Hi all - my parents just bought a house in my neighborhood and it has good sized pool. Probably late 70s vintage.
They haven't moved in yet so I went over to check out the setup and noticed the pool was getting mustard algae.
I dumped in a couple gallons of chlorine and went to try and figure out the pump setup.
It has the inground "caretaker" jets in lieu of the standard wall returns and no matter what I did I couldn't get them to do anything. The only wall returns for the pool are in the built in hot tub that spills over into the pool.
I took the unions off above the caretaker and the screen was completely blocked. Cleaned it and things started working. Yay!
Now the problem - as I was messing with the valves to get more pressure out of the in ground jets I noticed NOTHING going into the main drain in the pool.
I turned the valve to close off the skimmer completely and noticed the hot tub level going down quickly and starting to make a whirl pool. Best I can tell is the main drain in the hot tub is the only thing supplying water back to the pump and the pool main drain isn't doing anything.
Any thoughts of what I can try?
**Edit - so I just went and grabbed these pictures and noticed the return to the pump says skimmer and "Spa" main drain - where does the pool main go???
They haven't moved in yet so I went over to check out the setup and noticed the pool was getting mustard algae.
I dumped in a couple gallons of chlorine and went to try and figure out the pump setup.
It has the inground "caretaker" jets in lieu of the standard wall returns and no matter what I did I couldn't get them to do anything. The only wall returns for the pool are in the built in hot tub that spills over into the pool.
I took the unions off above the caretaker and the screen was completely blocked. Cleaned it and things started working. Yay!
Now the problem - as I was messing with the valves to get more pressure out of the in ground jets I noticed NOTHING going into the main drain in the pool.
I turned the valve to close off the skimmer completely and noticed the hot tub level going down quickly and starting to make a whirl pool. Best I can tell is the main drain in the hot tub is the only thing supplying water back to the pump and the pool main drain isn't doing anything.
Any thoughts of what I can try?
**Edit - so I just went and grabbed these pictures and noticed the return to the pump says skimmer and "Spa" main drain - where does the pool main go???
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