Recent content by colleenhowe

The pipe with the black handle is actually the skimmer line. The one to the left of that is the vacuum port. We do not have a main drain, which has been very confusing for us. It sounds like we're going to need a jackahmmer and quite a bit of patience. 😒

Yes, it's odd that we don't have water loss. The pad isn't way above the pool. We drained quite a bit of water from the pool so we could clean out the skimmer and check it out, hence the low water level. The equipment is inside a little pool shed and the plumbing is very hard to access, but...

Hi Jim, Thanks for your reply. Excuse my stupid question, but what would we use to pressurize the line with air if both are plugged? And how would we know if it leaks? Unfortunately the entire space between the skimmer line and equipment pad is concrete, so we have not detected a wet spot. We...

I'll preface this by saying we are new pool owners. We do not know the age of the pool, but it's old and has been neglected. Upon startup of the pump, large amounts of rocks and red dirt are being pulled into the pump basket through the skimmer line. These rocks are the same rocks mixed in with...