Hi all.
New to the forums. looks like there is some good info here.
hope I'm posting this in the right place.
I am currently in the middle of building a new pool in Spain. The concrete base and the walls are complete. with 1.5" pipes in the walls for the 3 inlets & 1 Vac point, Skimmers also installed. main drain & light housing also installed.
Ive had a discussion with the pool shop in the local town. who did a rough sketch of the skimmer and inlet plumbing.
I have a couple of questions..
The inlet design by the shop looks correct to me as it should give equal flow to all inlets.
[attachment=0:2sozhlu8]Inlet design (Copy).jpg[/attachment:2sozhlu8]
The design for skimmer also looks ok BUT I'm concerned that if I were to get a blockage in the single pipe. I would loose the use of both skimmers?
[attachment=1:2sozhlu8]Skimmer design (Copy).jpg[/attachment:2sozhlu8]
Would I be better to run 2 seperate skimmer pipes back to the 3 or 4 way manifold with a valves on each pipe?
Should the vacume pipe be run straight to the manifold isolated with a valve in the pump house or can i connect it via the skimmer?
I can't seem to add images here.
So a link to photobucket of the 5 days of pool construction so far..
http://s10.photobucket.com/user/jodal66 ... ing%20Pool
http://s10.photobucket.com/user/jodal66 ... ool%20pics
Cheers
Jodal
New to the forums. looks like there is some good info here.
hope I'm posting this in the right place.
I am currently in the middle of building a new pool in Spain. The concrete base and the walls are complete. with 1.5" pipes in the walls for the 3 inlets & 1 Vac point, Skimmers also installed. main drain & light housing also installed.
Ive had a discussion with the pool shop in the local town. who did a rough sketch of the skimmer and inlet plumbing.
I have a couple of questions..
The inlet design by the shop looks correct to me as it should give equal flow to all inlets.
[attachment=0:2sozhlu8]Inlet design (Copy).jpg[/attachment:2sozhlu8]
The design for skimmer also looks ok BUT I'm concerned that if I were to get a blockage in the single pipe. I would loose the use of both skimmers?
[attachment=1:2sozhlu8]Skimmer design (Copy).jpg[/attachment:2sozhlu8]
Would I be better to run 2 seperate skimmer pipes back to the 3 or 4 way manifold with a valves on each pipe?
Should the vacume pipe be run straight to the manifold isolated with a valve in the pump house or can i connect it via the skimmer?
I can't seem to add images here.
So a link to photobucket of the 5 days of pool construction so far..
http://s10.photobucket.com/user/jodal66 ... ing%20Pool
http://s10.photobucket.com/user/jodal66 ... ool%20pics
Cheers
Jodal