If it can be pulled apart it can be reglued? I guess I just assumed once it was glued it was toast and needed to be cut. Good to know.
Should I be concerned about this leak?
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I’m not sure if it would work with your full plumbing but if I were cutting into mine I’d 100% be cutting where you indicated and also installing a T with a valve for draining while I had it all open.
Any leak, especially on the pressure side, should be repaired ASAP. Its a waste of water, chemicals, could get very worse, and won't get better on its own. As someone mentioned, a bad glue joint, using clear glue and no primer, can blow apart with a huge loss of water that could cause problems in other areas.
Your marked area for cutting is good. Since you can remove the pipe at the heater, this is a very easy repair. Just be sure to lube the O ring if you remove the heater fitting.
Never though of the drainage valve. I always just drained at my cartridge filter and went from there. Is there any positive to the T fitting over just draining at the filter?
Does it need to be a special o ring lube? Or can I get something at Home Depot?
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With a valve and some fittings you can control where the water goes. You could plumb in an adapter after the valve from whatever your pipe is, say 2”, to hose thread and screw on a garden hose when you want to drain it from your pad to some distant place. I even saw some posts last night where they replaced the cartridge filter drain plug with some fittings and valves to get the same effect and that seemed genius to me as well.
Right now I have a spigot between my pump and filter and I connect a hose from there to some PVC I buried and then connect a firehose from the other end to the street. Someday I’m gonna finish the PVC all the way to road and also replace the garden hose/spigot with PVC and a valve and no longer have to do anything but turn a valve to drain to the street.
Replacing Pentair CCP drain port with a valve and hose attachment
I thought this might be of interest to some people -- I have a Pentair CCP420 filter on a concrete pad with the pumps, and opening the drain makes a big mess everywhere, so I wanted the ability to connect a hose to a better location when cleaning the filter or draining excess water from the...
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Currently we just have the spigot like you between the pump and filter but also have sub surface drainage through the backyard with one of the drains about 3’ from the pad. Last time I needed to drain I just hooked a 6’ garden hose to the spigot and dropped it into the drain which is connects straight the city’s drainage at the street.With a valve and some fittings you can control where the water goes. You could plumb in an adapter after the valve from whatever your pipe is, say 2”, to hose thread and screw on a garden hose when you want to drain it from your pad to some distant place. I even saw some posts last night where they replaced the cartridge filter drain plug with some fittings and valves to get the same effect and that seemed genius to me as well.
Right now I have a spigot between my pump and filter and I connect a hose from there to some PVC I buried and then connect a firehose from the other end to the street. Someday I’m gonna finish the PVC all the way to road and also replace the garden hose/spigot with PVC and a valve and no longer have to do anything but turn a valve to drain to the street.
Replacing Pentair CCP drain port with a valve and hose attachment
I thought this might be of interest to some people -- I have a Pentair CCP420 filter on a concrete pad with the pumps, and opening the drain makes a big mess everywhere, so I wanted the ability to connect a hose to a better location when cleaning the filter or draining excess water from the...
Never thought of it to drain the lines though. Can that spigot be used to drain the pipes with the pump off and not have to make a mess draining the filter?
You got it made with the drains right there!
If your setup is like mine, I think you could probably shut off all the valves, open the spigot and get a good chunk of the water out, but you still may have enough junk in the housing that you’d want that water flowing through the drain at the bottom anyway
Wish I could take credit but it was most certainly a happy accident. I’ll empty out tomorrow and probably replumb. Not worth the risk I guess and my anxiety won’t let me gamble on it either.
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Glad I checked that heater o-ring too because there wasn’t one!! Had to go back to the pool store to buy one to put it
IMHO, nothing says hack more in pool plumbing than purple primer and blue glue. I use the clear primer and clear glue. The plumbing is exposed to some degree so neatness counts. (If it needs to be inspected, use whatever the inspector wants lol)
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Well I can’t argue that but also it was me doing to work so it’s far from a professional install. Just a weekend warrior doing his best to save a few bucks and learn a few things in the meantime.IMHO, nothing says hack more in pool plumbing than purple primer and blue glue. I use the clear primer and clear glue. The plumbing is exposed to some degree so neatness counts. (If it needs to be inspected, use whatever the inspector wants lol)
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No leaks and the kids could get back in the pool this evening so I consider it a success!
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