Just bought a house in Las Vegas with a pool and....

[PoolDoc]

Oh, one question. There's a float mechanism . . .

Can't tell from here, but auto-fill valves are a lot more common than pump protection devices.

In the past 3 - 4 years, there've been requirements on COMMERCIAL pools, to have pump auto-shutoff devices, to prevent 'gut-sucking' accidents, which can occur when someone sits on an improperly installed main drain. But, I don't think those are common on residential pools.

[St8kout]

Still waiting to close on this house, but in the meantime, can anyone give me a primer on using the valves shown? There are 3 inlets going into the pump, obviously main drain, skimmer, and jacuzzi drain, with 2 open/close valves.

Then coming out of the pump and before going into the filter there is a T joint, with a small pipe going into the ground. This pipe has a small open/close valve between the T and the ground. Don't have a clue what it's for or where it's going. My best guess is it's to drain the pool.

There's one valve-less pipe from the outlet of the filter, into the water heater. Then out of the heater to a pair of pipes back into the ground. One to the jacuzzi and the other to the pool I assume. (2nd pic)

There's also a cylinder sticking up out of the ground by the heater labeled Bromine. No obvious way to tell how it's connected underground. It's to the left of the green gas pipe in the 2nd pic.

There's no obvious way to do a backflush that neither me nor my realtor (who also has a pool) can figure out. Or does this kind of system not need one?

We found the jacuzzi water-jet switch, but it makes a screeching sound like a bearing is shot. The sound is coming from within the heater housing.




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On a side note, I never saw them but the realtor told me the "city" had posted stickers on my garage door about the green pool. Seems they were going to issue a fine if it wasn't cleaned up soon.

My question is, how in the world did they even know about it? And a fine? Really? The only way they could possibly see it is either by aircraft or walk to the backyard up to the stone fence and look over. Hmm, maybe a neighbor did it so he can use it while the house is empty? Luckily we did put padlocks on the gates after they cleaned it in case any kids had their eye on it.