the recommended amount. Open all valves so all jets run. Open all air vents (and if applicable turn on air blower). Run all pumps on high for 20-30 minutes. Wipe off any residue. Add half the amount your originally added then run the jets for another 20-30 minutes. If...

Well, as an engineer, this intrigues me. I'm actually not certain how much more efficient it is. My two speed pump uses a (rated) 2.7 A at 240 V, or 648 watts. Considerably more power, but how much does it run? First off, start up energy usage of a pump can effectively be neglected. There is a...

You shouldn't, unless you have an ozone system that is eating up all the chlorine. I have a Saltron Mini and I only need to manually add chlorine when we do long soaks. Otherwise, in between uses the Saltron produces all the chlorine I need. I can leave it for weeks and the chlorine levels are...

Update: I took a look at my inlets and there was some ice on the tubes coming out and some on the ground (just a little), indicating at least some small amount of leaking may some point, but it was not actively leaking.

Interesting. That's how mine is too. The plugs were in all summer and I haven't had any issues with them once things froze either. This is my first winter using them, last winter I had the water below the level of the holes.

If you originally had the water below the holes, there really was no need for the plugs. You can just leave them out and let the water drain out as it will, I think. I don’t think that would be an issue. How did you install your plugs? I installed mine from the inside and they have been fine...

The alert was marked as read automatically. I manually marked it as unread so I would be reminded later. I suppose it may have been auto marked as read later on. It just seemed I used to have more alerts saved. This was no more than a week, I thought in past I could see alerts a lot longer back...

I don't think it's possible to install a skimmer on an Intex pool such that the lid of the skimmer is higher than the point water will overflow the sides of the Intex. Here's my skimmer, it's installed about as high as you can go. You can't really put it much higher as the liner starts moving...