I was contacted by a customer in Chandler Arizona who was having a problem with a booster pump that wouldn't stay primed. The ball valve on the return side pipe had a bad leak. I found several small leaks in the plumbing for the pool filter […]
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A couple weeks ago while at a service account in Tempe Arizona, I noticed the equipment pad was wet. The variable speed pump was leaking water onto the pad while running. In addition, the pump had no water in it after sitting for hours, which was […]
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A weekly service customer of mine who lives in Chandler Arizona required a pool repair last week, because the pump had a bad leak. The pump body (the volute) cracked and while it was running, sprayed water and flooded the equipment area. It's a variable speed pump […]
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I was contacted by customers in Gilbert for a variable speed pump replacement, because their pump motor was making a lot of noise and disturbing not only the home owners, but the neighbors as well. I believe the bearings were bad. The pump I replaced had […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Chandler who I do maintenance and repairs for that requested a routine filter clean and salt cell cleaning. When I opened the filter this time, I noticed a lot of white flaky scales inside the filter. After testing the […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Tempe Arizona because her pool was green. A local pool store had replaced her equipment a couple years ago and she had problems keeping the pool from turning green ever since. It had finally gotten away from her and […]
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I recently installed a new salt system at a customers house in Gilbert Arizona. The customer reached out to me again a few weeks later regarding a small pool repair. There were plumbing leaks due to poor glue connections between a couple of fittings on the […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona who wanted a salt system replacement. There was an old Hayward salt system in the past, but the display board had stopped working and the old cell had been removed. The customer wanted to go back to […]
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One of my long time customers has a rental property in Gilbert AZ, which had some pool repair issues that needed to be addressed before this years swim season. One problem was a broken drain cover. The pool is very old and had an outdated Aqua-star […]
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I just got hired by a customer recently who purchased a new home In Gilbert Arizona. I've been doing various repairs since I started working for them, but this week was a variable speed pump installation. The customer asked if I could replace the pump, because […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona to do a warranty repair on an A&A Manufacturing (Pentair) 6 port water valve. Some of the tabs inside the water valves lower base broke, causing water pressure to escape into zones (pipes) that should have been […]
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One of my long time service accounts in Tempe Arizona needed a pool repair this month. I installed the DE filter about 10 years ago and have maintained it regularly. Required maintenance for a DE filter is backwashing every 3 months (or more if necessary). Equally […]
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A customer I worked for in the past, in Gilbert Arizona, reached out because his old variable speed pump had finally failed. The old Hayward Eco-Star variable speed pump was the first variable speed pump Hayward made when the energy efficiency law, title 44, went into […]
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Pool equipment installation - I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert who wanted to replace their pool equipment. Pool equipment like a pump, equipment pad, diverter valves, PVC pipe and the filter, generally last 15 years. Their equipment pad was cracked and they had an […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona about a green pool. This family is surrounded by acreage with livestock and farm land. The swimming pool turned green because of high phosphates, a result of what surrounds the pool. Plant debris, fertilizer for the crops […]
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My long time customer in Gilbert Arizona needed a new cartridge filter. Pool equipment as a general rule lasts about 15 years. Her old cartridge filter's plastic tank was so dry rot from the Arizona sun, you could scratch it deeply with only your fingernail. When […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona, for a filter clean and inspection and to clean a salt cell. I cleaned the salt cell, but unfortunately upon inspection I noticed the cell had completely collapsed, crushed by water pressure. There was so much scale […]
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My long time customer in Gilbert Arizona notified me that his variable speed pool pump was making a funny noise and not circulating any water. The water valve for the pop up heads (the in ground cleaning system) had failed. I fixed the problem by cutting […]
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Pool equipment in the Arizona sun does not last much longer than 15-20 years. My customers in Tempe needed a new filter and equipment pad. The concrete equipment pad was cracked and the sand filter was too old to service with a sand change. I replaced […]
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