Recent content by evanw

Our previous pool maintenance guy would temporarily flip the diverter over to the main drain while brushing the floor as part of his cleaning routine, otherwise he kept it on 100% skimmer. Thoughts on that? I've read some advice that said running something like 80% skimmer / 20% main drain...

Thank you for the reply! The main drain does appear to be working (or at least somewhat working). I should clarify: My question is about what looks to be some damage to those "adjustment" notches, I'll highlight the areas of interest in the image below. I'm sure it'll still work good enough to...

So glad I found this thread -- I was doing a reverse image search on my own skimmer diverter valve which thankfully led me here. I just found my former pool guy did the exact same thing -- I don't think he was aware that the Pentair diverter was incorrect, and he wrapped it in a bunch of duct...

Hi folks! I'm new to TFP forums and to pool ownership -- I bought a house (built in the early 1980s) with an existing pool last year (~10,000 gallon outdoor pool in Southern California). I'm not sure when the pool was originally built, but I believe most of it is the original aside from being...