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Salt water pools are compatible with d.e. filters, so you should be fine. As to the sand filter question, typically the smaller sand filters sold with pumps are for above ground pools, and the stand alone sand filter of 20″ Read More …

I ran your question by the pool guy – sounds like you need a smaller pump to go to the smaller filter, or go with a larger size to make sure the pump isn’t too powerful for the size filter Read More …

Hi – You’ll want to find a surface mount coping similar to this Cinderella CPVM3C2040 VM-3 Vertical Mount Coping with Liner Track one that Cinderella has. It will be screwed into your existing steel wall and it’s a new spot Read More …

I have a few questions for you – first, what type of filter do you have? And do you have iron in your water? What it sounds like is that you have iron in your water, likely well water or Read More …

The liner mule was designed for just that situation: https://askthepoolguy.com/product/liner-mule/ It still takes some strength and you should be careful using it…

  You may have chlorine lock caused by stabilizer/conditioner. What is your CYA level? Higher than about 30-50 is too high, and you’d need to drain and refill some water to lessen the CYA – it’s the “inner tubes” for Read More …

In residential applications we don’t see expansion joints in the bottom of a concrete pool. We do see them between the coping and patio of concrete/gunite pools and use Sikaflex. If you have two surfaces that will hold it in Read More …

We would, and we have added a sun deck/sun ledge to existing pools – we have done it with both gunite and with a vinyl liner pool. It’s an involved process that means taking out some structure, digging down, pouring Read More …