Recent content by PoolDr2112

Those red lines would be the correct cut spots. The other issue might be that once you cut out the old out, the horizontal pipe remaining might be a little short to get a good glue fitting with your new coupling. Perhaps consider using the flex hose and fittings that came with the Booster pump...

Uh oh. Someone used dwv (drain, waste, vent. not intended to be used in this application) fittings. The 2 couplings and 90* fitting between them need to be removed and replaced with pressure fittings.

Can you provide an up close picture of the area on the plumbing where the leak is? Watching the video, it looks like there is a compression type coupling where the water is leaking.

Fwiw I have seen Bicarb added to a pool and result in a fine powder silt on the pool bottom and had that powder pass through a cartridge filter when vac'ing :scratch: . The only fix for the problem was to vac the pool to waste using a portable pump and discharge hose to the driveway. There...

Correction: Do not replace the sand. You have already done that. Oops. Is your pH high, and have you possibly added alkalinity increaser (Bicarb) recently?

This is a fair concern as you will lose water. 500-1000 gallons depending on the size of the pool? But as a sand filter owner, the OP should be quite used to losing water to the backwash line due to the frequent needed backwashing of a sand filter. Perhaps infrequent backwashing is the cause...

Stop! I have had this same issue with very fine silt in the past. There is a simple solution. You have a multiport valve. Vacuum to waste and send the silt out to sewer or wherever your backwash line goes.

I know this is an old thread.......But for any future pump discharge leak repair persons that might want to know a really good way to fix this problem, or one similar, here it is. The front housing can be found with little effort either locally or online part # PEN355468 for under $100. Then...