Recent content by morgan1757

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    70's piping layout question

    Actually that's a regular Jandy valve, the handle is just missing. My intent while I have everything empty is to replace all the valves with Jandy's.
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    70's piping layout question

    Hahah yea, exactly. It drains below jets, almost to the seat. I bought this house out of an estate, the caretaker had been sweeping and keeping chemicals in it more or less but didnt know anything about the pool or spa who could tell me much of anything.
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    70's piping layout question

    Interesting thought Jim. I have not really been able to use the spa much since it drains down about 2/3 as soon as you turn it off, it goes down some when running but mainly once off it goes down in about 2 hours, perhaps as I said, flowing back into pool as it does set a bit higher so I have...
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    70's piping layout question

    I bought a house about 5 years ago and has a 10 x 80 6' deep lap pool with a 5 x 5 hot tub totally separate no overflow or anything about 5' away. Pump went out as I was opening pool last year so didn't use it as well as it has seemed I have air leaks and had been struggling with it since we...
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    Hey all from Fort Worth Texas

    Thanks for the reply so quickly! I forgot to add, I did when cleaning everything tear down the filter and and do a total cleaning, I pulled the filters back out again about a month later and other than what "seemed" normal to me of debris it seemed ok, no MAJOR buildup so I left it intact...
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    Hey all from Fort Worth Texas

    Well like others I recently bought a house and it came with a pool. Wasn't something I was really looking for but I am going to give it a shot and we will see what the work/cost vs pleasure balance is. Pool is basically a lap pool about 12' wide and almost 100' long. Have haward DE60 filter...