Ok - so I’ve lived in my house with my 10k pool for about a year of mostly trouble free ownership. Then this happened while I was away on vacation.
we had a pretty nasty squall line come through and my daughters kite on one side of the porch got blown into the pool. It eventually sunk and covered the main drain. Now again, I wasn’t home. The rain came through Saturday and I got home Sunday.
I’m assuming this caused an issue with the pump as when I got home the pool was half empty, the pump was running but nothing coming out. I immediately shut off the pump and opened up the strainer and it was literal steam coming out.
I refilled the pool, primed the pump, and it kicked it back on. Took a bit to get air out of the lines (have pop ups). And set the filter to run for 24 hours.
Woke up in the AM and the pool was down again, just enough to have the skimmer pulling air which (I’m not a scientist) exacerbates water loss through some heat and oxygenation.
Anyway, my question is me wondering if there is anything else I should check and confirm is in working order before I go through the process of getting the chemicals back in order? I’m not a pool expert either - so any guidance, videos, walk through etc would be great.
thank you
we had a pretty nasty squall line come through and my daughters kite on one side of the porch got blown into the pool. It eventually sunk and covered the main drain. Now again, I wasn’t home. The rain came through Saturday and I got home Sunday.
I’m assuming this caused an issue with the pump as when I got home the pool was half empty, the pump was running but nothing coming out. I immediately shut off the pump and opened up the strainer and it was literal steam coming out.
I refilled the pool, primed the pump, and it kicked it back on. Took a bit to get air out of the lines (have pop ups). And set the filter to run for 24 hours.
Woke up in the AM and the pool was down again, just enough to have the skimmer pulling air which (I’m not a scientist) exacerbates water loss through some heat and oxygenation.
Anyway, my question is me wondering if there is anything else I should check and confirm is in working order before I go through the process of getting the chemicals back in order? I’m not a pool expert either - so any guidance, videos, walk through etc would be great.
thank you