Since I bought my home 3 years ago this forum has been immensely helpful in keeping me sane since the house included an in ground pool. However, I'm not a pool person and have been in it maybe 3 times since buying the house. Its a source of constant maintenance even with this site's awesome mantra of avoiding pool stores and just using liquid chlorine and balancing ph. But with the season upon us, I now have a few issues to go along with a a pool turning green and a broken lateral.
1. The first is going to make me look like an idiot but at this point I don't care. I bought a new collapsible handle to sweep, vacuum, and skim the pool with and its worked fine for about a year. However recently upon vacuuming the pool, one of the ends collapsed as its designed to do and I cant get it to stay extended anymore. This has got to be an extremely simple fix but I'm at my wits end trying to find how to get the handle to stay fully extended and I haven't been able to sweep my pool since. What gives? You can tell there is supposed to be an internal collar thats supposed to hold the handle extended after you screw each piece together but I cant find it on the piece that keeps collapsing. Please help me outsmart a pool wand.
2. I took the filter basked out of my pool to change out the pool sock that was clogged up with a pollen and left the pump running. This was a bad idea because I believe this is now why my pool pump makes god awful racket when I try to run it at all. So now I cant even run the pump to keep the pool from turning further green. Its most likely a piece of tape or some other other debris that has gotten wrapped around the pump propeller but I have ZERO clue on how to disassemble this thing to fix it. Whats my best course of action? Can I dump the several gallons of bleach into the pool to keep it from turning more green or do I have to have the pump to circulate it?
3. Then there is the broken lateral I've known about for a long time. The pool has all the telltale signs including spraying sand in a line from the jets and sand visible in the multivalve. I don't have a shop vac and honestly its worth it to me to pay a pool company to deal with this instead of myself. But with all the lockdowns going on I dont even know if thats possible. Does anyone have an idea of what Im looking at from a pool shop to have the lateral fixed? What about the pump? I'm in SC.
Sorry if I'm a bit incoherent but I really need to catch a break in the home maintenance department.
1. The first is going to make me look like an idiot but at this point I don't care. I bought a new collapsible handle to sweep, vacuum, and skim the pool with and its worked fine for about a year. However recently upon vacuuming the pool, one of the ends collapsed as its designed to do and I cant get it to stay extended anymore. This has got to be an extremely simple fix but I'm at my wits end trying to find how to get the handle to stay fully extended and I haven't been able to sweep my pool since. What gives? You can tell there is supposed to be an internal collar thats supposed to hold the handle extended after you screw each piece together but I cant find it on the piece that keeps collapsing. Please help me outsmart a pool wand.
2. I took the filter basked out of my pool to change out the pool sock that was clogged up with a pollen and left the pump running. This was a bad idea because I believe this is now why my pool pump makes god awful racket when I try to run it at all. So now I cant even run the pump to keep the pool from turning further green. Its most likely a piece of tape or some other other debris that has gotten wrapped around the pump propeller but I have ZERO clue on how to disassemble this thing to fix it. Whats my best course of action? Can I dump the several gallons of bleach into the pool to keep it from turning more green or do I have to have the pump to circulate it?
3. Then there is the broken lateral I've known about for a long time. The pool has all the telltale signs including spraying sand in a line from the jets and sand visible in the multivalve. I don't have a shop vac and honestly its worth it to me to pay a pool company to deal with this instead of myself. But with all the lockdowns going on I dont even know if thats possible. Does anyone have an idea of what Im looking at from a pool shop to have the lateral fixed? What about the pump? I'm in SC.
Sorry if I'm a bit incoherent but I really need to catch a break in the home maintenance department.
