- Jul 18, 2020
- 24
- Pool Size
- 8000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-3)
Hi there,
I own a house with 8.000 gallon infinity pool on a small island in Thailand, and the lack of skilled pool experts is quite high - additional to the fact that I don't speak thai. In general I even repair my JEEP myself, or do general maintenance work on the house, so I would describe myself as quite handy.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to upgrade my 6 year old pool pump and setup, which was installed by the construction company building the house back then.
My main concern was always noise, since the pump is sitting in my basement directly underneath my living room and it's all on concrete, with concrete posts and beams - second reason is electricity cost. VSF pumps seem to be way more cost efficient and with 24/7 run time, my infinity would never dry up. At the moment I run 7 hours.
I was able to reduce the noise issue quite a lot by placing the pump on 2" thick rubber-corc-blocks and especial by replacing the pvc pipe with rubber hoses on both sides, so the vibration is much less transferred to the surroundings and into the concrete.. which ends up in my living room. But I can still hear the buzzing while it runs. I would also preffer replacing those rubber hoses with proper hoses actually made for that use case.. maybe order them from amazon (as I do with my JEEP parts)
I've found the Pentair variable speed pumps and initially wanted to go with a super flow.. but they are quite hard to find here, but I found a dealer with intelliflo or whisperflo. I've looked more into it and it seems those have 2" connection, to run at less RPM and be even more quiet. While currently having 1.5" plumbing on my hayward pump, all other piping is 2". Including the hayward salt water cell and the hayward sand filter. My pool has 3 water inlets on the bottom (two 2" pipes, one goes to the inlet and one splits to two other inlets) and that's it. Overflow runs into a huge concrete water tank in my basement, to cool the water temp down, from which the pump pulls the water in. Pool is 6.93m x 2.87m x 1.5m and the bottom of my pool is about 3 meters above where the pump sits in my basement.
While I would have to redo some of the PVC piping connecting the pump, it seems to be worth it to run a 2" VSF pump?
I've also a 1.5" flowback/check valve, so my pool doesn't run into my basement when the pump stops.. which is sometimes quite noisy, too with that spring/ball construction inside.. so I could replace that with a proper 2" solution too. Stupid question.. does is matter if they installed vertical or horizontal?
I'm open to any feedback, questions, help, recommendations or anything to get a better picture what to do...
Thanks,
Michael
I own a house with 8.000 gallon infinity pool on a small island in Thailand, and the lack of skilled pool experts is quite high - additional to the fact that I don't speak thai. In general I even repair my JEEP myself, or do general maintenance work on the house, so I would describe myself as quite handy.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to upgrade my 6 year old pool pump and setup, which was installed by the construction company building the house back then.
My main concern was always noise, since the pump is sitting in my basement directly underneath my living room and it's all on concrete, with concrete posts and beams - second reason is electricity cost. VSF pumps seem to be way more cost efficient and with 24/7 run time, my infinity would never dry up. At the moment I run 7 hours.
I was able to reduce the noise issue quite a lot by placing the pump on 2" thick rubber-corc-blocks and especial by replacing the pvc pipe with rubber hoses on both sides, so the vibration is much less transferred to the surroundings and into the concrete.. which ends up in my living room. But I can still hear the buzzing while it runs. I would also preffer replacing those rubber hoses with proper hoses actually made for that use case.. maybe order them from amazon (as I do with my JEEP parts)
I've found the Pentair variable speed pumps and initially wanted to go with a super flow.. but they are quite hard to find here, but I found a dealer with intelliflo or whisperflo. I've looked more into it and it seems those have 2" connection, to run at less RPM and be even more quiet. While currently having 1.5" plumbing on my hayward pump, all other piping is 2". Including the hayward salt water cell and the hayward sand filter. My pool has 3 water inlets on the bottom (two 2" pipes, one goes to the inlet and one splits to two other inlets) and that's it. Overflow runs into a huge concrete water tank in my basement, to cool the water temp down, from which the pump pulls the water in. Pool is 6.93m x 2.87m x 1.5m and the bottom of my pool is about 3 meters above where the pump sits in my basement.
While I would have to redo some of the PVC piping connecting the pump, it seems to be worth it to run a 2" VSF pump?
I've also a 1.5" flowback/check valve, so my pool doesn't run into my basement when the pump stops.. which is sometimes quite noisy, too with that spring/ball construction inside.. so I could replace that with a proper 2" solution too. Stupid question.. does is matter if they installed vertical or horizontal?
I'm open to any feedback, questions, help, recommendations or anything to get a better picture what to do...
Thanks,
Michael