It's been a lot of work redoing the retaining wall around the pool. Still have a final grading to do along with grass seed and fencing. We will be doing pavers next year after the budget rebounds. I have had the Circupool RJ-60 and Variable speed pump sitting in the basement waiting to be installed. We decided to switch over from single speed for the energy efficiency along with the change over to SWG. Made all of the plumbing connections yesterday and was able to run the pump for about 15 minutes between rinsing the fresh sand in the filter and circulating it on filter for a little bit.
I couldn't stand the old plumbing that was there from the previous homeowner. He had the white plastic ball valves with the red handles. They were so hard to turn and last year ended up snapping one and getting a pretty good chunk of skin missing from my hand. I went with two 3 way valves to eliminate the third valve he had. I mounted the breaker box, motor control and the SWG control module inside the pool house to keep it out of the weather. Still need to run the wires from the flow switch and the salt cell but should have that done tonight. We are gong to get the salt dumped in the pool tonight and let the filter run for two days. I also need to add some bleach to get the chlorine level up a little.
I was going to attach a pic of the retaining wall but it gave me an error that I was out of space. The top pic is the new plumbing and the bottom pic is the best I have of the old plumbing.
I couldn't stand the old plumbing that was there from the previous homeowner. He had the white plastic ball valves with the red handles. They were so hard to turn and last year ended up snapping one and getting a pretty good chunk of skin missing from my hand. I went with two 3 way valves to eliminate the third valve he had. I mounted the breaker box, motor control and the SWG control module inside the pool house to keep it out of the weather. Still need to run the wires from the flow switch and the salt cell but should have that done tonight. We are gong to get the salt dumped in the pool tonight and let the filter run for two days. I also need to add some bleach to get the chlorine level up a little.
I was going to attach a pic of the retaining wall but it gave me an error that I was out of space. The top pic is the new plumbing and the bottom pic is the best I have of the old plumbing.
