Really appreciate TFP and have found advice about water chemistry invaluable. I’m happy to be our family’s “pool guy” but the learning curve is steep (moved into this house with a pool 9 months ago).
Thanks for any help you can offer for my latest problem: huge wind storm last night covered pool with leaves, pine needles and debris. I manually removed as much as I could and then started the process of having the kreepy krawly and skimmer clean up. I was emptying the skimmer basket and pump basket c. every 15 minutes for a few hours. Always primed the pump by putting a bit of water in the skimmer basket.
After a gazillion rounds of this, suddenly there is no pressure at the wall or skimmer. Pump basket seems to get half full of water. Pressure gauge goes down to zero in spurts and I can hear/see the water coming into the pump basket in spurts too. Thinking there was air in the line I tried to bleed it. Weak water comes out in spurts and never reaches full pressure (usually when I bleed there is hissing and then a blast of water; this is like turning a faucet on and off). After bleeding like this for 15 minute I stopped and when I took off the pump basket cover a ton of water came out (like it had been backed up).
Things I have tried: moving the Jandy valve to different positions to see if there was a clog/I could dislodge it. Even if I put it 100% to the skimmer (or the wall) I get no suction. I removed the pump basket and felt around the impeller to see if there was a clog. There isn’t.
Thoughts or suggestions? Many thanks!
Thanks for any help you can offer for my latest problem: huge wind storm last night covered pool with leaves, pine needles and debris. I manually removed as much as I could and then started the process of having the kreepy krawly and skimmer clean up. I was emptying the skimmer basket and pump basket c. every 15 minutes for a few hours. Always primed the pump by putting a bit of water in the skimmer basket.
After a gazillion rounds of this, suddenly there is no pressure at the wall or skimmer. Pump basket seems to get half full of water. Pressure gauge goes down to zero in spurts and I can hear/see the water coming into the pump basket in spurts too. Thinking there was air in the line I tried to bleed it. Weak water comes out in spurts and never reaches full pressure (usually when I bleed there is hissing and then a blast of water; this is like turning a faucet on and off). After bleeding like this for 15 minute I stopped and when I took off the pump basket cover a ton of water came out (like it had been backed up).
Things I have tried: moving the Jandy valve to different positions to see if there was a clog/I could dislodge it. Even if I put it 100% to the skimmer (or the wall) I get no suction. I removed the pump basket and felt around the impeller to see if there was a clog. There isn’t.
Thoughts or suggestions? Many thanks!
