We recently finished our pool construction and it quickly became apparent that my plumbers either intentionally misled me, or simply made a mistake. I prefer to think the latter. We have a raised spa with a spillover into the pool. It is not a spillway, but a true spillover edge (see attached). The problem that has been created is that they never plumbed it for the pumps to be running while the pool cover is closed. Thus, if I have my pumps on, the water is being pumped through the in-floor system, into the spa, and spills over onto the pool cover, which doesn't work. The plumber has suggested we isolate the spa from the pool, but we are an in-floor system and the only water that returns to the spa is via the in-floor system, so no water would be circulating in the spa with his suggestion. So I don't love that.
My thought was to cut a 2" pipe into the waterline of the spa, run it through and down the bond beam to the dirt area where we will put turf. From there we'd run it into the skimmer. I would bury a valve in an irrigation box that would be connected to the easy touch so whenever we close the pool we just turn on "cover closed" mode which would open the valve and gravity feed the spa into the skimmer.
Anybody have any better ideas?
My thought was to cut a 2" pipe into the waterline of the spa, run it through and down the bond beam to the dirt area where we will put turf. From there we'd run it into the skimmer. I would bury a valve in an irrigation box that would be connected to the easy touch so whenever we close the pool we just turn on "cover closed" mode which would open the valve and gravity feed the spa into the skimmer.
Anybody have any better ideas?
