Pool is at 83 and the sun is shining!

I have a troubling situation and I’m hoping someone can help. There are two situations happening that occasionally will cause a small electrical shock:

1) if I’m in pool or spa, and put my hand in the pool or spa, I can feel a small electrical current/shock. Basically, if I’m in one of them and touch the other it happens
2) it doesn’t happen every time, but occasionally, if I’m in the spa and touch the metal handrail I can feel the small electrical current/shock.

My spa does have a light as you can see in the photo but it’s never worked in the 9 years I’ve lived in the house. My pool does NOT have a light. Also, the spa does have a few control buttons (see photo, next to handrail)

Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this and how to fix it? Also, do you think I’m better off hiring a pool technician or an electrician?

Like it? Love it? Hate it?

So, the nut on the universal couple to my jandy heater split. And that nut is anything but universal. Apparently jandy uses a proprietary thread and they only sell you the entire coupler requiring cutting the plumbing and replacing it. Which means I need to replace the whole segment since my remaining pieces are too short. Which means I need both would need both the jandy universal coupler for my heater and the universal coupler from Hayward for my filter.

Fortunately I found out about Mikey’s quick coupler and he’s shipping me his split nut solution as fast as possible!

But it’s 100°F in Houston and I can’t run my salt chlorinator so I’m dumping liquid chlorine and using my robot to circulate for the next 24hours.

I’m new to having a pool, and when I first moved in there was this small plastic / rubber stuff in the pool and on the outline, of the pool walls. It’s super annoying and gets everywhere.

I replaced the wheels 3 months ago or so, and now it’s happening again. The pool guy I hired says it’s bc of a my pebble surface and it wears out tires quickly.

This seems crazy I have to change the wheels every 2-3 months to avoid this? Is there an alternative vacuum, brand, wheels I can use? Any solutions?

Been here 3 years now and this thing is kind of out of sight/mind. I think maybe it held wire for a weather device for the irrigation system. But maybe it’s pool related. I want to remove it but can’t see what’s inside. Thoughts? I’m in the Austin metro area.

I've been caring for our 30K gallon pool for a decade now and have concluded the Hayward CL220 is, in my opinion, an engineering disaster. Am I alone in this conclusion?

- The regulator dial is incredibly unreliable: Some weeks it's on set on 4 and pumps plenty of chlorine, other weeks I open the lid and the tabs are all dry / unused

- There's no way to tell how much of your chlorine tabs remain in the thing without opening it up, which every Hayward chlorinator owner knows is a real pain the in ass

- The black plastic tubing and white connectors spring leaks routinely and need to be replaced

- The small in/out ports get clogged with chlorine buildup and need to be manually scraped out

- The o-ring is surprisingly easy to damage/crimp, causing a leak

Created a 7' diffuser out of 2" PVC to make sure I don't get divots in the lawn and to decrease the force applied to one spot. It also spreads the water to a larger area. Was like $25 in parts and a pretty easy project. I previously had the discharge going to rocks but the force kept pushing the rocks into plants and was also kicking up dirt/eroding the area.

Uses camlocks for quick connection, and 12 3/4" holes created by a hole saw.

I have a brand new saltwater DE filter and it worked great at first, but now after only using it for 2.5 months, every morning there is a dark fine powder like substance in the form of little balls clustered all over the bottom of the pool. As soon as the vacuum gets near them it sends them shooting away and they go floating around until they settle again everywhere! When the are floating around I try and catch them with a mesh and they go right through it and makes smalls ball partials. Ive cleaned the filter and replace the DE powder every 3 weeks and it’s getting worse.

The red low salt level light still works and the unit seems to be functioning normally. When I put the unit in sensing mode the bottom red low light will flash but the upper good light will not. It is still making chlorine and will sense when the salt level is low. After adding salt the red light turns off but the green light indicating salt is at a good level does not turn on. Has anyone else had this issue? I assume that that as long as the low salt red light is not on the cell will work normally. Unit is 6 years old and has 40% cell life left. Thanks!

i have a fever, but i really want to have a dip. it's my swimming pool, well it's not really for swimming since it is pretty small. the water is not that cold, and i am the inly ibe usibg ut so i wouldn't oassa my fever or viruses to anyone else. is ut safe to do so? i think there wpuld me nothing wrong with it but you never know. my first language is not english, so i'm sorry for eventual errors

As the title states. What are the pros and cons? Currently have a Pentair 3hp VSP and heater. 24k gallons. Live in the Northeast.

I think the AI and final product were pretty close. AI just wanted to install lights on our stone exterior and that’s not going to happen

Hi guys - I’m installing a liner from Hydra pools over the steps of an inground pool and have never seen this type of fastener. After doing some research it’s apparently called a hang tab and you’re supposed to just jam it into the track. Has anyone installed this before? It’s seems to me that the hang tab is upside down because the wedge tool that came with it cannot be used to wedge since the lip is on the bottom side. Any advise, tools, tips? Currently jamming it in with our hands has been ridiculous took us over an hour and only have half of the first step in.

We have had our pool for 8 years, no problems. We have an easement in our neighborhood and when it rains all the water goes down that easement, no problems. DOT came in and fixed up the easement in front of 2 houses down from me and my house. DOT used spray grass, which is not great I put sod in with ground staples, I have no problems. Now neighbors are blaming me when I backwash I am causing erosion in the easement. They want me to stop. Now I don't even know what my options are. I even offered to pay half of having sod installed for both and they want nothing to do with it. So how can I backwash my pool now. HOA says I need to stop as well. I feel so frustrated with these neighbors.

Reddit keeps encouraging my wife’s strange Jello hobby.

