UPDATE!!! :queen:
Because I finally discovered TFP last season and all that I have learned in PoolSchool and all the help from the forum.... I just had the
sweetest pool opening EVER!!!
In a mere 5 days and a dozen gallons of bleach... SLAM complete!!! I cut 30 days and 100 gallons of bleach off last year"s opening (my first time)!! So, I add in my salt & begin bringing CYA up to target. All that's left to do is dial in my SWG
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This teacher is sooo thrilled to actually spend her summertime off in her beautiful Trouble Free Pool :sunny:
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So, I'm floating around thinking that life can't get any better & I noticed a couple of specks of something on the bottom:grrrr: Yes, I'm becoming OCD about my pool! So, I get out & hook up the vac & go to town. I vac to waste, then backwash to clear in the spy glass, then rinse to clear & turn the filter back on ready to dive back into my PERFECT pool, but horror of all horrors!!! sand & all kinds of **** is shooting out from the returns back into my pool!!!
So, I go back to TFP and read up to make sure I am vacuuming correctly and fill the pool back up (I used a lot of water vacuuming, backwashing & rinsing) and start over. I vacuumed to waste until it was clean again, opened the pump basket to clean it & it had quite a bit of sand in the bottom!! (I've never seen that before) cleaned it out, backwashed & rinsed again twice, just to make sure, turned it back to filter & stuff came out again!!! Ugggggh! Also, the pump basket while running has a lot of air bubbles churning in it, the top of the sand filter (around the connection between the multiport valve & top of sand filter) is leaking water & the pump pressure is is up to 24psi & is normally 15psi! I tried more backwashing but the pressure stays high!
Okay, so I'm thinking it's the fitting under the multiport valve that's leaking & hopefully I need a gasket or something and I don't have a major problem. All help is always welcome
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HELP!! Thanks
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