Swimming Pool Main Drain Valve

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Swimming pool main drain valve.

Only 16 left in stock order soon. 3 it is not recommended to drain a swimming pool through the backwash valve. The damage to your pool pump will normally many times the cost of renting a pump. Opening the main drain and then closing the cleaner valve.

All valves open will not hurt the equipment but the cleaner will not operate correctly. Fibropool 2 inch 3 way swimming pool valve. While sucking from the main drain and putting the water down the backwash line will work in some scenarios it puts your pool pump at risk of losing prime and running dry. A normal pool valve setting would have the skimmer valve s fully open main drain half open and spa drain fully closed.

4 6 out of 5 stars 128. A 2 port valve essentially acts as a 1 way in 1 way out valve allowing for water flow to be shut off completely or to restrict the flow of water for a lower flow rate. But locating them isn t actually the problem with swimming pool main drains. Skip to main content us.

Never main drain skimmer cleaner all open at the same time. The most requested swimming pool valve on the market is the jandy diverter valve. So it is either main drain skimmer or cleaner skimmer. If the cleaner is taken out of the pool the valves will be set differently.

How to set pool valves. Jandy diverter pool valves divert water and are available with two or three ports. The problem is that they can be very dangerous pieces of equipment in the pool and that many pool owners don t realize it.