Hi! My pool heater started leaking underneath. I hired a local pro from yelp to install a bypass valve for my heater I'm not prepared to buy a new heater right now and he say it "wasn't worth" fixing. Instead, without asking, he cut out all the plumbing to my heater and took it with him in his truck when I wasn't looking, flexed apart the remaining short pipes and glued in two plastic connectors (see before and after photos). Is this done correctly? Now I can't install a new heater because he took my plumbing. He said he cut out my plumbing because my pipes are "warped" so his connectors don't fit. He said I need all new plumbing from my salt cell and to my filter due to "warped pipes" so he can install a connector to bypass the heater. I can't run my filter. Thoughts?
Need help! Bypass heater
- Thread starter kwh0202
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 52,794
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Welcome to TFP.
Show us all of your plumbing from the pump to the filter and into the returns.
We don’t know what the pipes look like that he took away.
A new heater will come with new unions and require replumbing anyway. I am not sure what he did is thst much of a big deal.
Show us all of your plumbing from the pump to the filter and into the returns.
We don’t know what the pipes look like that he took away.
A new heater will come with new unions and require replumbing anyway. I am not sure what he did is thst much of a big deal.
DavidArmenB
Well-known member
- Sep 7, 2022
- 259
- Pool Size
- 16500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
It’s no big deal. He just cut off the piping and bypassed the heater permanently. As soon as you get a new heater those 90s will be cut and replaced with couplers and new pipes with unions will connect to the new heater. It is no issue. Why can’t you run your filter pump?