Hi there,
I've just purchased a home with a pool and it's my first time as a pool owner. I'm super excited to have found this site, because I'm having a lot of challenges! First things first, the pool is 50 ft x 20 ft and has an average depth of 7 feet (deepest end is 10 feet). It's massive... but presently we are trying to remedy multiple issues before swimming.
PROBLEM AREA #1) DE FILTER AT HIGH PRESSURE
Pool has a DE filter (Pentaire NSP 72) with the push style backwash valve. 12 days ago the seller had the DE filter cleaned by a pool company. I do not know whether they just cleaned it, cleaned and refilled DE, backwashed, backwashed and refilled. After this the pressure gauge was reading about 15 PSI, but now it is reading 35 PSI!!! Clearly I need to backwash this asap, but I have not found a good Youtube video for this model. Any instructions for this from the photo below? (REF PHOTO #1)
PROBLEM AREA #2) No clue what's up with this pool plumbing! Now, I've got a tiny bit of experience plumbing reef aquaria, but this thing has bare minimal valves and no labels on anything. These things coupled with my lack of experience in pools leaves me unsure what's going where, or how to do basic things like divert water to waste. Can anyone help me diagram this? (SEE REF PHOTO #1)
PROBLEM #3) Polaris backflow valve may be shot- it's always shooting high pressure water out of that backflow tail and there is pretty much no suction at the body into the filter bag at all. Rather the thing just kinda wanders around past stuff on the bottom and nothing is being pulled in. Is this the only issue? There is also a leak at the wall (PHOTO #2) and the body has some apparent degradation (PHOTO #3)
Thank you so much in advance for your time and help!
Angela
I've just purchased a home with a pool and it's my first time as a pool owner. I'm super excited to have found this site, because I'm having a lot of challenges! First things first, the pool is 50 ft x 20 ft and has an average depth of 7 feet (deepest end is 10 feet). It's massive... but presently we are trying to remedy multiple issues before swimming.
PROBLEM AREA #1) DE FILTER AT HIGH PRESSURE
Pool has a DE filter (Pentaire NSP 72) with the push style backwash valve. 12 days ago the seller had the DE filter cleaned by a pool company. I do not know whether they just cleaned it, cleaned and refilled DE, backwashed, backwashed and refilled. After this the pressure gauge was reading about 15 PSI, but now it is reading 35 PSI!!! Clearly I need to backwash this asap, but I have not found a good Youtube video for this model. Any instructions for this from the photo below? (REF PHOTO #1)
PROBLEM AREA #2) No clue what's up with this pool plumbing! Now, I've got a tiny bit of experience plumbing reef aquaria, but this thing has bare minimal valves and no labels on anything. These things coupled with my lack of experience in pools leaves me unsure what's going where, or how to do basic things like divert water to waste. Can anyone help me diagram this? (SEE REF PHOTO #1)
PROBLEM #3) Polaris backflow valve may be shot- it's always shooting high pressure water out of that backflow tail and there is pretty much no suction at the body into the filter bag at all. Rather the thing just kinda wanders around past stuff on the bottom and nothing is being pulled in. Is this the only issue? There is also a leak at the wall (PHOTO #2) and the body has some apparent degradation (PHOTO #3)
Thank you so much in advance for your time and help!
Angela