Hello All,
Just coming to get some opinions on my current dilemma. Long story short the partner of my late grandfather whom we've basically been taking care of since he passed the last 10 years or so and was a bit of a hermit was nearing 90 and showing some memory issues and her children finally decided it was time to come pick up mom and move her across country with her. This leaves me to deal with my late grandfathers house that she was living in and has a fairly nice pool that was never used. I have experience properly keeping up a pool with Taylor test kits, cartridge filters, and liquid chlorine and other chems to maintain as perfect levels as possible and as easily as possible ( surprise - all thanks to TFP!). However this setup is a little bit different than I am used to, but no worries there, I will brush up on the TFP guides and surely be ahead of the game.
Since I will only be visiting the house once a week I see no reason to continue paying the pool company to come open the pool and another ~$400 a month to maintain it throughout the spring/summer/fall season. All they were doing is coming by once a week to empty the skimmer, drop in 3-5 tabs (according to old invoices), and brush it - I assume anyways. My plan is to spend around $900 on a skimmer and brush robot like my old pool and call it a day and drop some tabs in once a week when I go get groceries over near that area and other chems as needed. Ultimately pretty simple stuff. Would love to do liquid but I wont be there that often.
Anyways to the meat of the question - as far as I can tell the pump has no timer to run it. That seemed like such a standard piece of equipment to me that I am a bit baffled to be honest. My late grandfathers partner certainly wasn't going out every single day and manually running the pump all these years, did the pool maintenance company just allow the pump to run 24/7 or am I blind and missing a timer right in front of my face? I'll attach pictures but I've traced the electric from the pump to all the electric on the wall and do not see anything resembling a timer - mind you there is a black "TORO" box but I think that runs the lights right above it, I haven't cracked it open to look yet though as its taped shut, very slim chance thats a timer running the pool in there but that would be the only place, I'll investigate further later this week when I have time. Pool is currently closed down still from winter.
With no timer is my only option to just leave the pump running 24/7 for the next 5 months? A bit of a rhetorical question I suppose because if there is truly no timer it would make sense to just pay the money to have one installed(I don't want to spend more than I have to since we have a time limit in which we now have to sell the house, but of course it would be nice for the next owner to have it set up properly - I'd love to redo the whole area if I could its a bit dated), I'm just baffled and wonder if that's how its been running this whole time.
Anyways any input would be appreciated!
Just coming to get some opinions on my current dilemma. Long story short the partner of my late grandfather whom we've basically been taking care of since he passed the last 10 years or so and was a bit of a hermit was nearing 90 and showing some memory issues and her children finally decided it was time to come pick up mom and move her across country with her. This leaves me to deal with my late grandfathers house that she was living in and has a fairly nice pool that was never used. I have experience properly keeping up a pool with Taylor test kits, cartridge filters, and liquid chlorine and other chems to maintain as perfect levels as possible and as easily as possible ( surprise - all thanks to TFP!). However this setup is a little bit different than I am used to, but no worries there, I will brush up on the TFP guides and surely be ahead of the game.
Since I will only be visiting the house once a week I see no reason to continue paying the pool company to come open the pool and another ~$400 a month to maintain it throughout the spring/summer/fall season. All they were doing is coming by once a week to empty the skimmer, drop in 3-5 tabs (according to old invoices), and brush it - I assume anyways. My plan is to spend around $900 on a skimmer and brush robot like my old pool and call it a day and drop some tabs in once a week when I go get groceries over near that area and other chems as needed. Ultimately pretty simple stuff. Would love to do liquid but I wont be there that often.
Anyways to the meat of the question - as far as I can tell the pump has no timer to run it. That seemed like such a standard piece of equipment to me that I am a bit baffled to be honest. My late grandfathers partner certainly wasn't going out every single day and manually running the pump all these years, did the pool maintenance company just allow the pump to run 24/7 or am I blind and missing a timer right in front of my face? I'll attach pictures but I've traced the electric from the pump to all the electric on the wall and do not see anything resembling a timer - mind you there is a black "TORO" box but I think that runs the lights right above it, I haven't cracked it open to look yet though as its taped shut, very slim chance thats a timer running the pool in there but that would be the only place, I'll investigate further later this week when I have time. Pool is currently closed down still from winter.
With no timer is my only option to just leave the pump running 24/7 for the next 5 months? A bit of a rhetorical question I suppose because if there is truly no timer it would make sense to just pay the money to have one installed(I don't want to spend more than I have to since we have a time limit in which we now have to sell the house, but of course it would be nice for the next owner to have it set up properly - I'd love to redo the whole area if I could its a bit dated), I'm just baffled and wonder if that's how its been running this whole time.
Anyways any input would be appreciated!
