SL Dan
08-31-2011, 12:42 PM
My pool has been leaking. After 5 weeks of haphazard experimentation we had a breakthrough yesterday. All the light had to be just right, but we finally spotted a small hole in the copper at the bottom of the in-ground skimmer. Its an old rig, 1959, when the skimmer and filter were the same unit (and the original build is in a patio which for over 30 years has sat 12" below a redwood deck). So, we plugged it with epoxy putty. So far, so good.
Now, of course the filter hasn't been run for weeks and I have a swamp. I see 3 possibilities:
1) Bomb it with chemicals and then run the DE filter and be prepared it clean it like mad.
2) Drain it and start over.
3) My neighbor, who originally found the pool was leaking because my house sits on a hillside above his house, and has insisted on running this operation, has the following idea. First I should say, he's very organic minded and I share this with him. The house was built by his father in 1961. Obviously I have great concern about any damage to the slope holding up my pool and hovering over his house, so I've been very respectful of his thoughts. He thinks we can try to vacuum the largest mass of the algae off the bottom and drain it out, not using the filter. He doesn't want any chemicals in that water because any massive draining I do will go over my fence and down his driveway to a drain that runs under his slope, probably into the grove he's recently planted.
So, I'm looking for thoughts, ideas, experience.
DS
Now, of course the filter hasn't been run for weeks and I have a swamp. I see 3 possibilities:
1) Bomb it with chemicals and then run the DE filter and be prepared it clean it like mad.
2) Drain it and start over.
3) My neighbor, who originally found the pool was leaking because my house sits on a hillside above his house, and has insisted on running this operation, has the following idea. First I should say, he's very organic minded and I share this with him. The house was built by his father in 1961. Obviously I have great concern about any damage to the slope holding up my pool and hovering over his house, so I've been very respectful of his thoughts. He thinks we can try to vacuum the largest mass of the algae off the bottom and drain it out, not using the filter. He doesn't want any chemicals in that water because any massive draining I do will go over my fence and down his driveway to a drain that runs under his slope, probably into the grove he's recently planted.
So, I'm looking for thoughts, ideas, experience.
DS