When we bought this house a few years ago, we knew the pump was older and may need to be replaced at some point.
While it probably hasn't been operating at optimal performance, it's still pushed out enough water through the jets to circulate water through the filter.
This Spring we've had crazy amounts of debris falling from the trees (not sure what they're called but look like little green worms). It has constantly filled my skimmer basket the last month or so and I've had to empty it regularly.
I noticed the other day a big slow down in pressure coming out of the jets. So slow in fact that the water looks almost still, whereas normally the water has movement to it.
I thought it might be that the debris from the trees has clogged the filter so I hired a pool company today to come out and completely clean the filter. That definitely increased the pressure a little bit, but the pool is still much calmer that it normally is with the jets on.
It made me think a jet was clogged but the pool guy seemed to think it was the pump. After cleaning the filter, the psi above the DE filter reads as almost 0 PSI.
As far as I can tell nothing is clogged. Skimmer is clear. Pump basket is clear.
Pump is a Century Centurion, Serial 10421CH. It's a 1.65 HP.
Does this sound like a pump problem or could it be that something else is clogged?
Thanks so much!
Chris
While it probably hasn't been operating at optimal performance, it's still pushed out enough water through the jets to circulate water through the filter.
This Spring we've had crazy amounts of debris falling from the trees (not sure what they're called but look like little green worms). It has constantly filled my skimmer basket the last month or so and I've had to empty it regularly.
I noticed the other day a big slow down in pressure coming out of the jets. So slow in fact that the water looks almost still, whereas normally the water has movement to it.
I thought it might be that the debris from the trees has clogged the filter so I hired a pool company today to come out and completely clean the filter. That definitely increased the pressure a little bit, but the pool is still much calmer that it normally is with the jets on.
It made me think a jet was clogged but the pool guy seemed to think it was the pump. After cleaning the filter, the psi above the DE filter reads as almost 0 PSI.
As far as I can tell nothing is clogged. Skimmer is clear. Pump basket is clear.
Pump is a Century Centurion, Serial 10421CH. It's a 1.65 HP.
Does this sound like a pump problem or could it be that something else is clogged?
Thanks so much!
Chris
