Hello Everyone,
I have a problem - water is leaking to the backwash line in a filter mode. I noticed it recently since our backwash line comes out in front of the house, from the lawn. I guess salt water running through part of our lawn is not a great idea, but that's how previous owners designed it (better than a flexible hose
). I turned off auto-refill and after running filters at full speed for 6 hours I lost ~ 1 inch of water
I read online that most likely there is a bad gasket or o-ring on the valve, but I have no idea which valve in our set-up we're talking about. We have 8 multiport valves and 1 push-pull valve. It looks like push-pull valves do not have gaskets, just an o-ring while multiport valves have both: gaskets + o-rings. While back-washing I only used push-pull valve – never touched anything else (now I’m wondering if I was doing it wrong…)
Below are photos. Out of 8 Jandy NeverLube valves, 5 of them have Actuators.
I visually inspected all our multiport valves, and only one looked different, with some sticky goo around it (see close-up photo below)
Also, I don't know which pipe leads to our front lawn - our backwash line. It looks like a pretty complex set-up to me with many pipes entering the ground...
I wanted to figure out how everything works as soon as we bought this house, so I called Leslie’s pool school and scheduled an appointment. I let them know beforehand that we had a complex set-up so they would send a knowledgeable guy, but it did not help. I wasted 1 hour of my life, money and was extremely disappointed at the end. The guy spent 25 minutes on hold with 1-800 Pentair because he couldn't answer my question. I just wanted to know if it was possible to set up 2 speed pump to run on a low speed via our Pentair controller.
I could have dialed 1-800 for free myself; I did not have to pay someone per hour to do that
. Basically, when he left I knew as much as before he came to teach me about our pool. Sorry, I digressed (still mad about this experience)
At the end I am here, asking for help. I learned a lot on this forum about pool chemistry (thank you very much), but never touched mechanical part of our set-up (except cleaning the cell, but it does not count) Should I ask my husband to open our push-pull valve first and see if O-ring needs to be replaced? If this is #1 step, what should we do except putting our controller into a service mode before disassembling that valve?
Thank you very much!
close-up of our push-pull valve
I have a problem - water is leaking to the backwash line in a filter mode. I noticed it recently since our backwash line comes out in front of the house, from the lawn. I guess salt water running through part of our lawn is not a great idea, but that's how previous owners designed it (better than a flexible hose
). I turned off auto-refill and after running filters at full speed for 6 hours I lost ~ 1 inch of waterI read online that most likely there is a bad gasket or o-ring on the valve, but I have no idea which valve in our set-up we're talking about. We have 8 multiport valves and 1 push-pull valve. It looks like push-pull valves do not have gaskets, just an o-ring while multiport valves have both: gaskets + o-rings. While back-washing I only used push-pull valve – never touched anything else (now I’m wondering if I was doing it wrong…)
Below are photos. Out of 8 Jandy NeverLube valves, 5 of them have Actuators.
I visually inspected all our multiport valves, and only one looked different, with some sticky goo around it (see close-up photo below)
Also, I don't know which pipe leads to our front lawn - our backwash line. It looks like a pretty complex set-up to me with many pipes entering the ground...
I wanted to figure out how everything works as soon as we bought this house, so I called Leslie’s pool school and scheduled an appointment. I let them know beforehand that we had a complex set-up so they would send a knowledgeable guy, but it did not help. I wasted 1 hour of my life, money and was extremely disappointed at the end. The guy spent 25 minutes on hold with 1-800 Pentair because he couldn't answer my question. I just wanted to know if it was possible to set up 2 speed pump to run on a low speed via our Pentair controller.
I could have dialed 1-800 for free myself; I did not have to pay someone per hour to do that
. Basically, when he left I knew as much as before he came to teach me about our pool. Sorry, I digressed (still mad about this experience)At the end I am here, asking for help. I learned a lot on this forum about pool chemistry (thank you very much), but never touched mechanical part of our set-up (except cleaning the cell, but it does not count) Should I ask my husband to open our push-pull valve first and see if O-ring needs to be replaced? If this is #1 step, what should we do except putting our controller into a service mode before disassembling that valve?
Thank you very much!
close-up of our push-pull valve
