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Have you looked for blockages inside of your cartridge filter? When is the last time you acid cleaned your cartridge, or replaced it? We’d need to know a bit more about that to give you more advice, but those would Read More …

I’d bring in a water sample and have exact levels of all water parameters tested and put on the langelier saturation index to identify if the water is basic or acidic. There is a relationship between the water temperature and Read More …

If the pool is eight years old, does that mean the salt cell is as well? At eight years, it’s well outlived its salt cell lifetime and time to replace. If it is one or two years old, the flow Read More …

The white fiberglass steps commonly installed in vinyl liner pools don’t last forever and sometimes need to be replaced. Sometimes if you can find someone who does fiberglass, patching is possible. If the crack is above water level perhaps a Read More …

When you took the multiport valve apart did you disrupt the spring in the handle? Did it have to come out to get the lid off, and is it back in place properly? Double check those and you may find Read More …

You are both right in a sense, but ideally the pool would sweep clean from shallow to deep end, depositing the sediment into the main drain. To remedy the situation it would seem the infloor control unit would have to Read More …

If a pool has not been painted, especially a pebble finish, our best advice is do not paint it. Depending on what is going on or what you are looking for there may be better options to acid wash the Read More …

Yes, bullnose coping can be removed and a stone coping put on. Depending on the thickness of the new stone, the patio profile may be different so the prep for the new coping will be important to get it level Read More …