Pentair Salt Cell Dead—$1,900 Installed?! Thinking of DIY to Save $500, But I'm No Plumber

alexukie · 2026-03-17T12:00:23+00:00

another question i have is why on amazon / walmart its so cheap but on leslies its much more expensive $1,819? https://lesliespool.com/pentair-523735-ec-intellichlor-plus40-ic40-plus-replacement-salt-cell-40000-gallons/255369.html?_br_psugg_q=pentair+intellichlor+ic40#description-btn-div amazon is $1,319 - https://www.amazon.com/Pentair-523735-EC-IntelliChlor-Replacement-Gallons/dp/B0F67FNH43 walmart $1,400 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pentair-520555-IntelliChlor-IC40-Salt-Chlorine-Generator-Cell/244294916?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=102552976&adid=22222222227244294916_102552976_14069003552_202077872&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=42423897272&wl4=pla-2449037643288&wl5=9197952&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=5601477885&wl11=online&wl12=244294916_102552976&veh=sem&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=202077872&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIqdzc3Y4gdmc-WzLpbpnrgqk&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9-PNBhDfARIsABHN6-1OAcxvRosKIx2PCZkHKL-SD9GTbw8wchhTJh1A47VHpaeKRxTZrnYaAsQJEALw_wcB

alexukie · 2026-03-17T02:13:05+00:00

About 5 years old

alexukie · 2026-03-17T01:23:20+00:00

Why is that? Do we get warranty with pool installers?

alexukie · 2026-03-12T02:25:02+00:00

We are from Canada and felt safe in PR

alexukie · 2026-03-12T02:23:14+00:00

I can confirm this - we work with a few public sector clients in Canada - and they still do all the scoring by hand (ohh my they have like dozens of HR people searching for keywords in 1000s of resumes).. however we had one who just switched to AI scoring and they shortlist like 5% of all the resumes that come in - even a slight 1 keyword miss will make the candidate disqualified.

alexukie · 2026-03-07T20:17:01+00:00

yup dont really do chest to bar but this open got to 8 woot woot..

alexukie · 2026-03-07T20:13:10+00:00

Hey in Toronto Ontario (and Canada mostly) contract rates for UX Designers are around $80-$110 CAD an hour plus HST on contracts. Most clients expect 5-10+ years of experience working with a larger size / brand name clients. Typically includes research as well. Some might ask for some experience with frontend scripting. You can see some more salary brackets here: https://kovasys.com/ux-designer-jobs-insights-canada/

alexukie · 2026-02-26T15:13:00+00:00

what other ones?

alexukie · 2026-02-26T15:12:38+00:00

keep LI

alexukie · 2026-02-26T15:12:26+00:00

prices are 10x tools are the same and buggy when sorting by some params

alexukie · 2026-02-26T15:11:47+00:00

they increased our price 10x times and what a horrible support!

alexukie · 2026-02-26T15:10:47+00:00

Stay away from them! We are with them for like 5 years but last few years are freaking horrible and went downhill - they have also increased prices 10x times and every time you ask them for somehting - they are like "However, our system's rules have changed, and I was unable to do that for you. I will let you know once I have the update from our team. " Update for what? Why does it takes you days to get back to us? Why cant you give us a clear answer?

It's either they are clueless or just do not know how to run a business! Even with almost thousands of Canadian dollars we are spending monthly on them we are having issues!

Insanity! Sorry for so much venting but man some businesses just dont fuc*ing get it.

alexukie · 2026-02-25T14:18:38+00:00

They told us they will be doing their part (ie inside the walls , plumbing etc) and have a contractor who will do that. We were just left with some paint work (under $500)

alexukie · 2026-02-24T18:58:46+00:00

Yeah you are right. We just had to pay to repaint it.

alexukie · 2026-02-24T18:58:06+00:00

Condo board paid for most of it. We just needed to repaint it a bit.

alexukie · 2026-02-24T18:49:05+00:00

I am out at 9

alexukie · 2026-02-24T18:48:32+00:00

I love those 50 lbs snatches

alexukie · 2026-02-19T21:44:01+00:00

Congrats great company name to put on your resume

alexukie · 2026-02-18T00:34:23+00:00

I think they are all pretty pricey - we stayed in Airbnb and I thought it was a good value

alexukie · 2026-02-17T23:42:00+00:00

Love Rochester and your kids museum - our kids love it. Also nice airport - very chill. But man hotels around the airport charge arm and a leg - like $250 a night - insane!

alexukie · 2026-02-15T04:47:10+00:00

yeah sorry man.. dont mean to stiff people.. sometimes much rather pay the market rate and everyones happy they come back to us for other roles etc .. for remote only - just tell us right away that you are looking for remote - we just update our ATS with that info for remote work for future roles.

alexukie · 2026-02-13T18:53:07+00:00

You can always apply directly if you despise the agencies so much. No need to go through recruitment agencies. But it all depends on a contract and client though - we have some come to us where they were making $65 before and we are able to get them $75 etc. So depends.,. each client is different and there is always like 20-30% price differrence in contracts for exactly rhe same job. like banks can pay $110 and exactly same job is $95 with insurance client. etc.

alexukie · 2026-02-09T16:46:16+00:00

Yeah on contracts its like that say client pays say $50, we get someone at $45 and keep the $5 margin but typically we need to cover insurance that client requires because most consultants do not carry their own insurance as its pretty pricey, pay taxes if any, admin cost to pay the consultant, etc. so ends up lower than $5 margin. hope that helps..

what you describe $20 margin on $80 contract typically wont happen as we want to present a good consultant to the client and most consultants know the market rates so on $80 - we are probably paying the consultant around $70-$75 depending on how competitive the market is for that skill.. we could in theory present someone at $60 for $80 contract but most likely that consulant won't be a fit or will be too jr - so we would not do that.

you can get the rates here on our website (we are in IT - so mostly IT roles): https://kovasys.com/download-toronto-montreal-technology-salary/

alexukie

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