Thank you! Unfortunately I did not stragetically place the pool equipment in a good place. To hide it, I could have put it against a back bedroom wall, but I didnt want the guests to have to listen to it. Now it is visible from the living room. I am going to try to match the block wall of the house and build a wall around it. Unfortunately, It is blocking some of the view of the green trees in the wash behind it. :(

I did an extensive search on this subject recently because we placed our equipment also in view of the pool. There was a landscape engineer on a recent HGTV Ground Breakers episode that built a type of seating arbor over the equipment and it looked real good. I have decided to do a 3-sided cedar fence around it, leaving the back side open for ventilation. The front will be able to open with gates for access. Since our pool just got finished last week, there is still a lot of landscaping to do around the equipment area. I think we'll do the fence first and then landscape around.

Im not super impressed with My Jandy system,nor the raft of new pentair components I upgraded with this past spring either. The Jandy RS-8 has been reliable and its remote is very nice and one ups all your buddies for sure. Its easy program to do basic things, but when it comes to sophisticated variable flow pumps, and temperature based switching it falls short. I have solar as well, and the for the most part the valving is accurate and well timed, but its lacks flexibility or flatly put its just not really advanced at all. It CANNOT BELIEVE it cant do temperature based switching! For example I cant seem to find a way to get the system to regulate the solar output to the spa until it hits 104 then switch to the pool till 85 and bounce back and forth and maintain 2 temps. Sure I can control this manually or set up to 2 clock timers on each point of control, and the solar can deliver it, but the point is I was told this was an "automation system." - maybe in 1993 it would be but for what you should get- its just not. The documentation isnt really descriptive about certain behavior - Does turning off solar priority with a heater on allow solar preheating of the water going into the heater?? I cant seem to tell. As with solar priority off I see the solar marked as "on" in addition to the heater being "on"- is this normal. I cant get anybody to actually come out and try an Intelliflow with it (so I can regulate GPM to the panels) and I live in southern California! The things well built though and the panel is sturdy and Im sure with a little software coding could be awesome, but "2.0" (I hear rev O will drive an intelliflow but nobody seems to know) doesnt seem to be coming out anytime soon. My pentair quad de60 filter is leaking after the first lid pop. My pentair minimax 400 has needed 2 service calls in 6 months with weeks of non use between them. My whisperflows have been awesome, as is my goldline chlorinator. Good luck Bro, Dave

Along with a photo, an indication of where you are is necessary if you are to get useful suggestions since what grows in FL is quite different from NV or here in NH. Here's how to add it to your profile so that it posts automatically by your name when you post so that we don't have to ask. Go to Your Houzz in upper right of every page, click Edit Profile, and on the left side click advanced settings. Well down the advanced settings page is a blank labeled Climate Zone for Garden Forums along with a link to find your zone. If you add info on your state or the nearest large city you will get even better information since zone only relates to average coldest winter temperatures. Then return to the top of the page and click Done Editing.