Little background, I grew up in the 80's taking care of a 60K concrete pool my great uncle built in the late 50's. Originally had no skimmer and two water outlets, only filter intake was the drain. Filter was an old boiler tank full of sand.
In the mid 80's we installed a single skimmer, moved the intake on the bottom, and had two jets installed. I took care of that pool until the mid 90's when I went off to school.
Worked for golf courses while off at college, so had some pool care involved there as well.
Now I'm taking care of the country club pool in my tiny rural Arkansas town. Was built in the 60's, L shaped pool with the _ of the L being the deep end. Supposedly 160K gallons Concrete, of course.
I've been the caretaker for two years now after the long-time caretaker retired. Pump is Pentair C series that has seen better days, but fuctions. Filters are two large steel tanks fed by 4" PVC, with the same size outputs going to a single 4" PVC that goes under the concrete deck to the jets. Two screens at the bottom of the deep end for intake. No skimmers, has a spit rail that drains into a holding tank/ cistern in the pump room.
In short, it's old, worn out, and very out of date, but as our town has shrunk, so has the membership at the country club and thus money is very, very tight. Last year total cost for running this pool Memorial day to Labor day was about $5500, including $900 to rebuild the pump motor.
Fired the pump up a couple of days ago after draining, cleaning, and refilling the pool. Both filters have been patched by a welder about 15 years ago, and both filters blew holes in those patches upon pressurization. I had a welder out there this morning who re-patched the filters, but said the metal is super thin so he had to stay low on the heat, and he didn't think his patches will be a long term fix.
So, looking for filters. From the little research I've done we need to turn the water over 3 times a day, so that's rounded to a half million gallons a day.
Pentair has a Triton 2 TR140 that rolls 203,040 gallons per 24 hours, so I'd be short running two of those side by side like we are now. Can anyone offer any advice on what we should be looking for?
I'm hoping that the patching done today will get us through the season, and we can swap filters out in the off-season, but I need to be looking at options and figure out what direction we should take now.
I'm in farm country, so everyone is taking about using ag tanks and filling with sand to cobble together homemade filters. While no doubt that could be made to work, that will likely cause me problems down the road that will not be easily be fixed, so I'd rather get serviceable actual pool filters if possible.
I'll post pics tomorrow. Yall will all slap yourselves and wonder how and why we're trying to limp along this ancient monster of a pool LOL.
In short, poor farming community, club with declining membership, and it's what we have. I'm someone who enjoys old everything, and like working on stuff, so it's right up my alley.
In the mid 80's we installed a single skimmer, moved the intake on the bottom, and had two jets installed. I took care of that pool until the mid 90's when I went off to school.
Worked for golf courses while off at college, so had some pool care involved there as well.
Now I'm taking care of the country club pool in my tiny rural Arkansas town. Was built in the 60's, L shaped pool with the _ of the L being the deep end. Supposedly 160K gallons Concrete, of course.
I've been the caretaker for two years now after the long-time caretaker retired. Pump is Pentair C series that has seen better days, but fuctions. Filters are two large steel tanks fed by 4" PVC, with the same size outputs going to a single 4" PVC that goes under the concrete deck to the jets. Two screens at the bottom of the deep end for intake. No skimmers, has a spit rail that drains into a holding tank/ cistern in the pump room.
In short, it's old, worn out, and very out of date, but as our town has shrunk, so has the membership at the country club and thus money is very, very tight. Last year total cost for running this pool Memorial day to Labor day was about $5500, including $900 to rebuild the pump motor.
Fired the pump up a couple of days ago after draining, cleaning, and refilling the pool. Both filters have been patched by a welder about 15 years ago, and both filters blew holes in those patches upon pressurization. I had a welder out there this morning who re-patched the filters, but said the metal is super thin so he had to stay low on the heat, and he didn't think his patches will be a long term fix.
So, looking for filters. From the little research I've done we need to turn the water over 3 times a day, so that's rounded to a half million gallons a day.
Pentair has a Triton 2 TR140 that rolls 203,040 gallons per 24 hours, so I'd be short running two of those side by side like we are now. Can anyone offer any advice on what we should be looking for?
I'm hoping that the patching done today will get us through the season, and we can swap filters out in the off-season, but I need to be looking at options and figure out what direction we should take now.
I'm in farm country, so everyone is taking about using ag tanks and filling with sand to cobble together homemade filters. While no doubt that could be made to work, that will likely cause me problems down the road that will not be easily be fixed, so I'd rather get serviceable actual pool filters if possible.
I'll post pics tomorrow. Yall will all slap yourselves and wonder how and why we're trying to limp along this ancient monster of a pool LOL.
In short, poor farming community, club with declining membership, and it's what we have. I'm someone who enjoys old everything, and like working on stuff, so it's right up my alley.
