Recent content by Brianf60

My vinyl pool sat for a year while we rebuilt our house due to a fire. It took about 10 days to get water crystal clear but other than a bit of work vacuuming and brushing it wasn't too bad.

For the cost of a second Gizzmo I would use 2. More room to absorb any ice tgat forms.

Call me a conspiracy nut, buttt it would appear that the power company has sent someone to silence this guy.;)

You guys can't keep us in suspense any longer. Tell us how story ends!

The sand would hold a lot more water weight when it gets wet. It won't meter if the weight of the water is pushing back but empty.

All that dirt is a lot of weight, and I assume you compacted it as you backfilled? I used clear gravel for backfil when I built mine so there was no need. I think you need to excavate the dirt and the straighten the walls. Then drop the liner and fillnyje pool as you backfil. Otherwise you are...

If only one return is plugged can you run the pump with the others and leave the cap/ ring off of the plugged one? (Maybe it be come out over time)

In this scenario you would need to treat this line like an irrigation line. Do you have any lawn sprinklers installed? Winterizing would be done the same way.

I was thinking the same as Richard. A 90 degree fitting and a piece of pipe to put the drain at the correct hieght. You.'ve got it, so why not make it function as intended.

Just to recap to make I'm following. If you disconnect the wiring from your house to pool pump/ timer (you mentioned disconneting thd ground) the issue is no longer present?

Can you temporarily add another copper wire frombtge handrail to your bonding point at the pool equipment? Does this resolve the issue?it would be nice to know before you go through all of the work to remove the gave rail.

We backfilled (clear gravel) and poured the deck before installing liner when I built mine. If your bankrolling with dirt and need to mechanically compact it then it may be different. There are a lot of people on here that way more experience and hopefully will weigh in.

I believe it's only the concrete deck that needs bonded.

Follow Jimmy's advice. I would cut about 4 grooves perpendicular to the threads in the metal pipe using a cut-off wheel on a grinder. You are basically making a thread tap out of the metal pipe. Take your time and go in and out to let the plastic cut away come out and you will be successful. It...

I thought my heater was not working last spring and I eventually found that when the water is super cold the outlet temp is not much higher than input and it feels like the water coming out is cold but if I left it on long enough the temp did start to come up. What is your water temp?