I made another post about my pool that wasalmost clean and now swampy again: from almost clean back to green... frustrated mom of 4
This is my pump question...
Pump was pretty much redone a few months ago (including new sand). since then I would turn on, it would work for 1h and stop. I could not get prior pool person back (using a home warranty and they stopped working with the guy). Got a new person last month, who told me I needed a new "cascade and pieces" because pool was loosing vaccum. He supposedly went to look for pieces and did not call back for 3 weeks. I called insurance again, and they finally sent the original pool person. He spend less than 10 min out there and said there was nothing wrong with pump. He said pool was swampy black and it just would need to be backwashed every hr or so until the pool cleared.
I thought it was BS but decided to try. Started on Saturday and indeed I did have to backwash every few hrs. Until about Monday when I really backwashed daily only just to be safe, but pump was working strong throughout.
Pass forward to last Wednesday night when pool was almost clear, I decided to flocc, leave 18hrs with pump off (following directions in product) and got the swamp back with tons of large green flocs in the surface of the pool. I turned the pump back on Last afternoon (after trying to vaccum floc with my robot and making things worse). Since then I read this site and started the "slam" process.
Problem is that pool is back to circulating problems. Is it possible is the same issue as before? I ask because I backwash 1 time, and flow is still low. If I backwash a second or third time, it gets strong, but will still loose strength and circulate super little or nothing within a couple hrs.
Did pump break or do I need to go back to backwashing multiple times a day (hard on a week day as I work)? keeping in mind there was no debri on pool... only the flocs...
Is it something wrong to pump???
This is my pump question...
Pump was pretty much redone a few months ago (including new sand). since then I would turn on, it would work for 1h and stop. I could not get prior pool person back (using a home warranty and they stopped working with the guy). Got a new person last month, who told me I needed a new "cascade and pieces" because pool was loosing vaccum. He supposedly went to look for pieces and did not call back for 3 weeks. I called insurance again, and they finally sent the original pool person. He spend less than 10 min out there and said there was nothing wrong with pump. He said pool was swampy black and it just would need to be backwashed every hr or so until the pool cleared.
I thought it was BS but decided to try. Started on Saturday and indeed I did have to backwash every few hrs. Until about Monday when I really backwashed daily only just to be safe, but pump was working strong throughout.
Pass forward to last Wednesday night when pool was almost clear, I decided to flocc, leave 18hrs with pump off (following directions in product) and got the swamp back with tons of large green flocs in the surface of the pool. I turned the pump back on Last afternoon (after trying to vaccum floc with my robot and making things worse). Since then I read this site and started the "slam" process.
Problem is that pool is back to circulating problems. Is it possible is the same issue as before? I ask because I backwash 1 time, and flow is still low. If I backwash a second or third time, it gets strong, but will still loose strength and circulate super little or nothing within a couple hrs.
Did pump break or do I need to go back to backwashing multiple times a day (hard on a week day as I work)? keeping in mind there was no debri on pool... only the flocs...
Is it something wrong to pump???
