Does anyone have experience with any of the automatic/electronic pool monitoring systems such as Water Guru or Sutro? Are they worth the money? Pool Forum Statistics: Posted by Klemmson — Sun 06 Aug, 2023 17:36 ..read more

Does anyone have experience with any of the automatic/electronic pool monitoring systems such as Water Guru or Sutro? Are they worth the money? Pool Forum Statistics: Posted by Klemmson — Sun 06 Aug, 2023 13:58 ..read more

So glad you have it sorted, no skimmer basket? Are you plugging the vac pipe directly into the skimmer port, better via a vacuum plate and retain the skimmer basket as you can scrunch up a cotton towel for the really fine debris. Hopefully you can see how the water restriction can also be the weir plate sticking in the skimmer as Dennis originally suggested. Pool Forum Statistics: Posted by Teapot1 — Thu 03 Aug, 2023 01:43 ..read more

That's great I wouldn't have thought about that How did the leaves get past the skimmer basket Did your wife not mention that she had lost her lighter Pool Forum Statistics: Posted by Denniswiseman — Thu 03 Aug, 2023 01:35 ..read more

Just an update to tell you all how it resolved itself. I couldn't find the air leak, because there was none. I couldn't find anything wrong with the pump, despite taking it apart, because there was no issue with it. Tech came out and he had a high powered industrial blower with him, that he used to "flush" the skimmer pipe. On the fourth go or so, alternating ends, we managed to flush out a lighter.. more correctly, my wife's lighter that she apparently managed to drop into the skimmer line the one time she hooked up the vacuum on her own. The lighter, probably stuck in the last 90 degree be ..read more

Teapot1 wrote: Air being thinner than water finds its way in and as you have heard hiss then it is quite possible as it takes a fair bit to draw water up so even the tiniest leak allows air to be drawn in as it takes the path of least resistance. Keep going you'll find it. The hiss is air leaking out, not in. I was talking about that it happens when I relieve the pressure on the pump-basket-lid when the pump is not active. English isn't my first language so I may have expressed myself in a bit of a weird way perhaps. As in, if I turn off the pump and look inside pump basket I can see the o ..read more

Air being thinner than water finds its way in and as you have heard hiss then it is quite possible as it takes a fair bit to draw water up so even the tiniest leak allows air to be drawn in as it takes the path of least resistance. Keep going you'll find it. Pool Forum Statistics: Posted by Teapot1 — Sat 29 Jul, 2023 15:06 ..read more

Teapot1 wrote: They are all simple systems, very little has changed in half a millennium, we still see the same issues. One reason why I like putting the pump below the water line, the other is efficiency. You have an open pipe at the skimmer, a length of pipe to a pump. It draws in water as a self priming setup but then you run out of water through a weir plate restriction or a blockage in the pipe to the pump, then it draws in air and it stops pumping until some water is restored to the skimmer and the pump can try again. Only two possibilities, not enough water or an air leak and the possi ..read more

They are all simple systems, very little has changed in half a millennium, we still see the same issues. One reason why I like putting the pump below the water line, the other is efficiency. You have an open pipe at the skimmer, a length of pipe to a pump. It draws in water as a self priming setup but then you run out of water through a weir plate restriction or a blockage in the pipe to the pump, then it draws in air and it stops pumping until some water is restored to the skimmer and the pump can try again. Only two possibilities, not enough water or an air leak and the possible causes we ha ..read more

Teapot1 wrote: Filter is on the pressure side so wont be your problem. If the pool is going green add chlorine, you dont need a pump for that. Not being there as a second pair of eyes we can only make suggestions but they are based on hundreds of similar cases, air breaks the draw of water and you have eliminated some possibilities, keep looking including cracks in the pump housing or pipe leaks. Pressure testing the line if you can. I'll do a work over tomorrow again. The thing is, there isn't a whole lot of piping that could even had the leaks. I don't have any pictures of it right now ..read more