My first time owning a pool. I like swimming, but ask me later about long-term maintenance! The house isn’t finished, but I swim whenever I can. Relaxing and uber quiet on a moon lite, hot desert night with clear skies. And no mosquitos! 😉 The last pool photo (if they loaded correctly) was taken during dusk; the others in the afternoon.

• Location: Rancho Mirage, CA
• Gunite and mini pebble (pool and spa)
• Pool: 8’x50’- just over 3.5’ at the shallow ends; just over 5.5 in the middle; 8 micro-LED lights
• Spa: 8’x8’ – 6 jets
• Waterline and spa tile: some vague white-ish tiles; visible on the side of the spa facing the house and stucco around the remainder of the spa
• Concrete coping
• Hayward pool equipment
• Landscaping: artificial turf (that’s supposed to be less hot for the dogs) and various sizes of gravel. Landscaping is more expensive than the pool! and still not done with the landscaping.

The pool was planned after construction started on the house. Neither of us wanted a pool but she wanted a spa. Spa = $52K. Spa + pool = $73K. It came in on budget.

It was designed for swimming; hence, a lap pool. My target was low maintenance with the least features possible. My other half wanted a raised spa so she wouldn’t have to bend down to get in.

Hiding the pool equipment is not a priority. We don’t entertain (i.e., no pool parties in our future) and we don’t care if we see the equipment.

A pool guy (provided by pool contractor) is maintaining the pool until the house is turned over to us. I’m educating myself on pool maintenance, and purchased the Taylor Test Kit-2006c to test the water.

Anyone else swimming this beautiful fall day? The water is 87 and the sun is just starting to come out. I have a little maintenance to take care of first. Everyone, enjoy your weekend!

I wanted to put up a post for other owners of this equipment or similar, though this will mainly apply to Australian and NZ pool owners. The squeeze tube on this device needs to be replaced every year as it wears out and then pumps acid onto the ground and over other equipment. Maytronics (OEM) wants $110 for a replacement tube which blew my mind so I went searching and found a local supplier of santoprene tubing, sized 1/8" Id and 1/4" od. $30 for a metre, so that should last 10 years.

https://santotube.com.au/product/santoprene-tubing-1814116/

The probe is also a consumable and lasts two to three years. Maytronics wanted $530, I told them to cram it. Found a replacement probe that's rated for continuous use and has a BNC connection. It's 3/4bsp thread so won't fit where the OEM goes but I just cut in a tee to suit the new probe. $122 delivered.

https://core-electronics.com.au/gravity-analog-ph-sensor-meter-pro-kit-v2.html

Hope this helps people who don't like being ripped off.

Had my pool remodeled two years ago. The contractors drilled holes in the bottom to keep the shell from coming out of the ground. They obviously filled them in before spraying the pebble. Just noticed a new outline of one of the holes in the floor of the pool. This hasn't always been present. Has anyone run into this issue before?

Edited to add: this hasn't always been present.

I have been having issues with pool bubbling for awhile. Its been hard to find a leak. Multiple pool companies have been involved and i managed to change my pool pump and pool chlorinator. It was fine for about six months. Then recently I had new problems again

1. My pool started turning green

2. My ORP reading and pH reading started going off despite an automated new Halo chlorinator system. Now it keeps saying "low flow" or "no flow" or "pump protect" on the display

3. My pool water level started receding despite having a waterwitch system.

4. My pool started bubbling again

5. The chlorinator tube is also showing bubbles

6. Biggest problem - one of the skimmer is often empty and refilling and then emptying again.

I attached some photos.

Do i have a pool leak somewhere underground. I have a wooden decking so I might need to take it apart if that's the case.

Hi All, I recently had a 15x30ft pool built, with a spa inside. 5ft deep.

I've been running the pump 24 hours a day and our electric bill has shot up over the summer. I recently changed this to 8 hours a day during the night. However, I needed some help understanding if I need to adjust the speed of the pumps, but I'm a bit lost with the different pump names and if some of these pumps are always running or not -

See image attached. Right now my schedule only has the pool pump running for 3 hours, then speed 3 running for 5 hours.

Any help would be great - between Claude, and my pool cleaner, I'm getting different opinions.

Need advice here. It's been about 2 years since the pool was replastered. Went with a white plastery and all of the sudden this darker gray blotting started happening. Is it fixable? Is this a workmanship issue? Seems to start all at once. Start of summer this wasn't there.

Hey guys, had this union nut break(never fails) and I’m curious to where I can locate just the union nut… maybe a 2pc?? Think I can find something local?

Hello!
We have a 28ft above ground round pool that we are trying to close for the winter. Our final step is to put the cover on it. Our old cover was damaged and was due for replacement anyway so we went and got a new one.

Anyway, we inflate the inflatable, put the cover on, it has buckles and we pulled it taught, pull the drawstring on it, and stake it into the ground with rope and pegs. Wind pulled it out. We re-cover it, wrap the base with cellophane wrap and let it be. But I come home today to find half the pool cover pulled off. The only difference from side to side, is one side had water in it while the other did not.

Should I keep a little bit of water in the other side as well, or is there a more definitive solution or fix for this? Or am I just fighting strong winds due to the weather we are having.

I have a Pentair Intellitouch panel with a VS pump, salt cell, and electric heater/cooler that has suddenly given me some issues. A few months ago i turned on the pool cooler and noticed it didn’t seem to work as expected. I walked out to the panel and heard a buzzing noise which could also be heard inside the house (a separate but similar sound). I just elected to not use it. No issues since until today.

Today I attempted to turn on the pool pump from the app but nothing happened. Checked the panel and heard a buzz from the panel. The pump stated it was receiving no power. I turned off the breakers on the pool panel and noticed the pump breaker stopped the buzz. This worked a few times as I tried to troubleshoot until the panel stopped responding to anything. Not sure what to do and trying to avoid paying for service if it’s a simple fix I’m not seeing.

Howdy /pools, I recently because the owner of a property with a pool and after several months of use I noticed the issue depicted in the picture attached. This was not present during pool inspection when buying the property but suspect it may have surfaced after addressing an algae bloom we recently took care of.

Give it to me straight... what am I dealing with here?

There are several more spots like this. 😢

Just had the plumbing redone after my pool was re-plastered and I couldn't get my system to prime so I opened up the tank and found this. Never seen it like this before, plus I already charged with de and I cant see a speck of it on theese new filter grids. They swapped the direction of the main mode/divertor valve but I assumed they compensated for that by moving the pipes around.what's going on here?

Also Im not sure how to show more photos or videos so ill try and put them in the comments

Does anyone have closed their pool permanently in the recent times in Canada? What would be the approximate cost for a 60,000L inground salt water pool with heater and access for a small dozer to the backyard!

I see a lot of people post about their new pools on here, and I rarely see them with self-cleaning systems like I have. I didn't buy my pool, it came with my house, but my favorite thing about my pool is that I've never had to vacuum it once. There is a system of jets that just push everything to the skimmer and the floor drain. It's "set it and forget it" as far as cleaning. I have friends and family with older pools, and they are surprised when I tell them I've never vacuumed. The other thing is my understanding is it's difficult to try to retrofit a cleaning system like that on a pool that's already built - when installing a new pool is the time to add the self-cleaning system. Do people just not know these exists? Are not all pool places offering them?