Jim, that is not his house. It is a pool at a school. See…Do you have a nearby hose bib on your house that has a pipe that has been attached with a pipe leading into the ground?
Thanks,
Jim R.
Hi!Ig,
The little grid on the left is an overflow port..
The item on the right under the cover may be an autofill, but if it is, it is missing the guts that make it work.
Do you have a nearby hose bib on your house that has a pipe that has been attached with a pipe leading into the ground?
Thanks,
Jim R.
Tall narrow pipe leads to the pool. I have actually tried to clean it with garden hose jet from pool-side and that's how that cavity got filled.You are missing any valve for those open pipes to be an auto fill.
If you put a shopvac on each pipe and blow air into it and see where bubbles come out in the pool or equipment pad.
Hopefully, the OP's overflow pipe is removable, or a float valve assembly won't be able to be screwed in. But, if that wall overflow is functional, can't really see a need for the one in the can. Edit to add: Now that I look closer at the example you posted, how the heck did they screw that in without hitting the wall??Here is what the autofill should look like with the Fluidmaster valve installed.
The top hole in the photo is the equalization line that goes to the pool. The bottom hole, or standpipe, is the overflow. The outlet comes out on the wall of the pool.
Now that I look closer at the example you posted, how the heck did they screw that in without hitting the wall??
Oh, OK. Didn't know it disassembled from the top. But, I did just check my spare Fluidmaster, and seems you can also slide up a plastic compression ring at the base of top half and then pull up, and the whole float assembly half of unit comes off, leaving only the base stem threaded into the can.Watch the video in post #7.