I have inground cement pool. It has a Paramount In Floor Cleaning System, with a number of in-floor nozzles that pop-out rotating and blowing air/cleaning, and a dome canister for the 6 Port Water Valve in the grassy area on the deck.
It's my first year, and I want to make sure we close the pool properly. I've read the instructions from Paramount, which frankly leave much to be desired in terms of information and clarity. Can someone answer a few questions for me.
The pop-out nozzles are on the bottom of the pool, but I also have one on each of the steps of the pool and another one that's on a little sitting/ledge area, on the other side of the pool, that's also close to the top of the water line.
I have someone coming to help me close the pool but it's the same people who opened it, and they were clueless regarding the Paramount system on opening, so I want to make sure we close it right.
Per their instructions, I've drained water from the pool, just below the decorative tile line that runs around the perimeter of the pool. I seem to remember that the pop-out nozzle on the top step and on that sitting/ledge area were removed for the winter and I reinserted them when I was opening the pool.
Q1: Do I need to drain the pool below the top step and sitting ledge area? i.e. Do I need to make sure that the highest pop-out nozzles are above the water line?
Q2: Do I need to remove these nozzles (again top step and that sitting ledge shelf)? Why? What's the point?
Q3: I've read Paramount's instructions on closing. As I understand it, we basically have to blow out each of the 6 ports on the water valve one by one--correct? Then do we also blow out the center port which is the water flow IN valve? Do we blow that one out from the water valve towards the pump or from the pump towards the water valve?
Q4: Is that the correct order: blow the 6 OUT ports first, then blow the 1 center IN port?
Q5: Do I need to add antifreeze anywhere to the Paramount canister area?
Anything else I'm missing?
Thanks!
It's my first year, and I want to make sure we close the pool properly. I've read the instructions from Paramount, which frankly leave much to be desired in terms of information and clarity. Can someone answer a few questions for me.
The pop-out nozzles are on the bottom of the pool, but I also have one on each of the steps of the pool and another one that's on a little sitting/ledge area, on the other side of the pool, that's also close to the top of the water line.
I have someone coming to help me close the pool but it's the same people who opened it, and they were clueless regarding the Paramount system on opening, so I want to make sure we close it right.
Per their instructions, I've drained water from the pool, just below the decorative tile line that runs around the perimeter of the pool. I seem to remember that the pop-out nozzle on the top step and on that sitting/ledge area were removed for the winter and I reinserted them when I was opening the pool.
Q1: Do I need to drain the pool below the top step and sitting ledge area? i.e. Do I need to make sure that the highest pop-out nozzles are above the water line?
Q2: Do I need to remove these nozzles (again top step and that sitting ledge shelf)? Why? What's the point?
Q3: I've read Paramount's instructions on closing. As I understand it, we basically have to blow out each of the 6 ports on the water valve one by one--correct? Then do we also blow out the center port which is the water flow IN valve? Do we blow that one out from the water valve towards the pump or from the pump towards the water valve?
Q4: Is that the correct order: blow the 6 OUT ports first, then blow the 1 center IN port?
Q5: Do I need to add antifreeze anywhere to the Paramount canister area?
Anything else I'm missing?
Thanks!