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  1. It a personal preference of yours. Solid covers hold leaves and water that have to be removed before opening. Plus you lose water when to much rain water collects on the top causing displacement. Although with a solid cover normally when you open the pool the water is generally clear. A mesh cover is going to allow water to run right through keeping the water level higher in the off season. Its much easier to remove a mesh cover in the spring time. But when you take the cover off your pool you may have a green mess so your a few days away from have a crystal clear pool. They are safer for children and pets. I hope this factors help your decision
  2. Jeff- Looks to me like you got 220 because those are 10 gauge wires but you need to be certain. Use your actron meter and set it to ACV 750 and put you black lead on to one of the red wires (port 2 that is shown in the timers wiring diagram) and your red lead to the other red wire (port 4 this is shown in the timers wiring diagram) You meter is either gonna give you a number around 220 or 110. That should put you in the right direction as to what kind of voltage your using
  3. Hayward chlorinators are known to leak at the lid... I call the them the leaky cups. You could try buying a new lid and that may fix it but for a little under $100 you can get yourself a rainbow chlorinator made by Pentair that will work almost flawlessly. And if you ever need to get parts for the rainbow chlorinator they are relatively inexpensive. I recommend the Rainbow 300 offline chlorinator rather than the Rainbow 320 inline chlorinator. They are easier to service if something happens to go wrong. My opinion on the Nature 2 systems is about the same as with the hayward systems. They both leak sooner than later
  4. Good idea! I have done that on a few in ground spas with a palm sander with 150 grit sand paper and it was a great success. Best of luck to you on your weekend project!
  5. I would not recommend painting over plaster. As a pool professional i would never paint over plaster. BIG WASTE OF TIME!! It will chip! I see nothing wrong with draining it and trying to acid wash it to get that "wow" factor of a white pool. Its a shame that you cant make surface smooth without re-plastering. You'd be better off saving up to get your pool re-plastered in the future. That is your best solution
  6. I think your problem with the skimmer has nothing to do with the skimmer itself. Your filter pressure is entirely to high for a 1.5 pump. Your filter should be reading a pressure of anywhere from 12 to 20 pound given that the filter is properly sized for your pool. Do you have any information on what kind of filter you have? Weather its a sand filter, DE filter or Cartridge? And size of it? When your able to bring that pressure down in the filter, by cleaning it, your skimmer should work like a charm. The size of your return pipes are going to cause some resistance driving your filter pressure a little higher but 35 pounds sounds to be entirely to much.
  7. When you remove your defuser and use your 1/2 open end wrench to hold the shaft from the back and spin of your impeller off. make sure you do not touch your new seal with your hands, use a paper towel or rubber gloves. New pump seals are just like expensive light bulbs, your finger grease can degrade the life expectancy. I believe that pump takes a PS-1000 pump seal or you can get an Aladdin pump seal, part number AS-1000 which is just as good as the pentair one. I recommend using a short piece of 1.25 PVC pipe to set the seal to motor side. Just tape the pipe lightly with a hammer and that seal should set in there just fine.
  8. You can avoid renting a portable vacuum to waste pump. When you open your pool shock it hard with at least 4 gallons liquid chlorine and granular chlorine. (granular is optional but desired, cover the entire surface of the water) When applying granular chlorine you are going to want to shut the pump off and let the granular chlorine make it to the bottom of the pool. (normally takes about 15 minutes) Start your filtration system and let it run overnight. Than set your multi port in the waste position and vacuum your pool. Than use your wall brush and brush the entire pool and if there is more sediment the following day, go ahead and vacuum to waste once more. Allow your filtration system to operate 24 hours a day until the pool is up to your standards than you may switch to whatever time setting you may have. Your filter is your best friend at this point. Again backwash once a day until the pool is up to your personal standards. Vacuuming to waste takes a lot of patients and a lot of trips back and forth to empty the pump basket. I wish there was an easier way to do it but patients is the key to your success. Best of luck to you!
  9. Being an ohio pool guy I close and open about 150 pools a year. With the snow and water build up on your pool cover, you are probably experiencing simple displacement. In simple terms. Picture your swimming pool as a bucket of water. If you had a bucket of water and put a smaller bucket of water in the larger bucket and filled it with water. While the smaller bucket is filling it needs rooms to sink causing the larger bucket to over flow. This idea is the same thing with your pool. Given that you have a solid cover (assuming it has no holes) id recommend getting a cover pump with float switch. Little giant makes the best pumps to withstand ohio weather. The less water and snow you have on your cover, the less water you will lose in the off season. Each one of the pools I will open this spring with be anywhere from 3in to 3 feet short on water. Depending on how well I the home ower/myself kept the water off the top of the cover. With the random warm days we get in ohio id recommend putting a water hose under the cover and bringing the water level back up in the pool while pumping water off the top of the cover. The more water you have in your pool, the less stress that will be on your pool cover. I hope this helps!!
  10. Keep as much water in that pool as possible over the cold months. The weight of the water in the pool is going to push against that liner keeping it flat and wrinkle free.
  11. I do not have an answer for question but I do recommend packing that new stretch of pipe in sand because you backfill to prevent that leak happening again. Best of luck to you! I hope someone here can answer your question.
  12. Pool paint absolutely has a chance to chalk. It is not unheard of. Now for reasoning. PH level is everything. If your PH level is below the 7.0 Neutral mark for an extended period of time, you can expect that paint to chaulk. There are two different applications for paint. With Rubber Base paint which comes right out of can. Just like painting a house. And Epoxylon which is a two part mix with a catalyst. Epoxylon is the better choice. You CANNOT paint rubber base over Epoxylon and you CANNOT paint Epoxylon over rubber base. If your pool is chalking, it's late consider draining, power washing, acid washing and than painting. But it is very important that find out what kind of paint is on your pool.
  13. Pool Clown has raised a good point. When does the DE return to the pool? If your system is on a timer and only runs for 8 hours out of the day, when the pump shuts off back pressure may cause DE to run through the pump and back to the pool. Causing it to come out of the main drain or cloud up the skimmer(s). If this is the case you may consider installing a check value to prevent this from happening. Also you may want to attempt to set your multi port in the waste position and vacuum the pool the waste to remove all DE from the pool. Timing of when the DE returns to the pool will tell the story of where it's coming from.
  14. Your just another victim to a very complicated system. There is no way to bypass like the last two fellows referred to. But disengaging that device in a commercial setting such as a hotel you, yourself are liable if something were to go wrong. Which is a HEAVY fine and jail time. so id recommend to getting a good set of ear plugs Cause that alarm is annoying!! haha
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