Hi Everyone - again great forum, I only wish I had found you guys sooner!
New pool build recently completed. PB 'outsourced' the start-up and maintenance to another company. They don't do much, and are generally incommunicado. That said, I'm ready to take this upon myself, as clearly I care about keeping this pool clean a lot more than they do. (Familiar story I'm guessing)
Not sure if you guys can answer these questions, but I thought I'd throw out some questions/ pics and see if you all can educate me.
1. Here's my pool. Looks like 2 drains on the bottom (deep end) and 2 drains in the wall? They look the same, but could be something else. ***Most importantly*** are these 'drains' providing much suction? Will my kids goggles, swim suits, HAIR, get sucked into these and cause someone to drown? That's the Dad and former Lifeguard coming out in me. Same thoughts on the wall drains- are those potentially going to suck out my kids intestines if they get too close, or decide to do something dumb?
2. Right now I only have half the system running - separate pump for waterfall/ water features are not running and pump for pool cleaner is not running. So in the attached pic of pumps I'm trying to determine what the valves do. Through some careful experimentation, it seems the top facing valve changes the suction from mostly bottom drains, to mostly skimmer basket. (Or more accurately from what I can tell increases suction to skimmer when moved, I am assuming proportional decrease at the bottom drains) Can someone surmise what the two other valves do? (the two values lower down in the photo) I can't really tell if they are 'On' or 'Off' and I'm hesitant to mess with things too much here.
3. I really need to clean this pool now. My Pool Guy is basically dead to me at this point. I've taken care of pools for years in High School and College, but admittedly nothing this high-tech. In the old days I would stick a hose in the skimmer suction and use the vacuum head on a pool, and just vacuum the debris and dirt that way. I do I have a 'robot' thing (not currently authorized to use it I guess), but can someone tell me if the vacuum from skimmer process would be the same here?
New pool build recently completed. PB 'outsourced' the start-up and maintenance to another company. They don't do much, and are generally incommunicado. That said, I'm ready to take this upon myself, as clearly I care about keeping this pool clean a lot more than they do. (Familiar story I'm guessing)
Not sure if you guys can answer these questions, but I thought I'd throw out some questions/ pics and see if you all can educate me.
1. Here's my pool. Looks like 2 drains on the bottom (deep end) and 2 drains in the wall? They look the same, but could be something else. ***Most importantly*** are these 'drains' providing much suction? Will my kids goggles, swim suits, HAIR, get sucked into these and cause someone to drown? That's the Dad and former Lifeguard coming out in me. Same thoughts on the wall drains- are those potentially going to suck out my kids intestines if they get too close, or decide to do something dumb?
2. Right now I only have half the system running - separate pump for waterfall/ water features are not running and pump for pool cleaner is not running. So in the attached pic of pumps I'm trying to determine what the valves do. Through some careful experimentation, it seems the top facing valve changes the suction from mostly bottom drains, to mostly skimmer basket. (Or more accurately from what I can tell increases suction to skimmer when moved, I am assuming proportional decrease at the bottom drains) Can someone surmise what the two other valves do? (the two values lower down in the photo) I can't really tell if they are 'On' or 'Off' and I'm hesitant to mess with things too much here.
3. I really need to clean this pool now. My Pool Guy is basically dead to me at this point. I've taken care of pools for years in High School and College, but admittedly nothing this high-tech. In the old days I would stick a hose in the skimmer suction and use the vacuum head on a pool, and just vacuum the debris and dirt that way. I do I have a 'robot' thing (not currently authorized to use it I guess), but can someone tell me if the vacuum from skimmer process would be the same here?
