I've got absolutely no clue where to start!

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Just an update, been about 6 hours of system running and I've noticed no water drop with all valves open. Hopeful but skeptical! I hardly believe in coincidence and it's so odd that everything went to down hill when I opened that skimmer valve. I am so untrusting of it right now LOL been out there every 30 minutes.

I decided I wanted some more movement for now, so I bumped the rpm to 3,000 for 2 hours in the morning, 2000 most of the day, and 2400 for the remaining few hours. I'll turn all that way down once we're clearing, unless this sounds bad for now.

FC check around was 9.5, 1cc. Odd that it was the same as my earlier check a few hours ago, after adding recommended amount of bleach. I dumped in a bit more then the pool app said just now, trying not to let it fall below 10 while I go to sleep.

This has been a long day, I am soooo sleepy.

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Oh, my dad spent 20 minutes or so trying to brush along the deep end of the pool to locate the main drain and couldn't find it. Obviously we have one! I am wondering, if it doesn't have a safey cover, would it be very hard to distinguish? I assume the covers are slightly elevated, and we'd notice a bump. Are covers easy to get if so? Obviously it needs one. Reading all the disembowelment and entrapment warnings on the filter/pump booklets is scary o_O
Also possible I think that my pole is just a few inches too short to reach it...
 
Sounds like you have a drain down there somewhere. You do want to find it and also ensure you have removed anything else that could possibly be sitting on the bottom. Noting slows a SLAM worse than debris unfound. Also, some pools have their drain mounted on the lower side of a wall, so keep that in mind as well.
 
Morning pic. Haven’t tested fc yet. I was hoping to see a bigger difference. I’m starting to think of upping fc to 12 instead of 10 and rpms on the filter?

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Water level held strong!! ???

So that mystery pipe on the deep end of the pool
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It has suction. Sucking water in. What could it be?
 
Strawberryshortcake said:
Morning pic. Haven’t tested fc yet. I was hoping to see a bigger difference. I’m starting to think of upping fc to 12 instead of 10 and rpms on the filter?

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Water level held strong!! ???


So that mystery pipe on the deep end.....

It has suction. Sucking water in. What could it be?
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Okay that's great update ?
Agreed on upping FC

That pipe is weird for sure! It's too high for a cleaner port (I think)
 
Splashy look how someone added the pipe going down. I bet they did that because they put it too high and this was their fix. I bet it is a cleaner port.

Strawberry, Where is the pic of your equipment pad? I am thinking/hoping there is a valve we can move to shut that pipe off. That thing could cause some major problems if a kid decides to play with it.
 

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kimkats said:
Splashy look how someone added the pipe going down. I bet they did that because they put it too high and this was their fix. I bet it is a cleaner port.

Strawberry, Where is the pic of your equipment pad? I am thinking/hoping there is a valve we can move to shut that pipe off. That thing could cause some major problems if a kid decides to play with it.
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just wanting to follow this epic thread?
 
kimkats said:
Splashy look how someone added the pipe going down. I bet they did that because they put it too high and this was their fix. I bet it is a cleaner port.

Strawberry, Where is the pic of your equipment pad? I am thinking/hoping there is a valve we can move to shut that pipe off. That thing could cause some major problems if a kid decides to play with it.
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Agreed Kim, lol (I was mobile so couldn't add my usual long details ;)

I *did/do* think it is a misplaced cleaner port. (one observation: things (aka algae) did not appear "pushed" away from it (I wanted it to be a return badly!)
Also wondering... is there a drain?

@Strawberryshortcake : Do you know know which valve is the "drain" and which is the "skimmer"?
I would turn them down 1 at a time and check the suction at the pipe, is it tied with the skimmer or the "drain"?
 
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Strawberryshortcake said:
You’re right, the suction is more then strong enough to be concerning, Id love it stop it however we can.
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I would replace the cone they have on it with a Suction Screen Strainer, then once the pool is clear enough to see what's going on in the depths, you can see if it can be safely (pump water source) plugged or not. For now you can leave that port open part way, to make sure you don't water starve your new pump :)
 
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So, I have a question about this lol.

We raked and raked and raked and brushed and pushed for a week now and nothing was coming up.

Could my new pump have somehow loosened the leaf patch on the deep end? Like, was it a solid mass before or WHAT.

That is 3 piles. And it wasn’t just from one area. We are pulling them from all over the deep end now.
 

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