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    You also want to check your pump basket, and if you can reach it, the throat of the impeller, to make sure it's not jammed up with leaves and twigs that slipped round the pump basket.

    If you have a multiport valve on your filter, with a "recirculate" position, you can test to see if the problem is the filter or the pump, but putting the valve in that position. If you get normal circulation, the problem is the filter. If you still have weak circulation, the problem is the pump.

    By the way, I hate addresses manufactured by builders and real estate agents. Obviously, England's got a leg up, having addresses that are 100s of years old. But, still, living next to "Polecat Woods" is nice! In British English, is a "polecat" a type of skunk? I'd assumed the term was an Americanism.

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    Hi thanks will check these points.

    As for your last sentence my name is Derek which has been shortened to del[as only fools and horses the tv programme]and I am a carpenter namely a chippy in Uk. No a polecat is a type of ferret used to flush rabbits out of holes!!!P.S. We don`t have any skunks in the Uk nearest thing is a banker!!
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    Ok. That makes sense -- a lot of our names for common animals were brought over and then applied to any likely candidate! There are ferrets in the US, but they are much less common than skunks. It made nonsense out of some nursery rhymes, since our "robin red breast" actually has a rusty orange chest, and is a thrush, unrelated to the true robin you have.

    "Chippy" -- never heard that one, at least with that meaning. I won't say what I thought it was.

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    My grandfather used the term chippy as slang for women!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TomC View Post
    My grandfather used the term chippy as slang for women!
    Uh. yeah. that's the one. But he probably didn't call them that where they could hear!

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    Nope he didn't, he would just say it to his grandsons. He had a bit of an accent and for the longest time I though he was saying chickies. When I was a kid we used the slang word chicks, and I thought he was just saying that word with an accent.

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    Well, I'll put it this way: if more than about 0.05% here knew what it meant, at least in some circles, I'd delete it as a forum policy violation!

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