Recent content by pachito

I just bought the house last year and I'm a first time pool owner. I was told half-way thru the pool season that my suction/output was bad. I spent the remainder of the season trying to figure out what was wrong and the pool guy said "we'll take care of it next year." This year it's even...

Bad news: Heater seems fine and all check valves seem fine. When we opened the union to the return line, we had a lot of pressure and water. The thing is, the return line goes downhill, so there really shouldn't be much or any water there. We tried to blow out the return line and barely got...

Great. I'm going to try all of this in the next few hours and see what I find out. After just looking at everything again, I realized I also have a check valve right before the chlorinator...another possible culprit I guess. That one won't be as easy to check, I don't think, so I hope I find...

Thanks. Any recommendations on type of check valve to replace that one with?

Wow...you guys are fast...thank you. The red valve opens to nothing...just a drain (very powerful when opened). I hooked up a hose to it yesterday so that I could leave it opened and the pump, flow, and suction all increased significantly. I'm not sure that I understand how to loosen the...

I've now had 2 pool company guys, a plumber, and several friends try to diagnosis and fix my pool flow problem. All of them say "this is really strange" but none of them have fixed the problem. The plumber said he would come back and start taking things apart, but it would be pricey. The pool...