*ryan
06-02-2011, 02:19 PM
Bought this house, was a foreclosure
came with a pool, wasnt looking for one, but i have it, and would like to get it working
long turm goals would be saltwater, mainly for ease on dogs skin, and maybe a solar heater, ranch home, equipment right next to the house, lots of roof room, which gets 10+ hours of hot sun all day
it is an inground, 11x31 ish pool, about 4' deep all around, has some benches in it too built in, not a liner, fiberglass pool i would say
pool was covered, but had no inflators under the cover, and it was ripped
so lots of leaves and debris got in
took the cover off
bough a leaf bag attachment instead of the pool skimmer
scouped out the leaves, everyday i go out and try to scoup more, once it gets dispurced i give up and wait till the next day
i have lot of brown silt like material, which i would imaigne is decaying leaves and algea
put in 2 gallons of bleech
still scouping
i pulled out all the winterizing plugs, and put all the doodads and plugs back into the filter
filled up the skimmer basket
and put the vlave onto backwash and started it up, motor is not frozen which is good
backwashed for a min, put it onto rinse, for a min, then to filter
stuff started to blow out of the 2 output jets
air
and then a cloud of white, looked like old chemicals or something
ran for abotu 10 min
then the filter was still running but the jets started to buble out and then stop
turned off fitler
put on backwash
for 1 min
then to filter
and it started up again
i am missing the large pool skimmer basket in the pool
but the small one is not glogged
since the white cloud came out i have a thick black film has started to build up on the surface of the water
this is what i feel is happening
the film is getting sucked into the filter and glogging it right away
so i have to backwash it clean
then start the filter up again
no?
yes?
i have some pics of the equipment i have and the white clouds that formed
it says its a 30" filter, i would imagine it is sand
how do i go about tackling this?
ive heard if i pump it out the pool might pop out of the ground due to diferances in hydrodstatic pressure
this is my first pool, so i am happy to learn and hoping too
thank you for all your help
and ideas on getting my pool up and running
came with a pool, wasnt looking for one, but i have it, and would like to get it working
long turm goals would be saltwater, mainly for ease on dogs skin, and maybe a solar heater, ranch home, equipment right next to the house, lots of roof room, which gets 10+ hours of hot sun all day
it is an inground, 11x31 ish pool, about 4' deep all around, has some benches in it too built in, not a liner, fiberglass pool i would say
pool was covered, but had no inflators under the cover, and it was ripped
so lots of leaves and debris got in
took the cover off
bough a leaf bag attachment instead of the pool skimmer
scouped out the leaves, everyday i go out and try to scoup more, once it gets dispurced i give up and wait till the next day
i have lot of brown silt like material, which i would imaigne is decaying leaves and algea
put in 2 gallons of bleech
still scouping
i pulled out all the winterizing plugs, and put all the doodads and plugs back into the filter
filled up the skimmer basket
and put the vlave onto backwash and started it up, motor is not frozen which is good
backwashed for a min, put it onto rinse, for a min, then to filter
stuff started to blow out of the 2 output jets
air
and then a cloud of white, looked like old chemicals or something
ran for abotu 10 min
then the filter was still running but the jets started to buble out and then stop
turned off fitler
put on backwash
for 1 min
then to filter
and it started up again
i am missing the large pool skimmer basket in the pool
but the small one is not glogged
since the white cloud came out i have a thick black film has started to build up on the surface of the water
this is what i feel is happening
the film is getting sucked into the filter and glogging it right away
so i have to backwash it clean
then start the filter up again
no?
yes?
i have some pics of the equipment i have and the white clouds that formed
it says its a 30" filter, i would imagine it is sand
how do i go about tackling this?
ive heard if i pump it out the pool might pop out of the ground due to diferances in hydrodstatic pressure
this is my first pool, so i am happy to learn and hoping too
thank you for all your help
and ideas on getting my pool up and running