Last weekend I had to open the pump and clean it out of all the pine needles. They were wrapped around the motor like a string on a vacuum! After cleaning it, it purred like a kitten! The circulation was better than I'd ever seen it and the new filter gauge was actually working! Everything was working like a champ! Then today, the psi had risen to 10 (due to all the unbelievable amount of pollen coming from the pine trees almost directly over my pool!) so this evening I backwashed. Now, the pump basket is only half full of water, the filter gauge is back to reading "0" and there is very little, if any, circulation in the pool! Only 1 of the returns is actually "returning". I backwashed a couple of weeks ago just to get all the construction junk out and did not have this problem. What the heck has happened??
Thanks for your help!
Karen
Thanks for your help!
Karen