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  1. Check to make sure the heater is turned up to 104 on the heater. If the heater does not heat up to 104 for spa, switch to pool (on the heater) and turn the thermostat to 104 (for heaters with dual thermostats). Maybe the temp sensor needs to be calibrated at the indoor controller. Hope this helps
  2. This timer may be what you are looking for Intermatic INT-P1353ME Hope this helps
  3. What is the best material? The best material is sanded tile grout (if joint is wider than 1/8 inch - If joint is less than 1/8" then use non-sanded grout. What is the best method? The best method is to mix up some material (not to wet), use a tight fitting glove and apply grout with a finger. Do this for about five feet (more or less) then go back over with a damp sponge, lightly pushing against tile, coping and grout joint. Rinse out sponge and go back over coping and tile but not over the grout joint (make sure to clean well enough not to leave a film). Then move on. Do I need to drain the pool? You will need to drain the pool down to the bottom of the tile line (but not on the plaster). Make sure you have your pool brush handy for when you drop grout to the bottom of the pool. You can brush down the pool when done. If you have a DE filter or a cartridge filter you may need to clean after a day if you drop to much grout into the pool. The most important guestion would be Why is there a gap between the coping and the tile? Once the coping is set there should not be a gap (unless there is some kind of movement). Some possible reasons why - The expansion joint caulk is missing between coping and pool deck. The pool deck is poured to the coping with out an expansion joint. The stone is mortared to the coping with out an expansion joint. Or there is unstable soil below the pool deck. Hope this helps
  4. Pool plaster is best polished with smaller pads 5", 7" or slightly larger with a flexible backing pad. There are a lot of curves, coves and detail work in a pool that a 20" floor grinder would not polish, the rest would have to be hand polished. Some times old pool plaster is very thin, then when you polish it you go all the way to the gunite. I would plaster the pool or buy the kids aqua shoes to wear in the pool. Hope this helps
  5. Are you talking about the grout between the coping and the top of the tile? Or the grout within the six inch water line.
  6. Take a look at this link and see if this is your cleaner head. If not they have a lot of information on infloor cleaning systems. www.infloorpoolparts.com/retroclean-turboclean-cleaning-head.html (may have to highlight and paste?) Hope this helps
  7. There should not be anything touching the pool coping or pool bond beam. This includes concrete pool decks, concrete sub decks, stone decks or paver decks. The coping heaving also could be caused by an accumulation of water behind the pool coping. This could be caused by improper drainage away from the pool. The improper drainage could cause water to soak the mortar under the coping stones then when there is freeze the ice crystals heave the coping stones. Have the pool builder redo the coping and redo the pavers near the coping Hope this helps.
  8. If you have a hydrostatic valve in the main drain sump then you could be loosing water thru that. Just a wild guess but maybe the rubber o-ring is bad and when it gets cold it leaks water. Hope this helps
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