Hi, first time posting. My wife and I bought a house that has a inground pool and inground spa, completely separate on 2 completely separate systems. The spa is approx 10ft diameter and estimate 1300 gallons. All the equipment for the spa is in our basement. I believe most of the equipment is original and the date of manufacture on one of my Century pumps is 2005, and I think everything was installed in 2005-2006. I'm running into some age issues with the pumps leaking, and my Waterway Clearwater DE filter (60sq ft) has cracks I have to epoxy for a temporary fix. I'm looking to replace everything except my heater, which seems to be in good shape since it's out of the weather. I want a cartridge filter instead of a DE filter, because it's in my basement and I have to backwash out of a small high window with the residual water/DE going into my sump pit, and I end up with DE all over my floor. I think what I have currently is oversized, since the filter is the same filter that was installed for my 26000 gallon pool. So current setup is the Waterway DE filter, Raypak heater (I think 400000 btu, propane), the pump for the filter is a Century 1.5 hp 3450 rpm (though for some reason there's a sticker on the pump that says "Powered by Total HP = 2.20 Century") and this returns through 4 jets in the spa, for the jets only it is a Century Centurion 2.0 HP 3450 rpm pump that returns through 8 jets (so I have 12 jets total). Problem I have here is we can never use the jets, because they're so powerful it blasts water out of the spa and I'll lose like 2 inches of water in 15 minutes and have to run the hose to fill it again. I'm upgrading my Compool CP3810 with the Easytouch upgrade kit so I can get a variable speed pump for the filter. I like the idea of being able to run a low filter speed constantly when we're not using the spa. Because the spa is in the basement, the pumps have to pump vertically 5 or 6 feet to get to the level of the jets (best guess), and maybe this is why they used a 2hp pump for the jets? All 2 inch pipe. So I'm asking for recommendations on if a variable speed pump should work for my filter and if so, what size/brand/model, what size/brand/model pump I should get for the jets and whether a dual speed pump would give me any benefit over single speed, what size cartridge filter I should get brand/model, and is it feasible to put a chlorine generator inline for this size spa and what I should look for. Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to provide as many details as possible.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Thanks,
Jeremy