Plumbing help - moving deck jets to feature pump

[Ahultin]

I want to reconfigure deck jets so that they are supplied off of the water feature pump instead of the circulation pump. This is the way it was suppose to be plumbed initially but was not. Doing so will enable me to run the spa spillover/deck jets/waterfall/water slide simultaneously if desired. I have already remove the jandy valve from the circulation pump side that fed the deck jets now I'm trying to determine the best way to add it to the feature pump. I do not anticipate a desire to use the deck jets and not the waterfall but definitely want to be able to use the waterfall and not the deck jets.
0ption 1. I put the jandy 3 way and actuator in place of the 2.5 90 here. This would require some strategic removal of the elbow or replacement of everything after it.
Option 2. Add a 2.5 tee below that 90, then a jandy 2 way with actuator . This could be done without replacing the check valve and pump union
Option 3. Open to suggestions

 

[Ahultin]

I started moving forward with option 2 as I figured the way it was put together I would have to order a replacement check valve and pump union to execute option one.
Measured how low I would need to cut and busted out the Sawzall lol. Once cut option 3 became aparantant. I was able to put the 3 way low enough that the rest was usable and high enough that facing backwards the intellivalve would fit amd be relatively accessible.
A record 1 trip to home depot for a 10' stick of 2" pvc... because I was 14" short , and it's all done.

 

[ajw22]

Nice work except you used a DWV 90 from HD instead of a Schedule 40 90 made for pressurized applications.

See the small hubs on the red circled 90 versus the larger hubs on the green circled 90.

Probably will be ok above ground and if it springs a leak you can fix it. You don’t want to make that mistake below ground. And it shows a DIY homeowner job.

PVC Repair - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[Ahultin]

Interesting as I did not change out the 2.5" 90's, they are the original the the pb installed and the 2" sweep 90's are pressure rated lasco and waterway parts that the pool contractor left ( he left an entire truck box full of 2 and 3" pvc fittings)

WATERWAY 2" SWEEP 90

WATERWAY 2" SWEEP 90: WATERWAY 2" SPIGOT X 2" S. . 411-9130

waterwayparts.com

Edit, re-read the comment. The green 90 is 2.5", the red circled is 2", maybe that's why they look wrong to you. The only part that came from HD was the 2" straight pipe.

 

[ajw22]

Those Waterway 90s have tripped me up before. Hard to judge relative sizes from pictures at times.

 

[Turbo1Ton]

Looks good! I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by your ability to manipulate the piping in that tight spacing, or with the single Home Depot trip!

--Jeff

 

[Ahultin]

Looks good! I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by your ability to manipulate the piping in that tight spacing, or with the single Home Depot trip!

--Jeff

, the single HD was most definitely the highlight of this project!

 

[Ahultin]

Nice work except you used a DWV 90 from HD instead of a Schedule 40 90 made for pressurized applications.

See the small hubs on the red circled 90 versus the larger hubs on the green circled 90.

Probably will be ok above ground and if it springs a leak you can fix it. You don’t want to make that mistake below ground. And it shows a DIY homeowner job.

PVC Repair - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

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As a somewhat interesting side note, since I am in Southern California, the vast majority of plastic dwv piping is abs not pvc (abs is predominantly used in the southwest us while everywhere else in the country uses pvc) so almost all the pvc at the big box home improvement store is for irrigation, only comes pressure rated, and can't get beyond 2". The closest HD to me that shows dwv sweep ell's in stock is 30 miles away.