Happy spring!
We are at the Va/Nc line.
I am a southern idiot originating from Savannah soo I forgot "winterizing" includes the pool.
I wondering if I broke something in a freeze.
All valves appear to work as they should. No leaks,
We uncovered our 33k gal pool a week ago. The system has been down since last fall. Our Salt cell failed and we finished the season w chlorine. We had a nice pea soup and our open included cleaning everything as best as possible prior to lighting the pump off. (robot passes, skimmers). My Bride did the chemistry for a slam which was 6 gal of 10% chlorine. I back flushed the sand filter and got pea soup out and the sightglass ran pretty clean in about what seem the reg 3-4 minutes. The system was set to filter and left for 4 hours. Upon back flushing the sight glass ran clear.... not slightly murky... but very clear. I did not expect this as the water was still pea soup. I set the sys to clean and left overnight.
In the morning the green was gone and the water grey and cloudy.
I ran a backwash and the water was clean the entire time...
I imagined back flushing the filter 4-6 times in 3 days and still did not expect this.
the well house is below grade on a hillside in an open block indention facing south w/ no doors... All lines are 2" and it an oversized filter (heatsink mass).
My psi gauge is whacked at full gauge... but does move about 5-10lb when the pump kicks on. This was a clean filter reading last year. It cannot be clean yet I ran w/ the gauge out and it was an anemic flow w/ some air. I expected a steady jet.
The impeller is clean and filter lid on tight.
After playing for about hour today working valves for skimmer/jets I can see a layer of pea soup flowing out of the "sheet" jet.
Have I frozen/broke something in the valve?
Have I "impacted" my filter... yet Blown a clear water path for the backwash cycle??
My PSI at the jets/ skimmer is low on "filter" but even on Recirculate where I imagine it should be humming as normal (never tried that last year). This is what makes me suspect of the valve ... which I assume could provide the result I attribute to "impacted filter".
One last observation. I pulled the drain plug and got drips of pea soup.... I assumed there is s filter /screen to retain sand....so I lightly bumped the pump and only got a minor increase in water flow.
Forgive the long post I have read other posts here on this topic but not encountered this same issue.
We are at the Va/Nc line.
I am a southern idiot originating from Savannah soo I forgot "winterizing" includes the pool.
I wondering if I broke something in a freeze.
All valves appear to work as they should. No leaks,
We uncovered our 33k gal pool a week ago. The system has been down since last fall. Our Salt cell failed and we finished the season w chlorine. We had a nice pea soup and our open included cleaning everything as best as possible prior to lighting the pump off. (robot passes, skimmers). My Bride did the chemistry for a slam which was 6 gal of 10% chlorine. I back flushed the sand filter and got pea soup out and the sightglass ran pretty clean in about what seem the reg 3-4 minutes. The system was set to filter and left for 4 hours. Upon back flushing the sight glass ran clear.... not slightly murky... but very clear. I did not expect this as the water was still pea soup. I set the sys to clean and left overnight.
In the morning the green was gone and the water grey and cloudy.
I ran a backwash and the water was clean the entire time...
I imagined back flushing the filter 4-6 times in 3 days and still did not expect this.
the well house is below grade on a hillside in an open block indention facing south w/ no doors... All lines are 2" and it an oversized filter (heatsink mass).
My psi gauge is whacked at full gauge... but does move about 5-10lb when the pump kicks on. This was a clean filter reading last year. It cannot be clean yet I ran w/ the gauge out and it was an anemic flow w/ some air. I expected a steady jet.
The impeller is clean and filter lid on tight.
After playing for about hour today working valves for skimmer/jets I can see a layer of pea soup flowing out of the "sheet" jet.
Have I frozen/broke something in the valve?
Have I "impacted" my filter... yet Blown a clear water path for the backwash cycle??
My PSI at the jets/ skimmer is low on "filter" but even on Recirculate where I imagine it should be humming as normal (never tried that last year). This is what makes me suspect of the valve ... which I assume could provide the result I attribute to "impacted filter".
One last observation. I pulled the drain plug and got drips of pea soup.... I assumed there is s filter /screen to retain sand....so I lightly bumped the pump and only got a minor increase in water flow.
Forgive the long post I have read other posts here on this topic but not encountered this same issue.
