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Guess it's my turn... Been breaking up ice all day and trying to get some of the snow out from around the pool, as the concrete helped heat up the water some. Might have been for naught, and now I'm exhausted. I caught one of the skimmers weirs getting stuck after the sun went down, so I pulled...

This is EXACTLY the issue; and like you said, if they contract it out, it'll suck because the contracting company doesn't actually "understand" what they're building. Like a good person, I sent my nag email as well, but I wasn't near as nice as you might have been. Quite frankly, all MacOS...

Just to finish out this thread on a high note, I was able to convince my pool builder to swap me down to a 1 HP blower. We spent some time in the spa last night and it's a night and day difference. The jets are actually comfortable to sit in front of, and we can actually hold a conversation with...

No worries... looks like I've talked my PB into doing this work for me. :cool:

Could you post a pic?

So I tried an experiment last night, switched out the return eyeballs in the spa to 1/2 inch (from 3/4 inch) and the jets behaved like I would have expected them to behave, they actually "jetted" instead of spitting out copious amounts of air and splashing water everywhere... then the blower...

Let me bump it to 3200 RPM and try again... we have essentially the same pump... I even bumped it to the max speed for that pump and no air jet. I'm warming up the spa now, I'll have a peek at the jets while we're in there later.

I just did an experiment where I took the blower off, had the pump running at about 2600 RPM, and tried blowing into the air tube. After exhausting my breath, I actually felt back pressure from the pipe. My wife was watching the spa (there's about 70 feet between the equipment pad and the spa)...

Edited my signature to include the blower... It's a 2 HP Air Supply Silencer and it's sitting on 2" pipe. I actually contacted Air Supply and they recommended drilling holes as well, but after reading the various threads about using a T and putting a ball-valve on the end, I think that's a more...

I'm in a very similar situation to several other TFPers: new pool & spa, spa doesn't jet, and blower causes water to splash out of the spa. I've read several threads here on TFP that indicate that we may have a blower that is too big (mine is 2 HP for 5 jets, pretty sure it's too big). I'm...