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Thank you for your feedback. I agree with everything you wrote and hope to implement your suggestions at some point. Time, experience, and access to a plumber are my current obstacles. 1. I would have liked to put BFP off the spigot but I didn’t feel up to learning how to solder copper or...

Update: I plumbed the autofill water line today. Took about 10 hours. -I hope it’s ok the pvc has to bend a little since my trench is crooked. -I’ll probably lower the backflow preventer. I didn’t realize that I could count the layers of brick on the house to estimate height above the...

I’ll have a fluidmaster float valve controlling the autofill. I have 12 zones total (13 with autofill). Rachio only goes up to 8 as far as I’m aware. Also worried about compatibility between brands. My controllers and heads are all orbit.

extra layer of control in case the float gets stuck and keeps filling pool, flooding the yard. ability to shut off autofill remotely.

My irrigation guy says he can upgrade my orbit controller to a wifi-enabled version and hook a valve to the autofill line to control it. He mentioned setting the autofill line as the last zone and have it open the valve for an hour. I could also change the schedule or turn it on manually from...

I hand dug near the gas line and fiber optic line crossings and used an 18in gas trencher for the rest. Trench depth varies btwn 8-16 in due to rocks in the soil. Even going slow, trencher had trouble loosening and removing rock in some places. Hard clay otherwise. Took me 7 hrs of work for...

I dug a trench last weekend, but it thunderstormed overnight and it’s too wet/muddy right now to install the waterline. We also had an overnight freeze the last two nights. Hope it dries out enough that I can get to it this weekend. I pumped out as much water as I could. I plan on putting...

From my understanding, based on what others on the forum have posted, If I hooked into irrigation system, it would be after the irrigation system's backflow preventer (prevents backflow to city water line or water supply to house). From there, water from sprinkler heads, possibly contaminated...

Yes, I only need to supply the final run from hose bib to the stub with backflow preventer. Stub is capped and sticking straight up out of the ground. Pool has a separate overflow drain. autofill overflow was capped. I think I will put a backflow preventer on the vertical stub end and run a...

That was my initial idea, but others on the forum mentioned it would likely be against code since lawn chemicals could enter the pool water supply that way. I wouldn’t want to risk that.

I just had a pool built with an autofill and builder left it up to me to find a plumber to hook it up to potable water supply. Unfortunately, called 4-5 area plumbers and no one wants the job, despite explaining it’s just a waterline to a hose bib with a backflow preventer/pressure vacuum...

I didn’t think about lawn chemicals. Thank you for elaborating.

The builder mentioned likely needing something like that but figured irrigation folks would deal with it. Irrigation system already has one. Seems strange they would require a direct waterline from the house/street and backflow preventer rather than allow tie in to irrigation system which...

I can’t tell the actual float design based on the instructions, but it looks like that part is made by fluid master. I couldn’t take any measurements without risking damage to the cantilever coping forms but eyeballing skimmer and overflow drain height—-it looks fine. thank you for your response.

I’m getting a pentair autofill installed with my new build. Water supply will be hooked up during lawn/irrigation system repair at the capped pvc pipe. the arrow in the first pic points to the overflow fitting. Builder stated it won’t be needed since overflow drain is built into the pool (the...

So, 2 days ago I added 5# of CYA and brought CYA level to 30 and pH down to 7.5. I then added 58oz of 31.45% MA, which brought pH down to 7.2 overnight. 24 hrs ago I added 486 fl oz of 7.55% bleach. 10 hours later, FC was 12.5 and CC was 1. The room smelled like Chloramines, but not...

I’m taking over maintenance of my in-laws’ indoor pool. Built in the 1970’s. About 30k gallons. Never been emptied. Initial taylor test kit results: FC 0; pH 8.2; TA 110; CH 150; CYA 0. They added chlorine tabs to skimmer about 3 wks ago. Using pool math app to get amounts of chem...