Recent content by Robrike

I think next year my pump and motor along with sand filter spider valve???? Will come in next year. I started up this year to find pump was fine aside from seal leak but had a crack in my sand filter body even with drain plug from sand filter left removed all year. The guy that replaced sand...

Thank you for the reply. I'll let the bearings be for the time being then. I'll just replace the seal and gaskets and see how that does. If I have problems down the road I'll dig back into it. Not much mechanical intimidates me so it will all be fine. Thank you Robert

Hey. I have been all over my phone searching for info on a Dynatech pump connected to my Hayward Superpump I believe. Model and serial is gone from pump plate but pictures match it up to a SuperPump. I ordered a seal kit for it, it seems to have a pretty decent leak going on. Before I dig...

I got home about 7:15 this morning and things were looking much better. I could actually make out an outline of the main drain in the deep end. I'm still losing about 3 to 4 ppm of FC every 6 to 8 hours so I plan to keep the slam.up and run the pump and filter 24/7. Brushed and vacuumed 3...

It will be tough to teach her, she doesn't really want to learn. She wanted the house but not the pool that came with it when we made the house purchase last year.? Go figure. I'll work on her though. At least she will bring me a water sample, that much I know. Lol. I'll report back soon...

Thanks Dave. I'll keep the slam up and leave the filter on full time. I have my main drain opened up full and the skimmers throttled back to 50% or so. Hoping pulling from deep end will clear it up quicker. Guess I just need to work on my patience a little.[emoji36] I'll keep up the slam...

Hey RonsPlc. Thanks for the advice. I will keep up the slam and brushing and see how it goes. I see progress but it seems slower than last year. Guess that's how it goes sometimes. Nothing is ever consistent. Question on slam while at work. I work 24 hour shifts so would having my wife...

Hello everyone. I posted a couple weeks ago about opening to a green swamp with tons of leaves in pool. Cleaned them out and found out my sand filter was shot. Kept chlorine at 10 with pump on recirculate till I got new filter. Filter was installed Thursday and I can't seem to get my water...

Do you actually have gas running thru that PVC line?? To the best of my knowledge that is not up to code anywhere ever. Be VERY CAREFUL working around that line. PVC can get pretty brittle in general, no telling what natural gas running thru it could do to its integrity. If it were me I...

That looks fantastic!!! Awesome to be able to follow the build with your pictures. Love these types of threads. Enjoy your new addition this summer. Robert

Hey. Thanks for the reply. A little update to this, I checked chlorine about 6pm and had 1.0 FC and 0.0 CC so I went ahead and added a gallon of 10% chlorine and put 6lbs of stabilizer in 2 socks and got them in the water and added 80lbs of salt. My filter won't be in till Thursday so all I...

Hey, Closed the pool per instructions here for first time ever last year. Bought house in March of last year and knew Hayward S244t drain threads had seen better days but extra teflon tape cured a leak. Pulled cover off 2 days ago and way more leaves than expected had blown under cover and...

Hey. I just made up that contraption with a male end to connect my air hose directly to and a shut off valve in line with it then a female coupling that could connect to the male coupling that screwed into the pump drain hole. That way as I shut off a skimmer valve I could close off the air...

Here is the valve and fittings I rigged up to close pool. Cheap and easy setup.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Just following up, yesterday I finally closed my pool myself. Well, all the lines are blown out and some antifreeze added for that warm and cozy feeling on my first try. I rigged up a fitting to screw into drain fitting of pump and used my air compressor and...