Bought a house, anyone know if this is DE/Cartridge etc?

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Hi All,
So my wife and I just bought a home. It has a pool, and I've only ever maintained a hot tub. So what type of filter is this? Any recommendations on cleaning. The PSI I checked today was 36!! At the inspection it was 26

Thanks all!
 

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Doc,

Welcome to TFP... A great place to find the answers to all of your "impacted" filter questions... :shark:

Since it has no multiport valve I'm going to say it is a cartridge filter...

Your best bet it to pop it open and see... On second thought, your best bet is to buy something from this century... :p

Thanks,

Jim R.
 
The plumbing for that actually looks really good like the plumber had pride in his work. Looks like he left a stub for a heater at some point too.
 
Thanks guys, Well once I have some money since buying the place i'd love to modernize it
So the pump runs, and there's water in the tank, so I think it's primed.

Do I have the valves in the right way? The handle points in direction of water flow I think. Behind the pump there's a T and one from the skimmer and another unlabeled ( assume the intake on bottom of pool) those feed the pump into the filter back to the pool. Now the filter pressure being 36 I assume that is the reason I'm getting no flow into the pool?

The pool jets and skimmer aren't working/ running!
 
Doc,

If you look at your middle pic, the handle of the valve is pointed up toward your Tab Feeder, this shuts off the port going down and into to the already capped off line. So, in the current configuration water is coming through the filter, into the valve and turning up and going into your Tab Feeder on the way back to the pool.

I can't see your other valves, but if you can understand how one valve works, they all are the same...

With a filter pressure of 35 I am not surprised that you don't have a lot of water going back to the pool... Filter pressure is not a good thing.. It is really the amount of effort it takes for the pump to push water through the filter. Less is better. My guess is that when the filter is clean the pressure will drop to 10 or less..

Please take two aspirin and call me in the morning... :p

Jim R.
 
As Jim eluded to, pool valves work differently than most other valves.

On 2-way valves the 'gate is opposite of the way the handle is pointed, so if the valve is inline and the handle is aligned with the piping the valve is closed. In order to open that valve you have to turn the handle perpendicular to (across) the piping.

On 3-way valves the gate is still opposite the handle so whichever port the gate is across is closed. So, in your middle picture, the port with the capped pipe is closed so flow is from the filter to the feeder, as Jim said already. :)
 
Thanks guys! So last night I spent my evening taking apart the filter and cleaning it. I figured out how the valves work mostly. Looking up a diagram and reading over your advice helped immensely. The return is open now. Pressure is at 10psi, down from 26 when i had it inspected

So the feed to the pump, There is water that shoots out of one of the fittings. Now there is air coming out the jets. The pump was primed when I started it (and the pump is below the in-ground pool). When i bled the filter, it sprayed water, but still had air mixed in. Is that correct?

I'm assuming that air is being sucked into the pump through a leaking fitting. So cutoff the fittings and get new pvc?
 
Doc,

It is never good to have either an air leak or a water leak... :p

When you clean a filter, it will have air in it when you initially turn the pump back on. When your open the air relief valve, on top of the filter, air will come out first and then it should turn into a steady stream of water for the most part.

I would fix any leaks that you can identify...

Thanks,

Jim R.
 

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Unless you know for sure that there's a leak before the pump suction fitting, I'd fill the pool up to about 3/4ths the way up the skimmer and I'd remove the pump strainer lid and clean and generously lube the o-ring on it.
 
Bama Rambler said:
Unless you know for sure that there's a leak before the pump suction fitting, I'd fill the pool up to about 3/4ths the way up the skimmer and I'd remove the pump strainer lid and clean and generously lube the o-ring on it.
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Thanks all, So when I turn the pump off, there's a geyser of water that comes out of one of the fittings on the intake side of the pump, after the 3 way valve. So I'm assuming that's my obvious culprit? The pump self primes as it is lower than the pool, but I don't think it should leak!

Will fill the pool up 3/4 the way tomorrow

Thanks!
 
PoolGate said:
The plumbing for that actually looks really good like the plumber had pride in his work. Looks like he left a stub for a heater at some point too.
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Or it had a heater at one time that was removed.
 
ToothDoc said:
Thanks all, So when I turn the pump off, there's a geyser of water that comes out of one of the fittings on the intake side of the pump, after the 3 way valve. So I'm assuming that's my obvious culprit? The pump self primes as it is lower than the pool, but I don't think it should leak!

Will fill the pool up 3/4 the way tomorrow

Thanks!
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If you're seeing water come out of a fitting then you definitely have a leak. The good news is, you don't have to search for it, you know where it is.
 
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