I’m having such a tough time with my mother-in-law’s pool. I believe that the pump is not circulating as well as it could. As you can see in the pic, whoever piped in this equipment was either really cheap, lazy, or just didn’t know any better. Everything is 2 inch pipe after the filter. Everything before the filter is 1.5 inches.
I was hoping that by cutting the two suction pipes below the elbows, turning the pump 90 degrees, and piping to the filter (with 2 inch lines), it would reduce some of the head, giving me a bit better flow. Is this worth the effort/cost? Crappy sketch of what I'm talking about is in the link.
As it stands right now, the vacuum gauge reads about 7.5-8, and the pressure gauge reads about 13.
This pool gets algae unbelievably fast. It burns through chlorine like nobody’s business . I recently installed the chlorinator (in pic) and it seems to help a bit but I don’t think it is getting enough flow through it. I would like to turn on the main drain only when clearing up the pool but when I do, the vacuum jumps up to about 15 and begins cavitating. It's an 8-foot kidney shaped pool.
This is a pool I can only get to maybe once a week, but usually ends up being around every ten days or so. I would really like to fix this on the cheap. I could get a new filter body bottom that has 2 inch inlets and a new pump housing but that is really out of my budget right now.
Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/do85y
What should I do TFP?
I was hoping that by cutting the two suction pipes below the elbows, turning the pump 90 degrees, and piping to the filter (with 2 inch lines), it would reduce some of the head, giving me a bit better flow. Is this worth the effort/cost? Crappy sketch of what I'm talking about is in the link.
As it stands right now, the vacuum gauge reads about 7.5-8, and the pressure gauge reads about 13.
This pool gets algae unbelievably fast. It burns through chlorine like nobody’s business . I recently installed the chlorinator (in pic) and it seems to help a bit but I don’t think it is getting enough flow through it. I would like to turn on the main drain only when clearing up the pool but when I do, the vacuum jumps up to about 15 and begins cavitating. It's an 8-foot kidney shaped pool.
This is a pool I can only get to maybe once a week, but usually ends up being around every ten days or so. I would really like to fix this on the cheap. I could get a new filter body bottom that has 2 inch inlets and a new pump housing but that is really out of my budget right now.
Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/do85y
What should I do TFP?