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The phone app sees the poll but the app wont load. I get an error message saying there was an error.

To the TFP member who suggested irrigation tubing around the drain I salute you. Context, there was a post from several years back regarding a member's robot getting hung up on the drain cover of their pool. Thiey experimented with creating loops out of 1/2" irrigation tubing and filling it...

I went out and took a walk around the pool to check on everything and noticed bubbles (large ones) coming out of the returns, I headed over the pad and took a peek under the tarp and saw the pump basket was mostly full but not completely and there were bubbles in it. This is a new thing for the...

Hopefully this is no-one here but I just saw this, https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/pool-pump-equipment-explodes-plano-texas-frozen-solid/287-ca5a2c01-fc19-4865-942f-b87ca5e625ac?ref=exit-recirc Kinda Scary. Winterize your equipment folks.

It's like the artic here in Houston!

Pretty much rebuilding my dolphin CC robot (4 new wheels, bushings, brush pinions, brush bushings, treads, and drive motor). Since i have it apart, would it be beneficial to pot the control board to protect it against water damage in the event the seals fail again?

I have not acid washed the cell in the year and a half I've owned it. So i looked inside. Is this bad enough to warrant cleaning in acid?

Has anyone tried the swimables basket lids? They say theirs are made with 30% more materials which is appealing to me as my pentair lids are crazed/cracked around the sealing surface meets the oring. They are less expensive but if will fail faster than the oem it may not be worth it.

So my family and I have taken to watching Pool Kings. For those not familiar, its a reality TV show that follows people's pool builds from start to finish. One of the features I a lot of is an infinity edge which are typically finished woth tile. However, i have seen some where they finish it...

I have a Pentair Mastertemp 400 heater that was installed late 2021 early 2022. It has been turned on maybe a dozen times since it was installed. Went to turn it on today and I get the ERR SFS after about 2 mins of run time (probably less) then it got the point where it wouldn't try to ignite at...

I recently purchased and received the Aiper Hand Held Vacuum and wanted to share my experience with it. My goal with the purchase was to find a way to capture and remove the dirt and silt typically left by the rain on my sun-shelf, steps, and spa instead of just brushing it about the pool...

I recently downloaded screen logic for windows and got it all set up. Now, when I click on the "Pool" button to turn off the filter pump in windows, it doesn't turn off. The button in the windows app will pulse and the pump will stay running. In the android app the button will just keep...

I am can't believe this (well honestly I can considering all that I found on this build), the plumber who installed my fountain pump glued the standard threaded fittings into the housing. Even worse, I found out after I cut the pressure side return fitting off of the pipe to install proper...

Just found these in my search for unions for my IC 40.... Neat Idea if its reliable and works. https://www.naturalcurrent.com/savior-solar-powered-salt-cell-chlorine-generator-pool-30k/

I have a Master Temp 400 and am getting back to the project of installing a bypass using the actuator port in the heater. One of the questions I have am pondering is if the onboard actuator control in the heater has a freeze control mode similar to the easy touch where it changes the actuator...

I have a magic plastic valve that says it has a 2.5" spigot connection. Is this another way of saying the end will slide into a 2.5" piece of pipe?

I think it needs a slam.... Is it bad i want to try to fix it?

I opened the filter today to clean the cartridges and found the steel band around the top of the filter to be rusting and leaving stains down the sides of the filter bottom. Is this normal? I maintain my chemistry to be in the acceptable ranges but still got the rust. Any insight is appreciated.

Will the IC-40 not read salt when the water temp is too low to function? Only light on currently is low temp and the Screen Logic App shows 0 salt. Actual reading is about 3000ppm.

My travertine is starting to flake after the freezes from last year and this year. I see that some of the coping tiles have some sort of filler in them, is this just non sanded grout and is this the same as what I can get at Home Depot?

With the incoming 17 degree weather here in Houston, should i consider pulling the freeze plugs from all my equipment in advance or will freeze protection be enough to see me through the few cold nights?

I guess if you have to exchange some water, you may as well have some fun with it. Filled it up to the brim then had a wave pool!

I am getting a small amount of pebbles (maybe 2 teaspoons) in my robots filter basket when I rinse it out. I keep my chemistry pretty well balanced (see pool logs) and my CSI is kept kept slightly negative to keep my SWG from scaling. There are rough spots in the deep end of the pool, but they...

Just that, any ideas what it is? I found two one in each skimmer. It was rather unnerving, id rather find frogs.

Like many folks I wanted music around the pool but had no place for outdoor speakers wired to a receiver inside my house. I also didn't have a good place mount a full size receiver outside where it would stay dry. I have a fair bit of decking and a single blue tooth speaker didn't cut it. I...

I am in the process of installing a heater bypass to help reduce pump speed required for decent flow and decrease the pH rise I get when my heater fully functional (recently my master temp 400 manifold bypass valve bit the big one). So the question is, do i need a check valve to prevent flow...

Not sure if this should be here or under everything else, please move if needed. I recently had a failure of the bypass valve in my Pentair MasterTemp 400 heater. A potential reason as to why this occurred was there was to much flow going through the heater according to some posts (here New...

Ok so i have an issue woth my ic-40 that seems to have just started, the flow light is red and i get the railroad style red green flashing lights. If i turn everything off then back on again it seems to work fine. Any ideas? Not has been changed prior to this happening.

Completed my first bucket test after I found water next to the pool shell when replacing a feature valve. (The water was a foot below the valve and was there prior to removing said valve. Auto fill was off, equipment ran normally bucket was positioned on the sun shelf. Result, bucket lost more...

I clean my skimmers and such pretty regularly, and since we have started using the pool, i have been finding an oily ring in the skimmer body (kinda like a bath tube ring). I think its from the excessive amount of sunscreen everyone uses (myself included) to protect ourselves from the texas sun...