Hello all,
I am a fairly new pool owner that bought a house with a pool last year (details here). Looking for advice.
Having never owned a pool, I (think) I have come a long way, balancing my own chemicals, even performing minor maintenance on my own as needed. Right now I am only relying on a pool company for opening and closing... which I hope to learn how to do in another year or so. They also helped me patch a small leak on the pool opening.
However, I've noticed that all of a sudden my pump is really loud. So loud to the point where I am surprised no neighbors have complained. I don't really know when it started or if it was always this loud. I don't know what it should sound like to be honest. I just kind of noticed it and now I can't unnotice it, so I am assuming it happened recently. Googling tells me that it's either potentially dying, has debris, or in need of some other maintenance.
Functionally, everything seems fine. Flow is great. It's just really... loud. I've looked at the impeller and it seems clean, turns easily when I use my finger to turn it. My guess is that the pump will need replacing soon.
I made three changes to my pool this summer and not sure if any are related to the loud sound.
Change 1: Earlier this summer (about 2 weeks before I noticed the sound) my SWG died, I had an i20 intellichlor that wasn't generating any more chlorine. I bought a new one (an i40) and installed it myself, and things seemed like it was going fine. Change 2: When I opened the pool... I also installed a Polaris Vacuum, which also was doing great most of the summer until this week (all of a sudden it's not staying on the bottom of my pool on all 3 wheels... but I think it is because there is water in the float device). Change 3: Last summer I ran my pool filter 24/7 just because I was still learning and only had the pool open from July-September. This year I added a timer to run the pool pump 8 hours on, 4 hours off, with the polaris running for 2 hours at night. This was in some hope to save a little electricity and to see how far I can push that while keeping the pool clean.
So far in the one year I've had the pool, I can't tell if things breaking or dying are my own fault or if it's just timely with me getting the pool. I have no clue if this pump issue is related to the three changes I listed above. However, every time I get a handle on the pool, something feels like it breaks or needs replacing or re-balancing.
If the pump DOES need to be replaced - I am also not 100% which pump to replace it with (exact same model, something stronger) and I also don't know how easy/hard it is to replace a pump on my own. Any advice on this aspect? My fear is that I'll try to do it on my own, I'll mess it up, and then I'll have to wait a week or two to have a pool company do it, which seems pretty scary from a keeping it clean point of view... plus I assume they will charge a LOT more. I also don't know if I should just let a pool company handle this in terms of difficulty. On terms of difficulty, I found replacing the Intellichlor to be a 3 out of 10 - was pretty easy, but took a few tries to tighten it and get it right. I am not super handy, so not sure if I could handle the pump.
Here are some videos of my setup and the pump going.
A video from last year (I think) where I think the pump sound is lower.
A video from this week, where I think the pump is really loud.
I am a fairly new pool owner that bought a house with a pool last year (details here). Looking for advice.
Having never owned a pool, I (think) I have come a long way, balancing my own chemicals, even performing minor maintenance on my own as needed. Right now I am only relying on a pool company for opening and closing... which I hope to learn how to do in another year or so. They also helped me patch a small leak on the pool opening.
However, I've noticed that all of a sudden my pump is really loud. So loud to the point where I am surprised no neighbors have complained. I don't really know when it started or if it was always this loud. I don't know what it should sound like to be honest. I just kind of noticed it and now I can't unnotice it, so I am assuming it happened recently. Googling tells me that it's either potentially dying, has debris, or in need of some other maintenance.
Functionally, everything seems fine. Flow is great. It's just really... loud. I've looked at the impeller and it seems clean, turns easily when I use my finger to turn it. My guess is that the pump will need replacing soon.
I made three changes to my pool this summer and not sure if any are related to the loud sound.
Change 1: Earlier this summer (about 2 weeks before I noticed the sound) my SWG died, I had an i20 intellichlor that wasn't generating any more chlorine. I bought a new one (an i40) and installed it myself, and things seemed like it was going fine. Change 2: When I opened the pool... I also installed a Polaris Vacuum, which also was doing great most of the summer until this week (all of a sudden it's not staying on the bottom of my pool on all 3 wheels... but I think it is because there is water in the float device). Change 3: Last summer I ran my pool filter 24/7 just because I was still learning and only had the pool open from July-September. This year I added a timer to run the pool pump 8 hours on, 4 hours off, with the polaris running for 2 hours at night. This was in some hope to save a little electricity and to see how far I can push that while keeping the pool clean.
So far in the one year I've had the pool, I can't tell if things breaking or dying are my own fault or if it's just timely with me getting the pool. I have no clue if this pump issue is related to the three changes I listed above. However, every time I get a handle on the pool, something feels like it breaks or needs replacing or re-balancing.
If the pump DOES need to be replaced - I am also not 100% which pump to replace it with (exact same model, something stronger) and I also don't know how easy/hard it is to replace a pump on my own. Any advice on this aspect? My fear is that I'll try to do it on my own, I'll mess it up, and then I'll have to wait a week or two to have a pool company do it, which seems pretty scary from a keeping it clean point of view... plus I assume they will charge a LOT more. I also don't know if I should just let a pool company handle this in terms of difficulty. On terms of difficulty, I found replacing the Intellichlor to be a 3 out of 10 - was pretty easy, but took a few tries to tighten it and get it right. I am not super handy, so not sure if I could handle the pump.
Here are some videos of my setup and the pump going.
A video from last year (I think) where I think the pump sound is lower.
A video from this week, where I think the pump is really loud.
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