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So I bought a house a few years ago with a pool, and I'm pretty familiar with pool maintenance as I grew up with one, however I'm a bit stumped with the plumbing scenario for this new pool. I have attached a picture to this post of my equipment pad. I recently re-plumbed the broken pipe and replaced the multi-port valve, with the intent to eventually add a dedicated booster pump for a pressure side cleaner. The picture below is before I did the re-plumb work.
I'm a bit stuck because the pipe I thought was dedicated for the cleaner line doesn't seem to operate the way I thought. I currently have the pipe labeled "Cleaner?" not connected to anything, and put an elbow in replacing valve connecting the main return to the upstream valve. What happens now is when I have the valve on the right turned to "main drain" the pump never get's prime, and I can see/hear air getting sucked into the "cleaner" line. If I block the cleaner line with my hand temporarily (or obviously if I were to cap it) the pump will prime and everything works fine. I don't understand how or why the line labeled cleaner would be connected to the main drain.
I also don't understand what the 1.5" pipe is that is between the main drain and blower for the jets. I'm thinking of digging all the dirt out to see if that helps me identify everything, but figured I should post here first.
So I bought a house a few years ago with a pool, and I'm pretty familiar with pool maintenance as I grew up with one, however I'm a bit stumped with the plumbing scenario for this new pool. I have attached a picture to this post of my equipment pad. I recently re-plumbed the broken pipe and replaced the multi-port valve, with the intent to eventually add a dedicated booster pump for a pressure side cleaner. The picture below is before I did the re-plumb work.
I'm a bit stuck because the pipe I thought was dedicated for the cleaner line doesn't seem to operate the way I thought. I currently have the pipe labeled "Cleaner?" not connected to anything, and put an elbow in replacing valve connecting the main return to the upstream valve. What happens now is when I have the valve on the right turned to "main drain" the pump never get's prime, and I can see/hear air getting sucked into the "cleaner" line. If I block the cleaner line with my hand temporarily (or obviously if I were to cap it) the pump will prime and everything works fine. I don't understand how or why the line labeled cleaner would be connected to the main drain.
I also don't understand what the 1.5" pipe is that is between the main drain and blower for the jets. I'm thinking of digging all the dirt out to see if that helps me identify everything, but figured I should post here first.
