r/pools

I have a pool with no cover and I really want one because its much safer, cleaner, and the evaporation is crazy!

The bid forgot 20k for the cover so add that to the total.

It includes removing the spa that is directly adjacent. IMO 25k for demo is really high.

The bid also includes building the new wall so that the pool is rectangular and building a spa inside the pool along with three wide steps to get to the shallow end.

Is 10k to put in new lights high? Do I really need to spend $7,700 for “automation”?

And finally, this includes one heater, which means when the spa is being heated, the pool is not. Should I get a second heater? If so, are there any small ones? Because the equipment area is pretty small, so I dont know if I can get two full sized heaters in that space.

Am I missing anything?

I’ve never seen this cheap. I’m in the DFW area.

Well yup. I took my eyes off my pool for three hours and this happend. I got the sage advice from the pool guy about how you shouldn't use well water due to the metals.

I moved back home from college and my parent’s pool is disgusting. I’d like to fix it myself without them having to spend a ton of money. I believe it’s an issue with the pump. It not almost definitely something with the plumbing.

Here’s the “tests” I’ve run/ important information:
-the pool water drains to just below the skimmer overnight. Both with and without the pump running
-the water does not drain at all when the skimmer drain/ suction hole (below the skimmer basket) is plugged
-water starts to seep out of the base of the cartridge filter housing when the pump is running. Some also leaks out of the top (see attached photo- I’ve circled where water leaks)

If anyone knows what could be causing this or other tests I can do to help diagnose the issue I would appreciate any help. Thank you!

Title: Latham Cayman 16 vs. Thursday Pools Aspen?
Trying to decide between the new Latham Cayman 16 and the Thursday Pools Aspen. We have two kids, ages 2 and 7, so this will primarily be a family pool for playing, hanging out, and having friends over.

The biggest differences for me are the tanning ledge and depth profile. I like the shallower depth profile of the Aspen, while the Cayman is roughly a foot deeper at the deep end.

For a family with young kids, would you generally choose the shallower pool with more usable standing depth, or go with the deeper pool for more versatility as the kids get older?

Not sure if it’s the 100+heat, maybe an under lubes O-ring last time I opened or what, but I can’t get the cap unscrewed here. You can see I already chipped off a bit trying a runner mallet. Any advice that doesn’t require cutting?

My year old liner keeps popping out of the track in just a couple of spots. I can pop it back in easily by hand. I ended up buying something like 200 feet of liner lock strip from Amazon, but it doesn’t stay in, and looks like crap if it did. In the picture, you can see like a 1 foot length that I pressed in as a test. I wish the liner lock was black in color and more subtle. Any ideas short of pennies?

Just thought I’d share since I’ve learned a ton from all of you. I just got done pressure washing our community pool. It’s a biiiig pool, and draining it was nerve-wracking.

But I feel pretty good about the condition it’s in now. Caulking and regrouping is done and we’ll be refilling in about a week once the caulk is dry.

We treat them like animal enrichment for the kids, randomly setting them out periodically throughout the rest of the year for the animals. I mean kids.

Came back from vacation to pump leaking. I took it apart and didn’t see a visible crack but has to be right? Think I’ll have to replace the whole pump? Thanks for the help!

Located in Alabama.

In the middle of a pool build We have a perfectly flat back yard, could walk out of the detached garage without a step. You can see in the renderings that the pool layout was straight forward. Pic 2 you can see the drop off now to the pool. Builder is saying it will be additional expense as explained below. Did they set it up wrong? I’m confused how we’ve come to this point. There was no talk of these complications in the planning stage

”doing my walk through yesterday. Looks like we will need to talk about a possible wall or curb stone for the back fence line area and shed flower bed side. This is due to the pool being exactly level and the yard grading flowing down hill. Once you get home. Roughly imagine the 1” of auto cover tracking and 2” of pool coping on top of the concrete wall. Then a slight pitch away from the pool. So roughly 3” above  the concrete will be final grade with the pavers”

I have a Pentair iChlor salt generator that is completely dead—no display or LEDs at all. Pump and water flow are fine (tested up to 3,000 RPM), so it doesn’t seem to be a flow issue.

Pool service thinks it may be the Power Center fuse but says replacing the fuse may not be worth it because it could blow again.

Has anyone had this issue? Would you test/replace the fuse and Power Center first before replacing the whole salt cell/system?

Building to the side of the pool is detached garage. Pool builder is telling us it will be additional expense, seems they dug down to deep vs the renderings? Reasonable for me to pay for? Or screw up?

“doing my walk through yesterday. Looks like we will need to talk about a possible wall or curb stone for the back fence line area and shed flower bed side. This is due to the pool being exactly level and the yard grading flowing down hill

Once you get home. Roughly imagine the 1” of auto cover tracking and 2” of pool coping on top of the concrete wall. Then a slight pitch away from the pool. So roughly 3” above  the concrete will be final grade with the pavers”

I have a waterfall basin that sits below my pool that is connected to an autofill to refill my pool via a waterfall pump. Sometimes when the waterfall basin is low (lots of splash out etc so water is being put back into the pool) I notice in those cases that my pool water gets lowered if the waterfall pump is turned off and I was wondering if it’s back flowing to the waterfall basin since the basin sits lower. The check valve in the pics is last check valve back to the pool from the water basin pump (the circled part). Does this check valve look like it needs to be replaced? Also do I need to replace the other check valves around the waterfall pump? Given this is the last check valve from the waterfall pump before it goes in the pool I imagine if that’s working and preventing backflow then there shouldn’t be any backflow back to the basin or are the others responsible for that also ? Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone, we had bad weather in KY this past week and now my pool liner has pockets of water behind it. The pool company we talked go said it would resolve its self and it was safe to swim in but I still don’t wanna risk making it any worse. Has anyone had this happen?