Recent content by Brushman

Thanks Joyful -- yes it was fully drained for one day to do the acid cleaning. But down here, if you don't fill the pool back up at least halfway back up with water as soon as you can, they often come up out of the ground.

Thanks Allen, familiar with spalling but not in the plaster context so I'll avoid that thin water layer issue. By chambers, I mean as shown in my profile picture -- scuppers fill a top chamber, that one drains over a rock wall into a secondary chamber and then from there the water spills into...

We're in the middle of a pool remodeling project -- acid wash of 12 year old plaster, replacing some equipment and replacing some of the pool deck tiles, scuppers and waterfall surfaces. Right now the main pool chamber is half empty and the two smaller chambers above that level are both totally...

Appreciate it LP, and your theory on why they’d urge vertical installation makes sense too.

Like someone said, I can't complain but sometimes I still do. BTW that gif is one of my favorite scenes in that great movie.

I pulled that one out of the sealed ziplock bag Pentair packs the new union couplers in that they include with each SWG. If that really IS the wrong size, they're the one and only source of it. Probably a kid in the Pentair warehouse laughing his backside off right now.

Takes a village. Especially with me in the loop. 😜

Here's another thing I changed this morning. I kicked this new OEM o-ring to the curb. It is one of the new ones Pentair sent me with my replacement SWG. It looks like it may be the wrong size? That would be a funny trick to play on a customer. Don't know, don't care, all's well now.

That collective advice and another go have somehow sealed the drip. I honestly can't believe it but I'll take it. Not even sure why it was different this time but I think it was a combination of alignment is no longer perfect, being more methodical about tightening each side of the nut with...

Yup. They got me to buy the cleaning kit with that one. Complete waste of time and money.

Good lord. They must have somebody they like in the ink business.

In the last 6 weeks: 1. Spider gasket failure in the multiport valve causing flow errors. No big deal, that happens. 2. Found that because I heard water trickling in the front yard one day. Investigated and found water flowing at the pool plumbing air gap / backflow preventer hidden in some...

The way my last 6 weeks of pool work have gone, it will DEFINITELY get worse.

Thanks and good to know. Mine have always done just fine horizontal. Out of curiosity, is there some kind of reason why Pentair wasted ink saying, "Install SWC vertically for best performance" in the manual? Maybe to give themselves an out on warranty claims? I hope not.