Hi all,
If you've followed my other threads, you'll know I have a leak in one of my return lines behind the shed.
I've decided to hire a local company that I do trust for a few reasons: I'm struggling for the time to do the repair right now, I think I might have a tough time given how tight things are where the leak is and I thought this gives me a good excuse to do the general tidy up re-plumb I've had planned for years with the equipment. The guy is great.
I've attached some photos, and I'll add some explanation:
- A flex hose connects to the waste pipe behind the shed, which goes out via black poly.
- Filter connects via flex hose to that section of joins and valves you see behind it.
- The valve on the left goes out the shed, then to the heater, then back behind the shed and splits off into the two separate return lines that have the unions attached (which were a little bit underground) and then into flex, which at some point changes to the black poly
- The right hand valve goes into one pipe that feeds the stair jets and must split right by the stairs. It also goes flex underground, and then changes to the black poly at some point
- The green hose did go to the slide. It seems to just be a garden hose, and then goes inside a black pipe behind the shed and underground. I capped this off because I determined it must be leaking underground based on a bucket test a few years ago.
My thoughts are:
1. After the filter, one feed to the heater so everything goes through it
2. That would then come back into the shed and split with separate shutoff valves / unions: 1 to the stairs, 1 to one main return and 1 to the other. Then they'd go out the shed and underground.
3. Tidy up that mess behind the shed (and of course fix the leak), creating space between the pipes that go underground so they're not on top of each other as they are right now
4. I'll dig down further to see if I can find where the flex turns to the black poly so we can replumb from there If I can't, then we'll just need to go from the flex and find the black poly another day.
5. Remove the flex, the black poly and change everything to SCH 40 1.5" PVC (seems like all my other pipes are 1.5", so not much sense in changing just here to 2"). As per #4, I might not be able to remove the flex that goes underground, but I'll try.
6. Something with the slide, but I have no idea what! I'm going to see if the existing hose will pull through the black pipe it's in and if it does, we could couple a new hose to it and pull it through. But if not, I'm not going to trench up the yard and interlock just for the slide. Could I maybe run something overground around the back and side fence?
7. Leave the waste hose alone - I don't see the need to replace the short distance of flex with rigid piping.
Any thoughts? Anything I'm missing, any ideas that don't make sense, etc.?
Do you have any specific suggestions for what to do, what not to do, etc. when doing this? My pool guy is happy to accommodate, so this is my chance to get it right back there.
Thanks!
Graham.
If you've followed my other threads, you'll know I have a leak in one of my return lines behind the shed.
I've decided to hire a local company that I do trust for a few reasons: I'm struggling for the time to do the repair right now, I think I might have a tough time given how tight things are where the leak is and I thought this gives me a good excuse to do the general tidy up re-plumb I've had planned for years with the equipment. The guy is great.
I've attached some photos, and I'll add some explanation:
- A flex hose connects to the waste pipe behind the shed, which goes out via black poly.
- Filter connects via flex hose to that section of joins and valves you see behind it.
- The valve on the left goes out the shed, then to the heater, then back behind the shed and splits off into the two separate return lines that have the unions attached (which were a little bit underground) and then into flex, which at some point changes to the black poly
- The right hand valve goes into one pipe that feeds the stair jets and must split right by the stairs. It also goes flex underground, and then changes to the black poly at some point
- The green hose did go to the slide. It seems to just be a garden hose, and then goes inside a black pipe behind the shed and underground. I capped this off because I determined it must be leaking underground based on a bucket test a few years ago.
My thoughts are:
1. After the filter, one feed to the heater so everything goes through it
2. That would then come back into the shed and split with separate shutoff valves / unions: 1 to the stairs, 1 to one main return and 1 to the other. Then they'd go out the shed and underground.
3. Tidy up that mess behind the shed (and of course fix the leak), creating space between the pipes that go underground so they're not on top of each other as they are right now
4. I'll dig down further to see if I can find where the flex turns to the black poly so we can replumb from there If I can't, then we'll just need to go from the flex and find the black poly another day.
5. Remove the flex, the black poly and change everything to SCH 40 1.5" PVC (seems like all my other pipes are 1.5", so not much sense in changing just here to 2"). As per #4, I might not be able to remove the flex that goes underground, but I'll try.
6. Something with the slide, but I have no idea what! I'm going to see if the existing hose will pull through the black pipe it's in and if it does, we could couple a new hose to it and pull it through. But if not, I'm not going to trench up the yard and interlock just for the slide. Could I maybe run something overground around the back and side fence?
7. Leave the waste hose alone - I don't see the need to replace the short distance of flex with rigid piping.
Any thoughts? Anything I'm missing, any ideas that don't make sense, etc.?
Do you have any specific suggestions for what to do, what not to do, etc. when doing this? My pool guy is happy to accommodate, so this is my chance to get it right back there.
Thanks!
Graham.
I'm surprised no one has chimed in on this thread yet. We have many members who have their equipment in a shed like yours. You seem to have the right idea overall. Have you started the rebuild yet?