Cost of adding an 'auto-fill' to pool
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Comments (14)Five years ago, we put in a simple vinyl liner salt water "play pool" for about $28,000 including gas heater, fencing, landscaping and restoration of the walkway between my neighbour's and our house. (Toronto) Our kids, 7-13, used it for two weeks and that was that. I went in once and almost drowned, as I had forgotten how to swim in the 40 years or so since I had last been in a bathing suit. The new owners left the pool covered for the first two years, then spent $30K+ landscaping the remaining backyard; the pool is open as a water feature. Surprised they haven't turned it into a fish pond. Ditto my former neighbour who now blames me for convincing him to build a pool. Huh! This post was edited by worthy on Mon, Aug 25, 14 at 1:24...See MoreAutoFill & AutoDrain Question
Comments (17)Drain and fill line ports are separate. Autofill to the sprinkler system as a source is something I can see but there are special valves to prevent back flow required in case the float valve fails. The drain is just a port that is an inch or two higher than the correct water level. That needs to be connected to a piece of pipe that is pitched down slightly to the sump. 15 feet is too far to tunnel. The drain port in the autfill tank must be plugged or water will get behind the pool wall, creating potential washouts and loss of support for the pool wall and surrounding area. A way to manually lower the pool will need to be used. That is the faucet at your cartridge filter. It works but is slow and doesn't give you the option to vacuum to waste. A 3way Jandy valve over the pump's discharge can direct water to the filter or the other port. Attaching a pipe and barbed fitting to that port allows you to connect a backwash hose, giving you a fast way to lower the pool and the vacuum to waste option you would use to get rid of an algae bloom. You don't want dead algae vacuumed into the cartridges. Its a PITA to clean them after. Scott...See MoreResidential pools auto refill?
Comments (16)Golfgeek and natural_one, Out of curiousity, can I assume that ya'll don't build pools where summer rains and the weather are a factor? I don't know how low the water goes before the autofill kicks in, but managing it myself means seeing that it's about 2" low (3" low and the skimmers don't work) so I look at the weather and if we have say, a 60% chance of rain (afternoon thunderstorms), then I'll hold off. With autofill, I'd guess that it would fill up, and then that afternoon the overflow drain would get used - a great waste of water. I know there are people who don't give a hoot about water management, but I'm a "green" person and do try to conserve, plus the city water here is expensive! I live with my pool full-time here in FL so I have a pretty good idea of the weather patterns and what's in store for us. If I lived in AZ where the dry air and hot sun are evaporating the pool daily, then the autofill would be nearly mandatory. So I think the real answer here is to find out exactly where the OP lives....See MoreAuto Fill Valve - Do They Drain Automatically?
Comments (5)Thanks for info..when I look at my autofill I see two holes at the bottom..one is where the "bob" sits and one is, I'm guessing, where the water flows from the pool for the bob to sense..my actual overflow is separate. It sounds like then that the auto fill usually only acts to fill..any drainage is a result of the overflow. Correct?...See Moreducter
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