Recent content by galleymore

Sorry, they are heat pumps, my mistake! I could probably get away with a few 200lb tanks, but was concerned about the consumption of the LP heaters and running out of gas!! Do you know the consumption rate og LP gas heaters? what sort of capaicty would I need for a weeks worth of heating...

Hi All I look after a 90,000gal pool (residential, not commercial) and need to look at heaters... Currently I have three jandy electric heaters (120k-btu each) which struggle on cool days to get the temp up (they are quite old now!) So.....being a rental property, the pool is only heated a...

Hi I have a large pool (80,000 gal) which is in a rental property, as a result the heaters (3 of them!) are off most of the time. When we have a booking, say once a month, we fire up the heaters and it can take 3-4 days to get up to 85-88!! If the air temp is low, or it rains we do not even...

Hi I have a HEATWAVE heater and recently I have notices a constant stream of water from the top of the heat exchanger? This happen if the heater is on or not, and as a result my pool level drops by an inch or so every few days. It seems to be coming form a small module (about the size of a...

I just noticed this post and I have a little query with the Inteliflo / T104 scenario that I hope you guys can clarify for me? The pump needs to be connected to a source of power permantly, with the T104 timer, the power is cut off when the lug hits the designated time? When the ON lug connects...

many thanks for all the advice everyone.... This site gives me the confidence to get more involved with my pool! case closed!

Hi Thanks! This is a residential pool with a manual filling outlet into the surge tank, so I know its not fresh water going in. Now I have both reduced the surge tank level, AND shut off the pump and all valves on separate ocasions and the pool and tank have equalised...I now know that the...

With the help of the great advice above...I think its problem solved?? I drained the surge tank, dropping the water by a good few feet. (This meant the pool was now the "head of water"?) The ball valves on the main drain valve were still submerged, meaning the valve was closed(?) I then noticed...

Thanks Dave So.....if I reduce the level in the surge tank by enough, the main drain valve should open (ball floats drop) and the pool should send water down the main drain to try to equalise? Thus telling me if its blocked or not? When the ball floats are fully submerged, is that valve fully...

Many thanks all!! some really good advice! This is not a new pool but existing I'm just getting involved with it, and the drawing is the closest thing to my set-up that I could find on the internet. I feel there maybe an issue with the main bottom drain(?) as when the pool is unused the water...

No, open top. Its a concerte "box"

Hi All As a newbie lookig after a large pool, I have found some excellent advice here....so here goes again! I have a surge tank (pool has overflow gutters to all sides) and the pump sucks straight out of the concrete surge tank (which is basically designed as per the picture attached) My Q...

I did think of that see sand-or-cartridge-filter-t27025.html And yes, my pool is in an area of VERY high water rates! Gives me lots to sleep on, thanks all for your great advice!

Sorry.....i have confused the issue! Basically, if I backwash and send the BW water into a large plastic tank...could I then drain off the water thru a filter (cartridge?) to trap the dirt etc and leave the "salt solution / pool water" to flow back into the pool, which is now (in theory) free...