Recent content by Diggy77

Air locking the main drain with a solid valve has always worked for me. Any pool that I close and reopen in the spring is testament to that as when I open the drain valve you can hear the rush of air coming into that plumbing as the water is now pushing the air out. After doing an airlock...

Depth is usually around the 2nd step.. maybe 10 inches under water at normal skim depth. But lowering water for closing to just below skim, maybe 6 inches at the time of closing. We tend to get an inch, maybe two, of ice during the winter. My pool sense tells me to blow and plug, although...

Bubblers haven't been very common here, yet seem to be popular these days. I'm curious how TFP views this. Either .. lower water level below them, blow, antifreeze, plug.. Or.. blow, airlock, done. Since these tend to stay under a good bit of water, freeze may not be an issue...

With pump power off, try manually turning the motor shaft. Accessible on the rear of many pool pumps. Did it feel stuck, then turned after you gave it some strength?

I've had two ue booms.. good battery life and sounded perfect... until I got two Harman/kardon onyx studios.. excellent sound quality, but directional and battery might last 4 hours depending on volume level

A straight, rigid 2*4, four ft level.. duct tape level to 2*4. The longer the 2*4, the easier it is to check level between several blocks, prolly no longer than 12 ft though as too much flex otherwise. Choose the lowest block and dig all blocks to that level. May want to use a smaller level to...

Make sure its in the pool water to ensure same temps

A quarter inch of water loss per day could be evaporation.

Before going thru completely abandoning the main drain, I'd inspect the main drain gate valve further, may even just replace it... See what happens Polaris 380 is a pressure side cleaner that is designed to work in conjunction with a booster pump. If the pool has proper flow coming into the...

Google eyeball seat removal tool. There are a few to choose from. This will also help you removal the eyeball seat as sometimes those will remain in the wall after removing the retainer ring and eyeball. Though for your skimmer plug, you may need to fit this tool in the groove, then apply force...

I'm sorry, I misunderstood. A new liner along with whatever openings and closing you can get. You may want to contact the liner company thru a warranty claim as well.. and they should repair this one ASAP, if a repair is really possible. Cold winters/holes in a liner near the bead.. not good

As far as using the pool this year, that's a fair expectation.. assuming certain criteria.. which is always subject to change based on weather, and unfortunately these days, availability of materials. So on that basis a new pool owner isn't going to have much leg to stand on unfortunately...

It may be hindsight at this point, but your best bet may have been to add a lateral system feeding a sump well. 1 or 2 trenches dug just below subgrade of hopper, from the hopper leading to a sump well. Continually pumping the sump during the build would've kept you from having to deal with water.

Please clarify.. "give winter cover". Are you saying they are going to provide a solid safety cover and install free of charge? And generally speaking, 1 year opening and closing has been included in build contracts for companies I've worked for.