Hi folks,
I'm new here. I'm also new to pools having moved from a colder climate where we don't really have them (Great Britain).
So this is the situation. It's an outdoor pool serviced weekly by our pool guy. I noticed recently that there was a tide mark on the top row of tiles and also I bit more "flotsam" in the pool little bits of debris nothing serious. I checked insider the chamber on the where the strainer basket is located and noticed there was no water movement so guessed that there was probably a blockage or something.
I went around to the pump and it was humming in the usual way and I looked inside the glass inspection window and it was dry, much to my surprise. The waterfall was operating normally so I assumed, probably wrongly, that if the waterfall was working there was water throughput in the pump. So anyway I shut off the pump at the breaker.
I was told by somebody that the waterfall would stop whenever there had been a pump problem and that the pump screeched when it had blown in the past. I also took reassurance from the fact that a pool guy attends weekly and would have hoped he would bring any issues to my attention. It is a relatively new pump I should mention.
My my question is, obviously I was given bad information and in seeing the waterfall operating I assumed pump was all okay, so what is the likely scenario here? There is only one pump by the way.
Thanks in advance!
I'm new here. I'm also new to pools having moved from a colder climate where we don't really have them (Great Britain).
So this is the situation. It's an outdoor pool serviced weekly by our pool guy. I noticed recently that there was a tide mark on the top row of tiles and also I bit more "flotsam" in the pool little bits of debris nothing serious. I checked insider the chamber on the where the strainer basket is located and noticed there was no water movement so guessed that there was probably a blockage or something.
I went around to the pump and it was humming in the usual way and I looked inside the glass inspection window and it was dry, much to my surprise. The waterfall was operating normally so I assumed, probably wrongly, that if the waterfall was working there was water throughput in the pump. So anyway I shut off the pump at the breaker.
I was told by somebody that the waterfall would stop whenever there had been a pump problem and that the pump screeched when it had blown in the past. I also took reassurance from the fact that a pool guy attends weekly and would have hoped he would bring any issues to my attention. It is a relatively new pump I should mention.
My my question is, obviously I was given bad information and in seeing the waterfall operating I assumed pump was all okay, so what is the likely scenario here? There is only one pump by the way.
Thanks in advance!