How to plumb my pool

[farmerjo]

Did you do a bucket test to check your pump output.

[carlyai]

Did you do a bucket test to check your pump output.

You mean in litres per minute or something like that. No I haven't done that, but it's just about getting the flow controls sorted.

On outlet, I can have the three skimmers on full, the main drain throttled 3/4 and the 5 inlets on full, or the 5 inlets throttled 1/2 and the waterfall on full. The water is crystal clear without the waterfall on.

I'm just trying (not very hard at the moment) to see why I need the waterfall on at all, except for meditational benefits.

In the night time with the changing color pool lights and the waterfall on it's really pleasant.


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[RichCor]

Any updated pics of the finished project, with requisite Thai beauties sitting around the poolside or otherwise getting drenched by the waterfall...  or did you ban them as Naam probably has so he can get on with his solitary invigorating daily health swim?

[sappersrest]

By the sounds of it you have got the right idea  , if the design is right there should really not be a lot of visible movement on the surface,.

If you feel really brave you could do a dye test with potassium permanganate , you must have no chlorine in the pool though.

video the resulting flow patterns and post on here. Sod the bathing beauties its flow characteristics that does it for me.

[farmerjo]

14 hours ago, carlyai said:

You mean in litres per minute or something like that. No I haven't done that, but it's just about getting the flow controls sorted.

On outlet, I can have the three skimmers on full, the main drain throttled 3/4 and the 5 inlets on full, or the 5 inlets throttled 1/2 and the waterfall on full. The water is crystal clear without the waterfall on.

I'm just trying (not very hard at the moment) to see why I need the waterfall on at all, except for meditational benefits.

In the night time with the changing color pool lights and the waterfall on it's really pleasant.


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Hi Carlyai,

Hope you are starting to enjoy the fruits of all the hard work,everyone appreciates it.  

One more question if i may,what are you using for your pump set point,a pressure guage in the system or listenening for cavitation.

[carlyai]

Hi Carlyai,
Hope you are starting to enjoy the fruits of all the hard work,everyone appreciates it.  
One more question if i may,what are you using for your pump set point,a pressure guage in the system or listenening for cavitation.

Hi mate, the pump is not pressure switched, it's on or off.

The time switch switches the contactor and pump plus the chlorinator on at 0500 and off at 0800. My first swim at 0600, in this weather invigorating. The pool is pretty clear by then, but running the pump and chlorinator 3hr in the morning and 3 hr in the evening...1600 to 1900 hr.

Backed of the chlorinator to 50% and still too much chlorine being produced.

Is the season of strong winds here, so the outside surface of the pool is usually full of dust, bird feathers etc, but cleans up wonderfully.
The other morning about 0600 hr when SWMBO getting ready for the morning run.

One thing that has pi@#$d me of is the stainless guys that made the ladder. He used ordinary dina bolts or loxins to secure the railing to the pool wall. I said at the time it would rust, but he said no worried, and the rust stain is now visible on the white grout under the attachment.

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[carlyai]

Any updated pics of the finished project, with requisite Thai beauties sitting around the poolside or otherwise getting drenched by the waterfall...  or did you ban them as Naam probably has so he can get on with his solitary invigorating daily health swim?

I could round up some farming girls with 15 layers of clothes on eating som tam and sticky rice while sipping on lao kaw, that be OK?

 

Tilers finish around the pool next week, and fence goes in next Wednesday. My son in Bangkok said he'd pay for the fence, as I'd be ages welding it up. So in typical form, SWMBO, upgraded the gates to stainless. At least I got in and painted the fence supports early so it wasn't painted fluorescent green or orange and purple.

 

I think Naam probably has a lot of fun in that beautiful inside heated pool. And he lives in a place where the Isaan farmers daughters are very attractive.

I think he's shy but. [emoji848]

 

 

[carlyai]

By the sounds of it you have got the right idea  , if the design is right there should really not be a lot of visible movement on the surface,.
If you feel really brave you could do a dye test with potassium permanganate , you must have no chlorine in the pool though.
video the resulting flow patterns and post on here. Sod the bathing beauties its flow characteristics that does it for me.

I don't feel that brave!

Still got a couple of small leaks in the pump room, and the one at the non-return valve is a real bugger. The non-return valve has two blue plastic female threaded sections that screw into two male connections to the pump and filter. Already been out 2 times with more and more white tape, but still not enough. Next time success?


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[sappersrest]

For ensuring you have the correct flow. these are  a good retro fit flow meter.. Also a good idea to fit gauges before and after filter this gives  you a good indicator to detect how you filter is performing .Also useful for commissioning .A COPY OF THE PUMPS PERFORMANCE CURVE IS ESSENTIAL

 

http://blue-white.com/blue-white-products/f-300-pitot-tube-acrylic/

[carlyai]

For ensuring you have the correct flow. these are  a good retro fit flow meter.. Also a good idea to fit gauges before and after filter this gives  you a good indicator to detect how you filter is performing .Also useful for commissioning .A COPY OF THE PUMPS PERFORMANCE CURVE IS ESSENTIAL

 

http://blue-white.com/blue-white-products/f-300-pitot-tube-acrylic/

Yes thanks for that. I was thinking of putting in a flow meter on the keg of beer I was going to buy from this online site. [emoji38].

 

Flow meter good idea for the pool.

Thanks for the link.

 

I just put a pressure gauge on my baby house pump to show me what's going on after looking for an underground pipe leak. Of cause it was under the cement and tiles.

 

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That's not my plumbing installation, in case you're getting ready to have a go at me. I just fix the (when the cat's away, the mice will act like rats)stuff ups.

Never leave your house building...doesn't matter whose dying. [emoji26]