Hi Doctors of fluidology and everything wet....
I'm here in Nicaragua building a fairly large pool with an attached spa. The spa would overflow into the pool. I would like to put in one spa drain with a 2 1/2" sump port. I would quickly upsize the 2 1/2" PVC pipe to 3" PVC pipe as it goes directly back to the pump. This line would be valved. Most of the spa drain sumps are 1 1/2" and 2" Do they make any with 2 1/2" ports?
Location of spa drain: It looks like most if not all of the spa drain covers stick up at least 1 1/2" from the floor. That's got to be hard on toes and feet in the spa. What if I were to locate the drain in a corner of the spa or on the wall near the floor as some spa drains say that they can be installed that way. Is there any disadvantage in putting a spa drain on the wall, near the floor, besides, according to spec. sheets, that the flow rate is reduced. It looks like most of spa drains that I have been looking at show a flow rate of around a 100 GPM @ 2.72/sec.
Any suggestions anyone? This is all new to me and definitely not my area of expertise but away we go.....
I'm here in Nicaragua building a fairly large pool with an attached spa. The spa would overflow into the pool. I would like to put in one spa drain with a 2 1/2" sump port. I would quickly upsize the 2 1/2" PVC pipe to 3" PVC pipe as it goes directly back to the pump. This line would be valved. Most of the spa drain sumps are 1 1/2" and 2" Do they make any with 2 1/2" ports?
Location of spa drain: It looks like most if not all of the spa drain covers stick up at least 1 1/2" from the floor. That's got to be hard on toes and feet in the spa. What if I were to locate the drain in a corner of the spa or on the wall near the floor as some spa drains say that they can be installed that way. Is there any disadvantage in putting a spa drain on the wall, near the floor, besides, according to spec. sheets, that the flow rate is reduced. It looks like most of spa drains that I have been looking at show a flow rate of around a 100 GPM @ 2.72/sec.
Any suggestions anyone? This is all new to me and definitely not my area of expertise but away we go.....
