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Casey

Casey

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So I'm in line to close next Sunday on my own. That's the day I'll start blowing my lines. I'm going to drain the pool to right below my return lines. That will leave me an inch or so of water on my tanning ledge. It's dark right now and can't take specific pics of equipment but I feel like I have a pretty firm understanding on what I need to do until I get to the heater. I'll post pics tomorrow of my bypass. I don't think the heater has any plugs and will need blown out. I also don't recall seeing my PB put RV antifreeze in the heater line last year. I believe he did say to be careful blowing the heater line that it didn't need a lot of force (i think). I'm trying to remember. It'll be my first closing so I need to do it right. I have 8 g of RV antifreeze and polyquat 60. My builder did use a gallon of RV antifreeze per line. I have 6 total lines. A main suction line, 4 returns and a slide line. He also put RV antifreeze in the skimmer box. I cleaned up the pool furniture and will be attempting to power wash the deck tomorrow. Im open to any and all advice not to mess this up. 20220924_174038.jpg20220924_174023.jpg20220924_174040.jpg20220924_174101.jpg20220924_174203.jpg20220924_174145.jpg20220924_174107.jpg20220924_174206.jpg20220924_173705.jpg20220924_174023.jpg 20220924_173434.jpg
 
Casey said:
I don't think the heater has any plugs and will need blown out.
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Are you certain? With my Jandy heater, I have to drain the water out first before blowing the lines. There is an inlet and outlet pvc pipe connected to it, and then also a valve at the bottom that drains water. Hope all goes well with the closing. Just did mine today. I only have two return lines (actually one that branches off into two return openings). Power washing a deck is so rewarding. Time consuming but the results are terrific.
 
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anthonypool89 said:
Are you certain? With my Jandy heater, I have to drain the water out first before blowing the lines. There is an inlet and outlet pvc pipe connected to it, and then also a valve at the bottom that drains water. Hope all goes well with the closing. Just did mine today. I only have two return lines (actually one that branches off into two return openings). Power washing a deck is so rewarding. Time consuming but the results are terrific.
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I'm not certain and particularly why I'm posting. I never added a plug back to my heater when I opened. It's pouring down rain right now so I won't be doing anything outside for right now.
 
This is all it says. I don't see a model number. 20220925_125750.jpg20220925_125824.jpg
 
Under "winterizing" in your manual, item 3 refers to a "winterizing drain plug". There should be one. Your heater is probably not all that much different than mine, since mine is also a Jandy. Simply loosening the two (inlet and outlet) pipes (which are left handed threads by the way and so loosen by turning to the right), won't release all the water from the system. Somewhere - on the bottom - there should be a round plug that loosens (to the left) and will allow the water to drain. Mine is on the front of the heater at the bottom on the right side. I don't see anything in your pictures though. Somewhere in your manual there should be info on it.
 
Casey said:
Here's my bypass.
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OK...so you can run the pool with the water not coming into the heater. That's a nice option. Does yours, out of curiosity, have a "chill" featuer whereby it runs in reverse and cools the water? Mine has it but unfortunately has never seemed to work. The water was almost 90 this summe and I would have loved a way to chill it a bit.

If you try to blow the lines and the heater is still full of water, it won't work. No idea how you winterize with that extra plumbing however. I don't have anything like that but rather just the inlet and outlet.
 
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OK...so you can run the pool with the water not coming into the heater. That's a nice option. Does yours, out of curiosity, have a "chill" featuer whereby it runs in reverse and cools the water? Mine has it but unfortunately has never seemed to work. The water was almost 90 this summe and I would have loved a way to chill it a bit.

If you try to blow the lines and the heater is still full of water, it won't work. No idea how you winterize with that extra plumbing however. I don't have anything like that but rather just the inlet and outlet.
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I had my builder build the bypass. He usually doesn't do that. I don't think I have the chiller option. I'll look at my manual to see if I have a drain plug. I did not see my builder take one out last year nor did I add it back when I started the system when I opened.
 

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Casey said:
nor did I add it back when I started the system when I opened.
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It isn't something that actually removes (though you could take it all the way off). It turns just enough to let all the water out and then can be turned shut again - actually have to anyway for blowing out the lines. Once I'm done with the lines, I open the drain valve again and leave it that way over the winter. So it's possible that, assuming you have one, it was turned to the closed position after last year's pool closing.
 
I never saw him mess with the heater. I didn't even use it last year because we closed the pool after install. I don't even think we pushed water through the system. Im trying to remember... ugh... I texted my builder. We'll see if he gets back to me.
 
It looks like this is where the plug is, if your model has it.

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There was another one last year that of the couple models in the manual, one had it and one didn't.

What are you blowing the pipes with ?
 
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anthonypool89 said:
Her one picture shows what looks like a hole between the inlet and outlet pipes but that's probably just for condensate.
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Nice catch (y) so they use the same housing for both models. That's where the drain plug would be if she had one. And water inside the unit can drain from hers instead.

Casey I would detach it like they advise to, so any water can just come out on its own. Blow with the bypass for the rest of it.
 

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