Re: What maintenance would you do with a pool before refilli
jblizzle said:
looks like you have a lot more room on the horizontal and can make things a little less crowded.
Taking the Jandy neverlube apart, I realized if I spin the entire assembly (the cap plus the valve plus the handle which only fits on the valve one way), then the INLET side is the concave inside curve on the far end of the valve so that the water goes from the pump to the valve near-end opening (marked INLET) to the far end of the valve to the concave part of the curved gate and then, by pressure against it, the valve seals shut on little glued-in o-ring materials along the squarish edges of the outside of the curved gate (facing the pool pipes).
So, apparently, spinning the inlet side does work as long as you also spin the curved gate along with it.
BTW, the pool is filling (I decided NOT to wash it this time because the plaster was sitting dry for far too long and it took me far too long to find the answers I needed.
Next time I'll be ready to wash it now that I know the gray is the plaster, the pretty blue is a copper stain, and the scratchy white is calcium grains due to lousy pool chemistry.
Maybe with better pool chemistry, I can actually get rid of the sandy white calcium and pretty blue stain over time without having to re-drain the pool!
Here's a shot of the pool filling up ...
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Here's one of the repaired pipes with the new Jandy valve:
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And, here's a closeup of the re-routing of the pipes:
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I'm not a plumber - I just DIY with your help ... so if you have any final advice on the repair ... let me know so I learn for the 'next' time.
I can't start it up yet (water needs to be at the level of the skimmers) so I won't know if the screw-tight coupling will hold the pressure (50 psi?) coming out of the cleaner pump or not
BTW, the company that makes the blue goop I used told me "pipe" "fitting" "pipe" when putting on the glue. Technical support said the pipe gets twice as much as the fitting does, no matter which part (fitting vs pipe) you have in your hand.
Note: I'm putting the cyanuric acid in as we speak because, without the filter running, it's using chlorine rather fast (being in the sun all day).