Hi everyone!
Im a complete newbie in regards of pool maintenance. This is my first pool and I'm still learning a lot thanks to this forum. I'm having a hard time trying to identify all the parts/valves from my whole pool and pump system. Today I tried to manually vacuum my pool and couldn't do it because the suction pressure was too much that I could push or pull the vacuum. In order to start playing with the valves and reducing the pressure, I need to understand and find out the parts in my pool and pump system. My 2 main goals that I would appreciate any help towards are: I need to drain some water in order to put new water (CYA too high) and I need to be able to manually vacuum my pool (with hose and vacuum head).
Since I can't upload all of the images here, I'm linking an imgur album with all of the photos that I took today. I have labeled the photos and also labeled the parts. As you can read in the image description in imgur, I have tried to label/identify some of the parts. I need help labeling all of the unknown parts (returns, drain, check valve, filters, etc...)
The whole pump and valves didn't came labeled, so before I start opening/closing valves, I want to know which valve correspond to what before I mess things up big time.
This is the link to the imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/0gBx4nA
Details about the pool: ~5800 gallons, plaster
Any help will be very much appreciated! Thanks for taking the time to help this newbie.
Erick
Im a complete newbie in regards of pool maintenance. This is my first pool and I'm still learning a lot thanks to this forum. I'm having a hard time trying to identify all the parts/valves from my whole pool and pump system. Today I tried to manually vacuum my pool and couldn't do it because the suction pressure was too much that I could push or pull the vacuum. In order to start playing with the valves and reducing the pressure, I need to understand and find out the parts in my pool and pump system. My 2 main goals that I would appreciate any help towards are: I need to drain some water in order to put new water (CYA too high) and I need to be able to manually vacuum my pool (with hose and vacuum head).
Since I can't upload all of the images here, I'm linking an imgur album with all of the photos that I took today. I have labeled the photos and also labeled the parts. As you can read in the image description in imgur, I have tried to label/identify some of the parts. I need help labeling all of the unknown parts (returns, drain, check valve, filters, etc...)
The whole pump and valves didn't came labeled, so before I start opening/closing valves, I want to know which valve correspond to what before I mess things up big time.
This is the link to the imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/0gBx4nA
Details about the pool: ~5800 gallons, plaster
Any help will be very much appreciated! Thanks for taking the time to help this newbie.
Erick
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