Hi All,
Bought a new house with a 15,000 gal pool. The pool has a Centurion 2HP pool pump and a Triton 2 sand filter. I am doing the pool chemistry myself every week (usually muriatic acid & shock), the the water is clean. The pool as those popup pool cleaners at the bottom of the pool. All the outside equipment looks pretty old (paint faded etc.), might be 10 years old, got no records from the previous owners.
The problems I am seeing are with the pool cleaning, I do see the popups pop up and run through their cycle when the pump is running, but there is quite a bit of sand/dirt build up at the bottom of the pool near the 2 main drains, it's as though they are not sucking in anything at all.
I do see pressure at the skimmer. All filters are clean. The sand filter has a pressure gauge, when the pump is running, pressure is lately only hitting about 8 bar, way below the correct operating range of 22 to 34 bar. Originally I had a guy out to look at the pressure issue, he recommended replacing two O ring seals, I did that, he did an air bleed and back pressure wash, and for a while the pump pressure was OK (seemed good for about 3 weeks or so).
I then had another company come out to look at the low pressure problem, and all they recommended was replacing the pump & all surrounding equipment, $2,600.
So with all that, is there a way I could do some kind of test on the pump to verify it's working with enough pressure before I look at a big spend of pump associated equipment replacement?
Thank you,
Sean
Bought a new house with a 15,000 gal pool. The pool has a Centurion 2HP pool pump and a Triton 2 sand filter. I am doing the pool chemistry myself every week (usually muriatic acid & shock), the the water is clean. The pool as those popup pool cleaners at the bottom of the pool. All the outside equipment looks pretty old (paint faded etc.), might be 10 years old, got no records from the previous owners.
The problems I am seeing are with the pool cleaning, I do see the popups pop up and run through their cycle when the pump is running, but there is quite a bit of sand/dirt build up at the bottom of the pool near the 2 main drains, it's as though they are not sucking in anything at all.
I do see pressure at the skimmer. All filters are clean. The sand filter has a pressure gauge, when the pump is running, pressure is lately only hitting about 8 bar, way below the correct operating range of 22 to 34 bar. Originally I had a guy out to look at the pressure issue, he recommended replacing two O ring seals, I did that, he did an air bleed and back pressure wash, and for a while the pump pressure was OK (seemed good for about 3 weeks or so).
I then had another company come out to look at the low pressure problem, and all they recommended was replacing the pump & all surrounding equipment, $2,600.
So with all that, is there a way I could do some kind of test on the pump to verify it's working with enough pressure before I look at a big spend of pump associated equipment replacement?
Thank you,
Sean
