Greetings...
First off let me say that is seemed easier building a custom house than it is meeting with all the pool builders with their various experience/opinions....
Question...currently looking at the following configuration for our pool:
Approximately 25k gallon salt water pool
38' x 18' free form kidney shaped variation
~110' perimeter
Most pool builders are quoting anything from 2", to 2.5" PVC piping with a 2.5HP pump...
One builder (small builder, but could really tell he ran the numbers and provided pretty extensive calculation breakout) is using 3" piping (suction?) with no 90 degree elbows, all with a 1HP hayward tristar pump....
Anyone shed any light on the advantages/disadvantages with the 3" vs 2" / 2.5"?
I should have mentioned in the beginning besides the approximately dimensions/capacity of the pool...it also has an ~20' infinity edge....and besides the 1hp pump for the main pool, and a dedicated 3hp pump for the infinity edge catch basin...
Guessing the pump would be 30ft from the pool...
Know there's lot of other factors but wanted to get a general sense of the better way to go...
Thanks
First off let me say that is seemed easier building a custom house than it is meeting with all the pool builders with their various experience/opinions....
Question...currently looking at the following configuration for our pool:
Approximately 25k gallon salt water pool
38' x 18' free form kidney shaped variation
~110' perimeter
Most pool builders are quoting anything from 2", to 2.5" PVC piping with a 2.5HP pump...
One builder (small builder, but could really tell he ran the numbers and provided pretty extensive calculation breakout) is using 3" piping (suction?) with no 90 degree elbows, all with a 1HP hayward tristar pump....
Anyone shed any light on the advantages/disadvantages with the 3" vs 2" / 2.5"?
I should have mentioned in the beginning besides the approximately dimensions/capacity of the pool...it also has an ~20' infinity edge....and besides the 1hp pump for the main pool, and a dedicated 3hp pump for the infinity edge catch basin...
Guessing the pump would be 30ft from the pool...
Know there's lot of other factors but wanted to get a general sense of the better way to go...
Thanks