Recent content by stevex

Sorry, updated the sig. I don't know the water table level. The pool is on a hill, so about 20' from the back of the pool you're standing below where the bottom of the pool is, so I think the water table would be below the bottom of the pool. It's also right next to the house which has a...

My pool water level's been dropping. We've had a very dry summer so at first I just attributed it to evaporation, but we went away for 5 days and came back to the pool being down over a foot. I don't see a leak in the liner, and the water level has dropped below the returns. The only thing I...

Well this sounds promising. The PVC heading up to the sand filter was a bit less stiff than usual but nothing looked melted. The filter basket is okay. So maybe I got lucky. Guess I'll find out tomorrow. If it won't prime tomorrow - what then? Is this a repair or a replace?

Yeah I figured that subject would get your attention. I uncovered the pool a couple days ago and fired up the pump. Everything seemed fine - enough suction to run the pool cleaner. Today I went to check on the pump and I see there's no water moving. One of the knobs that holds the basket lid...

I have a skimmer basket, the lid identifies it as a Jacuzzi "Model PM". I was there when I bought the house, and never had a basket or weir door. I've finally had it with floating junk on the surface of my pool so I'd like to get this fixed up. But I can't find parts. Apparently this...

I came up with a solution that I think will work. I bought 10' of flexible vinyl tube at Lowes and a stopper for one end of it. I inserted it down the drain hole, open end first, all 10' of it, and then screwed the gizzmo in on top of it. The tube holds its shape but you can squeeze it in...

So I think I figured out where the 2nd line from the skimmer goes - to the main drain. I can't really blow this out, since the drain's at the bottom of the pool and I don't have any way of plugging that. If I blow into that line in the skimmer, the water just flows back in through the drain...

I don't see an inlet near the skimmer. Hmm.

Hi. I'm a newbie here, and a newbie to pools. Bought a house with an in-ground pool, moved in in early September. Foolishly said "no thanks" when the previous owner offered to close it, and now I'm paying for about a weeks worth of pool usage with having to figure out how to close the pool...