History: New SWG, high CYA and Calcium, nothing to do but drain half the pool. Drain began, but when it got below the skimmers, it stopped. Leslie's guy told us to close valves to skimmers and continue drain. For awhile it filled and drained the spa, but then that stopped as well. When I checked and no water was draining, I went to clear the filter basket in the pump and it was steaming. The water was hot, but not boiling. I turned it off and called a service company this morning.

We hooked up a submersible pump and got the water level down to 50%, now refilling. The part that is killing me is that the service guy went to my set up (recently replumbed by the previous owner) and said it was a melluva hess, with much dramatics, tsk tsked about my one horsepower motor and old DE filter, and pulled on the pipe to the pump (say that 3 times real fast). It moved very slightly, and he "woe is me"-ed about how I had most likely melted the seals and he hated to have to replumb it all, but that's what he would most likely have to do, and in this heat and humidity.

Does this sound right to y'all? All I can hear is money leaving my bank account.

I will say this guy recommends a high (70 to 80) CYA for SWG and added chelation just like Waterbear suggested to me, so he's got that going for him, but I feel some cynicism about the rest of it.

K