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Just opened pool, Ph > 10 and CC = 5.5
- Swimming Pool Start-up and Closing
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Commercial Pool Products Denver | Bleach Delivery Front Range CO
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Chlorinating Liquid Disinfectant Shock, 1 Gallon - 10% Sodium Hypochlorite
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You can't buy from KIK, but you can ask them where you can buy their products.
KIK Corporation
33 Macintosh Boulevard
Concord, ON L4K 4L5
Canada
863-967-4463
Facility : Denver, CO.
3910 Joliet Street, Denver, Colorado
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Aqueos is "bulk...bleach distributors" (i.e. drums for commercial injection) and True Value isn't available at the store but for "special order". I appreciate the help. Let me know if you find any.
For what it's worth, my theory is that the residential pool market Denver really didn't exist pre-COVID. Even finding a pool company to do open/close/maintenance is very challenging. Most have lengthy wait lists so unfortunately you take what you can get (and if there isn't a wait list it's probably for good, or more likely bad, reasons).
Pentair Valve Actuator Acting Reversed
- By rjackson87
- Pool Automation
- 6 Replies
The industry seems interesting. I've helped a few neighbors with their pools and other thing already because many of them have don't have any handyman skills.Don’t lol…..try remembering toggle switch positions for 30 accounts on spring startup….then technology is better so no more toggles. It’s the first move you make when the valves act squirrelly upon opening.
Should I install a valve before this pump (picture)?
- By TwinsPool
- Pumps, Filters, and Plumbing
- 77 Replies
mas985,
Yes, as you said, the filter PSI is a bit lower with the basket. Maybe that's enough to prevent full priming?
With the basket (I call it ~26.5 PSI):
Without the basket (I call it ~27 PSI):
The heater is not bypassed, and cannot be bypassed with the current setup.
The underground pipe is 1.5" diameter. This picture of the copper pipe was taken while I had inlet PVC disconnected from the incoming copper pipe coming out of the concrete (at that time a few days ago, I replaced the O-ring in the PVC compression fitting at the copper pipe):
The horizontal distance of the copper pipe from the skimmer to the point it exits the ground near the pump is 25 feet. The PVC piping on the pad is a mixture of 2" and 1.5" PVC. Lots of 90 degree turns in the pad PVC pipes though (see pad pics in my post #53). EDIT: Also, all the underground piping for the return to the pool is also 1.5" copper. There are 3 return jets in the pool.
I think I fixed a potential small air leak at that copper-to-PVC transition with a new O-ring. At least the small water leak that I detected when shutting off the pump while priming was gone after the O-ring replacement. For more info, I talked about that repair in, and around, post #23.
Yes, as you said, the filter PSI is a bit lower with the basket. Maybe that's enough to prevent full priming?
With the basket (I call it ~26.5 PSI):
Without the basket (I call it ~27 PSI):
The heater is not bypassed, and cannot be bypassed with the current setup.
The underground pipe is 1.5" diameter. This picture of the copper pipe was taken while I had inlet PVC disconnected from the incoming copper pipe coming out of the concrete (at that time a few days ago, I replaced the O-ring in the PVC compression fitting at the copper pipe):
The horizontal distance of the copper pipe from the skimmer to the point it exits the ground near the pump is 25 feet. The PVC piping on the pad is a mixture of 2" and 1.5" PVC. Lots of 90 degree turns in the pad PVC pipes though (see pad pics in my post #53). EDIT: Also, all the underground piping for the return to the pool is also 1.5" copper. There are 3 return jets in the pool.
I think I fixed a potential small air leak at that copper-to-PVC transition with a new O-ring. At least the small water leak that I detected when shutting off the pump while priming was gone after the O-ring replacement. For more info, I talked about that repair in, and around, post #23.
