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Just registered to post after looking over countless posts and exhausted all YouTube resources. Looks like this site may be the most help.
So we bought a house last month with a pool or oversized bathtub. I’m estimating it’s 7500-10k gallons. It was a swamp when I got it so I drained and power washed it. The pump was running almost nonstop every time we looked at the house and when we moved in I noticed no water running through the pump. The pump is also very loud but not the rocks churning sound...more like a very loud hum.
When I prime it takes about 60 seconds for water to come back through (I fill it up before I turn pump on) and for 2 seconds or so the psi rises and it operates as I believe it should then it lowers and it pull in a much smalller amount of water than it should. I can constantly release air from the filter so it makes me think there is an intake leak but I’ve done all the tests and can’t locate one.
This leads me to think it’s a pump issue. It’s a 1.5 hp pump for a small pool and since it was running dry for so long I’m thinking it’s leaking somewhere. I did remove the pump to do some diagnostics and also clean out the impeller which was actually clean. I ran it for a moment while I had it disconnected and it sounded a million times more quiet so that makes me think the pump could be on?
Sorry for the long post——-anyone have suggestions on where to begin or if I should start with replacing the pump and downsizing? Intake pipes are 2” and 1.5 out of the filter.
Please let me know what further info you’d like to assist in these desperate times ?.
Thanks!!!
Jared
Just registered to post after looking over countless posts and exhausted all YouTube resources. Looks like this site may be the most help.
So we bought a house last month with a pool or oversized bathtub. I’m estimating it’s 7500-10k gallons. It was a swamp when I got it so I drained and power washed it. The pump was running almost nonstop every time we looked at the house and when we moved in I noticed no water running through the pump. The pump is also very loud but not the rocks churning sound...more like a very loud hum.
When I prime it takes about 60 seconds for water to come back through (I fill it up before I turn pump on) and for 2 seconds or so the psi rises and it operates as I believe it should then it lowers and it pull in a much smalller amount of water than it should. I can constantly release air from the filter so it makes me think there is an intake leak but I’ve done all the tests and can’t locate one.
This leads me to think it’s a pump issue. It’s a 1.5 hp pump for a small pool and since it was running dry for so long I’m thinking it’s leaking somewhere. I did remove the pump to do some diagnostics and also clean out the impeller which was actually clean. I ran it for a moment while I had it disconnected and it sounded a million times more quiet so that makes me think the pump could be on?
Sorry for the long post——-anyone have suggestions on where to begin or if I should start with replacing the pump and downsizing? Intake pipes are 2” and 1.5 out of the filter.
Please let me know what further info you’d like to assist in these desperate times ?.
Thanks!!!
Jared