he had to have the pool

[ChooksinChoppers]

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freezing cold

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send it here! This time of year it is hard to get cold water out of a faucet..pools are warm baths and we put pool covers on to keep them cool! You would appreciate your pool down here!​

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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I thought so too, until one day when I accidentally left our pool filter on "waste" when I turned the power off. By the next morning, our pool was dangerously low. After a meltdown thinking I had torn our liner, I realized the filter setting was the problem. And this is an inground pool.

Interesting. I've never worked on above ground pools before. On the big in-ground pools if you haven't turned all the valves to open them for backwashing, killing the motor just halts it all. We routinely turn off the motors for swim meets because our return flow jets are so powerful that they shove the kids back away from the wall. The poor little kids have to swim upstream to finish their races.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I thought so too, until one day when I accidentally left our pool filter on "waste" when I turned the power off. By the next morning, our pool was dangerously low. After a meltdown thinking I had torn our liner, I realized the filter setting was the problem. And this is an inground pool.

Interesting. I've never worked on above ground pools before. On the big in-ground pools if you haven't turned all the valves to open them for backwashing, killing the motor just halts it all. We routinely turn off the motors for swim meets because our return flow jets are so powerful that they shove the kids back away from the wall. The poor little kids have to swim upstream to finish their races.

That does not sound legal. Legalities for public pools are very specific; especially SAFETY issues.

Reference the Virginia Graham Baker Act. This is FEDERAL legislation affecting ALL PUBLIC (and semi-public) POOLS in the United States. Input flow of water directly relates to drain suction. You DO NOT want kids (or anyone else) to be held by suction force to the drains. Worst case, they can drown; not certain if its any better, they can be disemboweled!!! There are documented cases of BOTH types of injury.

Check your local county city ordinances on running the pump & filter during operating hours (almost certainly required) for health reasons.

 

[mikensara]

he called me this morning and told me do not touch the pool I told him "no worries I have no plans to" seems i took apart something I shouldnt have

I hate the pool

 

[pdsavage]

Rules in my house you want it you take care of it or it goes bye bye....

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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We up the chlorine levels before the meet and run the system right up until the first event. It is then turned back on the minute the meet ends. Levels are tested and stay within the required boundaries. We turn it off because the push of water in only two lanes is not fair to those swimming in those lanes. The pool is regularly inspected by both the pool management company and the health department. It generally scores between 95 and 98 on health department inspections.

Because of that law, all public pools have been required to change to new drain covers that prevent them from being completely obstructed. The style of the drain cover prevents that sort of suction to build up. Trust me. I am well aware of the potential for problems if suction builds up. A child at the pool I swam at when I was a kid (aeons ago) was in fact disemboweled in the kiddie pool because she sat on the drain cover. It was horrible. The design of the new covers prevent this.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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We up the chlorine levels before the meet and run the system right up until the first event. It is then turned back on the minute the meet ends. Levels are tested and stay within the required boundaries. We turn it off because the push of water in only two lanes is not fair to those swimming in those lanes. The pool is regularly inspected by both the pool management company and the health department. It generally scores between 95 and 98 on health department inspections.

Because of that law, all public pools have been required to change to new drain covers that prevent them from being completely obstructed. The style of the drain cover prevents that sort of suction to build up. Trust me. I am well aware of the potential for problems if suction builds up. A child at the pool I swam at when I was a kid (aeons ago) was in fact disemboweled in the kiddie pool because she sat on the drain cover. It was horrible. The design of the new covers prevent this.

It's more than just drain covers. They also need either two drains or to have a pressure sensing system installed that shuts off the motor if pressure beyond a certain level is detected. For us (HOA) installing the pressure sensing system was the less expensive option. Drain covers were the issue in the recent recall, though; supposedly 75% were inadequate at meeting the standards required by Virginia Graham Baker.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

The big pool has two drains at the bottom of the deep end about 10 feet away from each other and 10' down. The kids are forbidden to play down around them. The baby pool only has one though. I will talk to the pool contact and make sure they check that. It has a large drain cover that pulls from the side all around. The baby pool has no pressure problems though.

A pressure sensing system is interesting. I will pass that on to the HOA as well.


Sorry we hijacked your thread, OP.