Recent content by KristenG

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    Clogged return line

    It's funny how novice pool owners learn their lessons haha. In all seriousness, our shopvac has become our best friend . Happy swimming everyone ☀️
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    Clogged return line

    I hate to admit that we forgot to cover the pipe after we disconnected the equipment for the winter. This is something we will never forget to do again. I think what happened was that a chipmunk stored the acorns in the pipe and when we started up the filter the water forced the acorns to clog...
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    Clogged return line

    Well-some exciting news. We attached our shopvac to the return line by the filter. As a last ditch effort we thought maybe we could get out whatever might be stuck. After a few tries we found tons of acorns in the shopvac water from the pool! We kept using the vac until no more acorns came...
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    Clogged return line

    After many many hours of troubleshooting our pump/filter we had a company come out to help us figure out the problem. We have high filter pressure and very little return into the pool. The filter/ pump check out as functioning correctly. The diagnosis is that we have a clog in the return...