We have a recently installed inground pool with a Pool Miser autofill/overflow. The overflow drain is connected to our subsurface drainage underneath the travertine decking. The exit point for our subsurface drainage is out by the street by the curb. My issue/question is that the exit point keeps having water drain from it all day long. We haven’t had significant rain lately, so it’s got to be coming from the pool overflow. This has gone on all day today. When I open up the top of the Pool Miser, I see water draining into the pipe. What could the problem be? Why does the pool overflow keep draining all day long?
Pool overflow issue
- Thread starter cstouder22
- Start date
- May 3, 2014
- 58,391
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Have you adjusted the autofill valve so your pool water level stays well below the overflow drain?
- May 3, 2014
- 58,391
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
You should be able to adjust the height of the black float in the autofill well. You can see the water is up to the overflow pipe. It should be a good inch or so below that. The water should be at the mid point or just under of the skimmer entrance.
22,
As a test you can shut off your auto-fill and see if the over flow stops..
Jim R.
As a test you can shut off your auto-fill and see if the over flow stops..
Jim R.
Yes, the overflow stopped once I shut off the auto-fill. Looks like tomorrow I will have to adjust the float to be lower than it is now.