Hello all,
This is my first post so I feel compelled to give a little background - my husband and I bought our first house a little over a year ago, and it came with a ~16,000 gallon aboveground pool built into a large deck. Neither of us had ever had a pool before, so we failed pretty miserably at maintaining it last year - used it once right after the pool service opened it and then it went off-balance and stayed that way. I decided to order a Taylor test kit this year and found recommendations for this forum in the Amazon reviews, so thought I would give it a try!
I've read the posts about deep-cleaning and back washing sand filters, which I now know is what we have, so I went to go check the pressure level on the filter because the flow doesn't seem especially strong. However, the gauge is showing exactly 0 psi, and I don't know if that just means the gauge is broken or if the filter isn't working at all. I'm trying to attach a short video to demonstrate that it is making noise - and there's a very low level of vibration if you touch it - but it doesn't like my .mp4 extension.
Is there an easy way to tell, and if it is a broken gauge, is that easy to replace?
Side-notes:
1. Our pool guy supposedly backwashed it a couple days ago, so that suggests maybe it's just a broken gauge?
2. Our pool cover had a small tear in the center we didn't know about, so a lot of leaves got into the pool over the fall/winter. The guy did do some vacuuming and got a lot out, but the water is so cloudy you can't tell if there's more at the bottom right now. Currently SLAMing to resolve that.
This is my first post so I feel compelled to give a little background - my husband and I bought our first house a little over a year ago, and it came with a ~16,000 gallon aboveground pool built into a large deck. Neither of us had ever had a pool before, so we failed pretty miserably at maintaining it last year - used it once right after the pool service opened it and then it went off-balance and stayed that way. I decided to order a Taylor test kit this year and found recommendations for this forum in the Amazon reviews, so thought I would give it a try!
I've read the posts about deep-cleaning and back washing sand filters, which I now know is what we have, so I went to go check the pressure level on the filter because the flow doesn't seem especially strong. However, the gauge is showing exactly 0 psi, and I don't know if that just means the gauge is broken or if the filter isn't working at all. I'm trying to attach a short video to demonstrate that it is making noise - and there's a very low level of vibration if you touch it - but it doesn't like my .mp4 extension.
Is there an easy way to tell, and if it is a broken gauge, is that easy to replace?
Side-notes:
1. Our pool guy supposedly backwashed it a couple days ago, so that suggests maybe it's just a broken gauge?
2. Our pool cover had a small tear in the center we didn't know about, so a lot of leaves got into the pool over the fall/winter. The guy did do some vacuuming and got a lot out, but the water is so cloudy you can't tell if there's more at the bottom right now. Currently SLAMing to resolve that.
