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Thanks for your reply. Yes, that is exactly the setup we have. There is an overflow opening at the top but after checking it constantly we have never seen the water in the bucket come close to that hole. Here is the weird thing: We turned the autofill off and let the pool level go down about 1-2...

We have a spigot at our water supply by our house that connects underground to the typical auto fill valve by the pool in a plastic cannister. After noticing an increasing amount of water spilling out into the street from the pipe our builders installed, we found the sump pump was filling when...

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I notice my wier door is sitting maybe 10-20 degrees instead of the recommended 70.. I worry my skimmer could run dry if the door isnt getting enough water. Not to mention its hardly sucking up anything. Should I just remove the door? I dont have a floating wier basket; just a regular skimmer...

I read water should be 50-75% up the skimmer box. The skimmer our pool company built is like this.. (sorry for the bad quality. It's the only image I have before pool was filled). The entire opening is 5 tiles high. The skimmer box sits 3 tiles high from the bottom of the opening. If I were to...

We got our pool 1 year ago. The autofill is a traditional float mechanism. We have noticed water dumped from the overflow which goes out to our sidewalk. It appears to be 5-18 gallons, and the frequency has increased to just about every day. This happens overnight from what we can tell or the...

We have an attached spa sitting above our pool. It has a spillway feature where the overfilling comes down a fountain into the pool. In Spa mode, there are 5-6 dedicated jets. These have proper plastic covers that can be adjusted, turned, closed, etc. I am surprised it took me this long to...

Hmm. We have an autofill by the pool hooked up to the water supply.

I'm in the process of figuring out my plumbing. I have a cartridge filter, so no multiport valve up there, but there is a hose spigot in the plumbing 1-2 inches off the ground where the pool drain (and maybe skimmer?) suction is coming in. Why would there be a faucet here before it reaches the...

I am brushing but do not have a way that I know of to vacuum to waste with my cartridge filter. Vacuuming through the skimmer has not been successful because the debris is too fine.