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There should be a drain plug at the bottom of your filter. What is your process for blowing out your lines? For our pool our return jets are pretty low near the floor. We installed a jandy valve that allows us to airlock the returns. My process is set the multi-port to circulate, drain...

So I'm planning to open our pool in the next few weeks. This will be our third season after buying the house in 2019. This opening makes me the most nervous as this will be the first time opening the pool after having closed the pool myself last winter for the first time. Previous two season...

Pictures and a some more info would help us be of better assistance. The more details you can provide the better like inground/above ground, filter, heater (if you have one), SWG, dimensions of the pool, volume, depth, general plumbing info, electrical info, etc. I feel your pain and sense of...

I'm a little hesitant to remove the pump, I would need to undo the electrical connections as well since it's direct wired. I know people around here who just put antifreeze in the pump, I'm guessing they just put the plugs back in the pump and pour in some antifreeze. Currently the pump is...

Yep that’s how was wishing I had done it. I think was too much in a hurry to get it off. My future self didn’t appreciate that. Only other question I have is I hear some people put antifreeze in the pump, but, wouldn’t you need to re-plug the pump so the antifreeze stays in the pump? Right now...

Got it to work it works it just took a little time to put enough air in my system to start pushing water out. Got everything blown out and plugged or water-locked. Winter cover is on and water bags placed. Thank you for the reply confirming I was on the right track. I kept a log of every step...

Won’t the filter setting blow air through the sand?

Here are a couple pictures of my equipment pad. I realized I had the filter set to waste, hoping that was all it was that I was sending the air to the waste line. I changed it to recirculate, tried again but still no dice. I don't feel air leaking. This is my air compressor...

I’m attempting to blow out my pool lines and I’m not having any luck. I have an I in-ground pool with 1 skinner, 2 return jets, and one main drain. I have the sand filter set to recirculate. I have a pancake compressor with a 6 gallon tank that charges up to 150 psi. I opened the two drain...

Which cover pump do you use? I use a simple Baracuda pump but it's only running when it's plugged in and has power, but have thought about replacing it with one that has an auto on/off so I wouldn't have to keep my eye on it so it doesn't run dry.

Past two seasons we hired a pool guy to close our pool, this season we are going to close it ourselves, and I have mostly everything I need. My one question involves blowing out the lines. We have a Pentair SuperFlo VS pool pump. What fitting should I look for to plug in my air compressor to...

We recently replaced our old pump with the Pentair SuperFlo VS. I will say it was definitely worth it. It replaced an old 3/4HP single speed pump that last season we ran 24/7. We have our SuperFlo wired for 230 but it can be wired fore either 115 or 230. It has an onboard 24 hour clock and...

I would be willing to bet he’s got inventory he’d like to unload. If it’s lack of understanding on his part, he might not be the right PB for you. We just recently purchased a variable speed pump to replace our relic of a pump. It was a single speed. I’m beyond impressed with how much more...

We're trying to get this wrapped up before the 19th when we go on vacation for a week, and have someone house sitting, I'm hoping not to have our friend have to worry about hassling with the old pump till we get back. I did find a Siemens style breaker so if we get that we might end up swapping...

So, I have a new Pentair SuperFlo VS pump. We were originally going to wire it to our existing 115v power that the old pump was hooked to. After some research though we decided instead to run a brand new 230 line from our main box to the pump's location. The manual recomends/suggests a...

I have a new pump ordered and hopefully it'll be here soon. I bought a Pentair SuperFlo VS 1 1/2HP thanks to the advice in my other post. I also ordered a flowmeter to help dial in the RPM's needed to stay within my Sand filter's Max flow rate of 60GPM. We are also going to update al the...

The two speeds on your motor are listed in RPM values. top right 3450 or 1725

Still learning myself and from my experience, you want most of your water pulled through the skimmer line as it's a large part of circulating the water. If you were to have both open 100% your skimmer suction would be weak and that's your first line of defense against floating debris. I have...

That makes a lot of sense to me. Initially I was thinking I had to match the motor/pump specs as closely as possible. Because in my uninformed thinking higher HP=faster flow=overwhelming my sand filter. And I had visions of sand blowing out my return jets and killing my sand filter. Doesn't...

We have a sand filter as well, and I'm assuming you've done this but wanted to point out the air release valve near the multi-port valve (not the same as the drain plug on the bottom). When you first run the system you want to have that valve open till you get a steady stream of water coming...

I ended up switching to mostly skimmer. With them both open my skimmer suction was a bit weak. I switched it to 100% skimmer and 0% drain (had to do some testing as the guy who upgraded the valves didn't label which was the drain and which was the skimmer lol). Then slightly opened the drain...

Good customer support is worth a lot these days. Of the two brands I am leaning towards Pentair. This thread has put my mind at ease a little as far a s self installing. Even with a professional install the warranties aren't long and from what I can tell are a bit limited. I had also emailed...

Thank you for the information. My wife's Dad who is an excellent plumber and electrician though he's not an officially licensed one. I'd be confident in his help installing a pump. If I do go for the variable speed pump I'm weighing the pros and cons to the warranty being void for self...

Ok this may be a dumb question, but I want to make sure I'm doing things in the proper order. Last season (our first summer) we had the pool opened for us. This year with our pool renovation I'm doing the opening myself. We had swim ready pool water trucked in to fill our inground gunite...

Best to stay on the safe side. When that thing would fail it would not only be a water mess, it would be dangerous for anyone inside it. That could be an ER visit waiting to happen. You could always get a small inflatable pool to tide the kids over for this season. We put up a decent sized...

A few issues with variable speed pumps for us. Most of them are $1,000 plus which not really in our price range at this time. Another issue is most seem to be for hard wired 230V wiring. We only have 115V wiring available in our pump's location. Another concern I have is our current pump...

Ok, so we had our pool renovated and they finished it last Thursday. We had all new coping stones installed, and all new wall tiles. It's a Gunite Pool, that holds 24,000 Gallons. Friday we had swim ready pool water trucked in. So it was anti-climatic going from excitement of having our pool...