I'll try to make brief but I wanna be complete - we have a plastic shell pool (Barrier Reef) that has Hayward return jet. fittings. We recently had some equipoment changes to build a pool house and installed travertin deck. At the time of moving equipment we installed a Hayward VS pump. I was out of town for a week and the construction workers told me I was losing water during the week I was gone (but the weather had been DRY and right at 100 deg). So I marked pool to check for leaks -- lost about 1 1/2 inch in a week (which might be evaporation with the high heat). But at that time I also notice that ONLY when the pump goes to the lower speed there are bubbles coming out of the return. Turn th pump up to speed 3 or 4 -- NO Bubbles.
Today the pool company that helped with moving the equipment came to do a pressure test. We noticed that the entire outer portion of the return fitting was turning on the wall of the pool and the fitting that the eyeball sits in was stuck. Also saw bubbles coming out around the face of the fitting thats up against the pool wall during a pressure test.
We discussed options 1) do nothing until we are sure there is significant water loss / leakage, 2) dig up an area of newly installed travertine to get to the locking ring on the outside of the pool for the fitting (admitedly I don't know exactly what it looks like - the pool guy described a large nut over the fitting), or 3) poor some type of epoxy down in the fitting that "glues" the fitting together so it quits spinning and I assume stops any leakage.
Does any of this make sense ? or does anyone possibly have any suggestions that could avoiding destroying 3 large sections of travertine pool decking??
Today the pool company that helped with moving the equipment came to do a pressure test. We noticed that the entire outer portion of the return fitting was turning on the wall of the pool and the fitting that the eyeball sits in was stuck. Also saw bubbles coming out around the face of the fitting thats up against the pool wall during a pressure test.
We discussed options 1) do nothing until we are sure there is significant water loss / leakage, 2) dig up an area of newly installed travertine to get to the locking ring on the outside of the pool for the fitting (admitedly I don't know exactly what it looks like - the pool guy described a large nut over the fitting), or 3) poor some type of epoxy down in the fitting that "glues" the fitting together so it quits spinning and I assume stops any leakage.
Does any of this make sense ? or does anyone possibly have any suggestions that could avoiding destroying 3 large sections of travertine pool decking??
