Need advice on choosing a water feature pump

[559OwnerBuild]

Hello everyone! I’m skewing advice on choosing a pump for my water features. My main pump for my pool is an Intelliflo VSF. I’ve seen threads on here about pluming the pipe a certain way to utilize a single pump for pool and water features but unsure if that’s the route I want to go. Also I was wondering if anyone knows what it means on my stubbed pipes that one says “Sheers” and another says “Sheers svc”. I haven’t talked to my plumber in a bit, because I’ve been dealing with gunite, tile, concrete etc , so I’ll ask him soon but wanted to see if any of you knew.

Here is some info about my water features….


- Plumbing from Equipment pad to water features are 15’-25’ in distance.

- Plumbing is 2” PVC

- I will have a total of 3 water features. (1 - 48” wide water sheer, 2 - fire bowls with water spill way; I believe fire bowl spill ways are 8”-12”)


Thank you for the help/advice as usual!
Thomas

 

[mknauss]

Could you post a few more pictures of the pool equipment pad?

Water features need a certain amount of gpm per inch. Get that information for your features.

 

[559OwnerBuild]

 

[kadavis]

As per the DOE you can use a waterfall pump that does not exceed 1800 RPM at<30ft or a variable speed pump