Just completed rough in for new pool

[FrederickMD]

Wanted to get your input as I have never worked with plumbing like this. Any issue with the shown layout? 2 returns on left and 4 to pump (2 skimmers, vacuum port, and main drain). Put some stuff vertically like sacrificial anode, turbo (electrolytic) cell, then flow switch. All this is about 13’ from nearest pool wall and I used 1.5” schedule 40 piping.
Thanks for your input!

 

[ajw22]

Well since you asked, I would not have used ball valves. They will begin sticking in a few years and start requiring replacemnt. Diverter valves can be rebuilt and last forever. At least it looks like you left enough room on the pipesw coming out of the ground to cut the valves off and have a good stub to rebuild onto.

 

[FrederickMD]

Thanks! This is the kind of advice I am looking for as nothing has been glued together yet. Btw If glued, I would have used a heat gun to disconnect instead of cutting.

 

[ajw22]

You should have said it was not glued. Now I can tell you more.

This all 2" or 1 1/2" pipe ont he equipment? What size pipe in the ground?

Best to make all your manifolds out of 2" and drop into 1.5 for the returns at the manifold easily by going 2" to outside of valve and 1.5" to inside no bushings needed they are made that way.

@jimmythegreek you like this design?

 

[FrederickMD]

1.5" in ground and for valves. They’re 2” for everything else. Have two 2" to 1.5" reducers, right after the pump. second one is in front of filter after going through all the pipe add ins, right before the valves. Here’s another pic circling the reducers.

 

[jimmythegreek]

My 2 cents....The pad is tiny. Much better to pour a nice concrete pad that is oversized and have room. A few bags in a wheelbarrow mix is plenty strong for this. Agree with Allen those ball valves are gonna haunt you later. You need to just worry about stubs right now not the whole system. Remove everything after the pipe coming up from trench for now. Take all 6 pipes and join them all together to make a pressure test configuration and plug pool side fittings. Pressure test the plumbing for 24hrs minimum then backfill under pressure. The pipes move when backfilling I leave the rig on for a few days and water the trenches to help settle and hand tamp them as I fill if narrow. After all that cut them and do your pad plumbing amd use jandy or pentair valves. If you have 2" fittings at pump amd filter make manifold out of 2" and do as Allen suggests with valves as reducers that's how we do it. How many returns do you have I see 2 lines going out

 

[Andrew_D]

My first thought (being from the frozen north where we have to break everything apart and drain for winter) is.... where are the unions to make disassembly easier?

Andrew