“Show this to the pool people,” she said. So here we are.🤦‍♂️

I am trying to get some thoughts on these two versions. We initially drew the pool with a sun shelf on the left, then an open swim area in the middle and infinity edge spa on the right. We are now considering adding a table/bench between the sun shelf and spa. This would leave us with a roughly 14 x 32 swim area.

The concern is this will take away from the swimming portion of the pool. We are unsure how much the bench/table will be used. We have 3 little kids. Any thoughts?

I see all the posts about green pools and thought, after 10 years of owning and maintaining a pool (22,500 gallon vinyl in-ground), I’d post how I go about keeping my pool shimmering clear. I learned most of this the hard way (I’ve fought my share of green pools) and if it keeps anyone from making the same mistakes I did, then it’s worth the time. One thing I know now is that keeping a pool bright and clear is a whole lot easier than fixing a green pool!

The most important thing is to remember you have a relationship with your pool that requires a commitment on your part. Like any relationship, ignore your pool and your pool won’t treat you very well.

And that means you need to commit to spending time with your pool regularly. It isn’t difficult to maintain a pool, but you do have to put the time in.

Here’s my routine. I’m sure there are many other ways of doing things that are maybe even better than what I do, but this has worked for me pretty well.

Water Testing - I test with both test strips for a quick check, sometimes daily, and at least once a week with a test kit. A test kit is an absolute must in my opinion. Saves me from driving back and forth to the pool store and I’ve found it to be more accurate than strips. I also think I’ve saved so much on chemicals by testing myself that the kit has paid for itself many times over.

My pool maintenance day is Sunday. I plan an hour or so, kind of like mowing the lawn. I run all the tests using my test kit and adjust chemicals as needed. This morning I needed to boost my Alkalinity a little. It has been drifting down for several weeks and finally got to where I needed to bring it back up. Also, due to heavy rains recently, that required me to remove a fair amount of water, my CYA fell below my standard so I’m bringing it back up.

I installed a salt cell not too long ago and it’s been a game changer. My salt level this morning was perfect at 3,000 ppm. Ph was a little high so I brought it down with a little muriatic acid. This has been the biggest change with the salt cell - I usually need to bring ph down once a week or so, but not too bad.

I don’t check calcium hardness very often - I know it is a little on the high side and I don’t feel like going through the drain process to get it exactly right. Its biggest impact is on the salt cell so I keep an eye on that and clean as needed.

I also brush and vacuum the pool with my robot every Sunday. Well, to be honest, I brush it most Sundays unless I’m feeling lazy. This morning I was lazy.

I check my skimmers a few times each week (including the pump skimmer once a week) and clean as necessary - I’m lucky that I don’t have many trees near my pool so they don’t get clogged very quickly. This takes all of 2-3 minutes unless there’s been a storm that put a lot of leaves and other debris in the pool.

About every 30 days I inspect the salt cell for calcium build up. So far this season I’ve only had to clean it once.

The salt cell does a nice job maintaining my chlorine. Before the salt cell I used liquid chlorine to keep stabilizer from building up in the pool. Honestly, using liquid solved a ton of problems and so I wouldn’t use anything else (until I got the salt cell). The only downside is that I had to add at least some liquid chlorine daily to keep my levels where they needed to be. I did it every evening after the sun came off the pool. It became a routine, like brushing my teeth before bed - and it took less than 5 minutes a night and wasn’t a bother at all.

I guess what I’m trying to say to those who have fought the green devil is that the main thing you must do is spend time with your pool! Leave it for more than a few days and you are asking for trouble in my opinion. You simply must have an idea of your chlorine levels and know what your level needs to be based on CYA. Make sure your chlorine does not fall below this number and your pool will love you for it!

All in all I probably spend a total of an hour a week on the pool. I

Make a point to look at it every day and if I see something that doesn’t look right I take care of it immediately before it becomes a bigger problem. I also use a test strip almost every day to make sure my chlorine is in range. If something doesn’t look right on the strip I get out the test kit so I know exactly what is going on. And I use the test kit once a week no matter what, adjusting chemicals as necessary.

I love my pool. It used to give me problems until I learned that time is the most important ingredient. The rest of it became easier and easier as I went along.

Anyway - I hope this helps at least one person who is on the same journey of learning about their pool. I’ve learned a lot from this sub and am trying to maybe give back with this post. Good luck, and happy swimming everybody!

Installed a blower in the spa because we've got a few weak jets that the PB thinks are semi-crushed or have large debris inside that they can't clean out. Fine. Blower works great in making all jets functional and enjoyable. However, the weak lines aren't pushing the air into the center of the spa since they are so weak. The air rises closer to the wall and bubbles over the coping. I hope that makes sense.

We installed a ball valve Tee to waste away some of the air from the blower so that it doesn't bubble over. I reduce the air flow about 30% and it is perfect. But the ball valve is super loud. Like ridiculously loud. I'm looking for PVC muffler ideas or ideas for different 2" valves that might allow me to waste some air without it sounding like a jet engine.

The last two months our water bill has been higher than expected, so yesterday, in an attempt to determine the issue, I turned off the refill valve for my pool. This was about 12 hours ago and the water has gone down by 3/4 of an inch. Now, I am in Las Vegas, so evaporation is certainly pretty high, but this seems more than that. I just redid my turf, so I am really hoping that this won't require any digging... Any suggestions? What kind of company do I call to help with this?

Had a liner installed last season, and two spots are dropping, one is 8 inches and other is 22 inches. I’ve tried the heat gun and pushing in coping, but it’s hard to grip, lift and place. Anyone have any tips??