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Today, I got a professional to install my old Flojet pump for me. The beauty of this install is no chemical is wasted because the pump is constantly leaking. Especially when it is being used in a bay. It goes straight in the tank. Maybe that is why the Flojet says "Small Leak".
I had a presoak hose bust in a bay. The solenoid for air and chemical both got crap in them. If you wanted free presoak it was good. But I thought I should fix it.
William, created the main copper manifold for replacing the pvc today. Everything works perfectly. Which is good. He also put in a pressure regulator and removed the backflow preventer. We were thinking the backflow preventer was causing the water pulsating. We were wrong though. It was the fact that the float value did not have a hose on it. Oh well. At least everything works.
Well, someone did break one hydrominder. I had to replace the body today. Only one thing breaking when repairing everything is pretty good.
Error message "CK L COIN DETCTR" just reset.
Fixed my vacuum problem. It was a burnt fuse (agc-5).
It must have been a little windy last night. But it makes you think. If it was something better then just "Fine" would it do better then a "Fine Pool" in the wind. We know what happens to them.
Today, I decided to cut off the old PVC and replace the whole thing. I should have just replaced the first "T". Then I used slip bushings in my plan, bad idea. William started helping around the big blue shaved down coupling. It did not fit.
I installed the old backflow preventer back on. Then we turned on the water. The water started pulsating very badly. We watched when two "T’s" broke loose and you know the rest of the story. It was late and we were in Wylam so we closed the wash and cut the power to the pumps and ran away.
Error message "CK L COIN DETCTR" just reset.
Well the plan was to J-B Stick Weld the PVC and fix the leak. This was probably one of the worse ideas all year. But it was inedible.
I tried adding J-B once and it did not help. Then the second time I added more and it still did not help. It seemed to leak even more.
Then after inspecting the PVC with the water off I tried to turn the water back on. But the water bib was broken then I started to mess with the water bib before the backflow preventer. Then that water bib was broken. Then William came over to help and he turned the main water bib and guess what happened.
THREE WATER BIBS BROKEN IN ONE DAY. Talking about crappy luck.
Then the water meter was buried with dirt and roots. Also, the concrete housing shifted to make it very hard to turn the water off.
But William did save the day and got everything working correctly. The setup now has all ball valves this time. But there was one last problem. I installed my new used backflow preventer that I purchased. Well, the backflow preventer leaks like crazy. So William and I decided to give up for the day and I will replace the backflow preventer tomorrow.
I guess I stole $5 today.