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Thanks. I just ordered. For the price it's worth a shot even though I will need to modify it to work with our returns (push in vs screw in).

Nevermind, I now see your subsequent post. No doubt when we first turn on the pool, the water in the plumbing is much cooler.

What does switching the pump to run at night do? Does it do anything without the solar cooler?

Can you share what fountain you have?

I've used the stone tech. It's ok. But you need to get to your stains quickly. It's better for maintenance than stains.

So to clarify, when I bypass the spa, the psi drops. Which seems logical. My question was more of is a 10psi increase normal when I move the valve to the position pictured (which I believe to be a 50/50 diversion). It may have always been like this before the refinish and I just never noticed...

Here's the valve at the heater.

Yes, pump at full speed specifically when in spa mode. Valve at 50/50. While I'm not sure that the heater was the cause for higher pressure before the refinish, normal pressure for me was around 12-15psi. Now normal psi is closer to 25. I only noticed the drop when bypassing the heater as I...

My logic, perhaps flawed, is whatever is going on here is also contributing to my lack of performance with my spa jets and Venturi air intakes. When the pressure infrequently drops a bit, I see better performance from both. But I can't pinpoint the cause.

I have cleaned the cartridges multiple times, both before and after the refinish. But the extent of my cleaning has been hosing them clean with a high pressure fine nozzle. I have not used any cleaning agents or other chemicals/methods. They were filthy every time tho. I know my heater was off...

I wish I knew about this before we bought our heat pump. I'm pretty sure we don't have that feature on our Hayward SUM8TA.

****. I'm at 93 constantly. What I would do for 83-85 degree water temps.

Re: COMPLETE - South Florida Pool & Outdoor Living It was on 2500 but we had everything else shut off. It was only for a minute for the kids, but it had some serious power.

Re: COMPLETE - South Florida Pool & Outdoor Living Hey Will. They are 9'. They just look bigger because I have it tilted in the photo. We have 2 umbrella sleeves offset in our shelf so 2 of them give us max coverage.

Thanks, Jim.

Hi TFP. I'm still break(ing) in my new equipment and I've struggled with high pressure (25-30psi) in our plumbing system. Specifically, since our replaster. I've noticed that when I bypass our heat pump, the pressure drops to 15-20psi. Does that seem normal? And what would be causing that?

Use tapatalk. You can add photos directly from your phone without needing a 3rd party site.

Here is a fun shot of "old faithful mode" from yesterday.

Thanks, Kim. I'll read up on that method of cleaning the cartridges. As for the fountain, the challenge is I need something that doesn't screw into the return. But if that is a pop-in, that's a good alternative. I'm also debating making my own adapters out of new returns and pvc. I probably...

Hi all! I hope everyone is having a great summer and enjoyed the 4th. From the looks of it, you did. It's been just about a month since my last post, we've been in "enjoy" mode with the pool here with our hot summer. Getting great use of the pool, mostly on the weekends. But it is still nice to...

Also I have found my screenlogic schedules acting up from time to time where the pool pump turns on/off outside of schedule. I've noticed it has some correlation to when I am connecting local vs remote but haven't been able to pinpoint it. Usually deleting and resetting the schedules get...

Wow. That bling! Is that mostly the shells or is it also the glass beads? I'm also surprised at how dark the finish came out. Were you expecting that shade?

Yes it redirects water to pool returns and back through main drain without going to the spa. The pressure doesn't change when adjusting that valve.

I'm not sure about the thinset used for the spa as I wasn't home when it got done. But when we refinished the pool, the marker tile got redone using white which is what I would recommend. As for grout, we used a medium grey. It looks really nice dry but in hindsight I wish we went with a...

Yes it drops to zero when off. You may recall that our pool is plumbed for the spa spillover to be on at all times (not our preference). So perhaps that is why the recommendation was to keep the speed high. Not sure. On that point, we also used the spa bypass valve yesterday to turn off the...

Yes. Same pump speed. We are on 3,000 rpm at all times as we are still just outside of startup.

New pics?

The flow is fine. Maybe less pressure than normal but not significantly different. I'm still pulling a bunch of plaster rocks out of my pump basket so I'm concerned I may have some bigger obstruction. I just had my filter cleaned a few days ago. Could anything get stuck in the filter to...

Anyone know what would cause my pressure to jump from 12 to 30psi in a matter of minutes with no noticeable changes?

FYI I tested a small area first and it bleached the dark grey grout. Looks like I won't be using this product.