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  1. Best thing would be to bring a water sample to your local pool store and have them analyze the water for you.
  2. The EC65 is NOT a cartridge filter. A cartridge filter is taken out of the cannister and hosed off. The EC65 has a backwash valve at the back of the filter that has to be opened when backwashing. The EC65 is probably a 25 year old design and in my opinion still one of the best filters on the market.
  3. Try and find a post hole digger with long handles and dig as far down as you can in a couple different places. It will give you a general idea how high the table is.
  4. You can't do much to a pool after the finish is applied that will change the color except paint. I would strongly recommend against it tho, because it will void any waranty you have on the finish.
  5. Either medium or heavy duty would be fine.
  6. You have an air leak. Easiest way to find out where it is , is to let the pump pick up its prime and shut the pump off. Water will spit out where the leak is. Hopefully it will be in the pump basket o-ring which can be replaced. It couuld also be in a valve or the male adapter on the suction side of the pump.
  7. The best product for getting rid of Mustard is Yellow Treat. Follow the instructions and you wont have a problem getting rid of it. What I suggest also is using a Phosphate remover. Your problem seems to be a phosphate problem also. Algae does not grow unless it has a food source, which are phosphates. Phosphates are introduced to the pool by basically any organic matter that falls into the pool such as grass or leaves. When the phosphate levels are high then algae blooms are more common, which seems to have been the problem you had last year.
  8. Because you say that there is a very strong chlorine smell when you open the lid, it leads me to beleive that the chlorinator is either installed backwards (there is an arrow on it that points in the direction that the flow would be, arrow should be pointed towards the return side) or the dial may be stuck. Check the arrow and turn the dial to the full position.
  9. First thing to do is to determine where the air leak is. The easiest way is to have someone turn the pump on and off. When the pump goes off look around all the fittings and the pump lid. Water will always spit out of the void where air is coming in.
  10. Easiest way to determine if its the filter is pull it out and run the pump without it.
  11. Rule of thumb when it comes to running the pump is... 1 hour for every 10 degrees air temp. So if you live in a climate where the Avg. air temp is 80 degrees, then 8 hours. One thing to remember is, if you run only 4 hours a day and have an inline chlorinator then the pool is only getting chlorinated for that 4 hours which generally isn't enough thru the summer.
  12. What type of filter do you have? If you go from a full prime to losing prime within 10 minutes of trying to vacuum I suspect your filter is clogging. If you have a cartridge filter try running it without the filter in. But anyway the easiest way to find an air leak is to turn the pump on and off. When it turns off the water will spit out of the void and thats where the air leak is.
  13. The easiest way to determine running time is, whatever your avg. temperature is during the day it would be 1 hour for every 10 degree. For example if you are in a climate where the avg is 80-90, pump running time would be 8-9 hrs. And the best time to run the pump is during the day especially if you have some kind of inline chlorinator so the pool will be chlorinated in the heat of the day when chlorine reduction is at its peak.
  14. Easiesy way to find a leak is, close your skimmer valve or valves and only pull from the main drain. Let the pool drain down under normal operation WITHOUT adding water. The water will stop at the leak. If it stops just below the skimmer thats where it is, if it continues to lose water and stops just at a return line then there is a problem with a return line. If it continues to lose water then it most likely is in either the main drain, or the light conduit.
  15. Sounds to me like you have a problem in the main drain line itself. The reason I think this is, If when running the pump and only having the skimmer side of the 3 way open and there is no problem then switch to the main drain, or at least start to, and the pump loses prime. This generally means it is pulling air from somewhere on the main drain side. If there was a plug in the main drain it would not cavitate the pump because the skimmer would still be working. And if there was a problem with the 3 way then you would most likely have a problem with pulling water from the skimmer too. You might just want to have the main drain line pressurized.
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