Opening pool going ok until now (except for the dead rat in the skimmer basket today)...got the pool balanced and am maintaining my shock level....but......
Cleared the green to a milky blue, and today took out the vacuum. the hose had two holes in it last year that we repaired them with gray screw on fittings, but today the hose was sucking air and two times the pump lost prime and the motor started making noises as I ran over to turn it off. Both times after I took the hose out of the skimmer and turned it on again the pump took prime and started sucking normally after blowing bubbles through the returns, and I tried again to fix the hose leaks, sink the hose and resume vacuuming.
Now I have brown flumes of what I hope is just DE with algae blowing back via the returns, suggesting that the rough starts and stops blew a hole in the filter, similar to what happened the last time we found a hole in one of the filter baffles. Or do you think I messed up the motor and the brown flumes aren't DE/algae?
Cleared the green to a milky blue, and today took out the vacuum. the hose had two holes in it last year that we repaired them with gray screw on fittings, but today the hose was sucking air and two times the pump lost prime and the motor started making noises as I ran over to turn it off. Both times after I took the hose out of the skimmer and turned it on again the pump took prime and started sucking normally after blowing bubbles through the returns, and I tried again to fix the hose leaks, sink the hose and resume vacuuming.
Now I have brown flumes of what I hope is just DE with algae blowing back via the returns, suggesting that the rough starts and stops blew a hole in the filter, similar to what happened the last time we found a hole in one of the filter baffles. Or do you think I messed up the motor and the brown flumes aren't DE/algae?