I'm back... Thanks to all of you who helped me last season with my green pool, we had a killer season, and I developed a liking of taking care of the pool... it's kind of relaxing.
Anyways, here's an old pic or two of my setup, we decided to try and get it going today. Raked and raked the big stuff out of the bottom, added a bunch of shock and some bleach to get the algae moving, primed the lines with the garden hose and fired up the unit with freshly cleaned filters.
Everything worked like it should but my pressure gauge wouldn't give me a reading, and after a few minutes of bleeding air from the little top valve, with a fairly steady stream, I closed it and let the filter run on high. A few minutes later if I opened the bleeder valve it had a bunch of air, and repeating that, longer periods of running resulted in larger amounts of air, and eventually the pump got a little louder, but not bad, or maybe it was me, but I shut it down. No obvious hissing leaks or anything, but it definitely isn't holding it's air-tightness.... any thoughts?
Pressure coming out of the jets looks fine, and the water is swirling around the little catch basket before the pump...
I'm going to use my test kit tomorrow and get some numbers, but I wanted to make sure all of the equipment is working. It's not nearly as bad as it was last year, but it's green....
Anyways, here's an old pic or two of my setup, we decided to try and get it going today. Raked and raked the big stuff out of the bottom, added a bunch of shock and some bleach to get the algae moving, primed the lines with the garden hose and fired up the unit with freshly cleaned filters.
Everything worked like it should but my pressure gauge wouldn't give me a reading, and after a few minutes of bleeding air from the little top valve, with a fairly steady stream, I closed it and let the filter run on high. A few minutes later if I opened the bleeder valve it had a bunch of air, and repeating that, longer periods of running resulted in larger amounts of air, and eventually the pump got a little louder, but not bad, or maybe it was me, but I shut it down. No obvious hissing leaks or anything, but it definitely isn't holding it's air-tightness.... any thoughts?
Pressure coming out of the jets looks fine, and the water is swirling around the little catch basket before the pump...
I'm going to use my test kit tomorrow and get some numbers, but I wanted to make sure all of the equipment is working. It's not nearly as bad as it was last year, but it's green....