How To Install A Pool Overflow Drain
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I've been building a gunite pool thinking that I tin do this with all the info on this site and the web and so I began some time agone in this quest. My problem is when I received the skimmers, the instruction canvass noted that at that place was an auxiliary port on the skimmer only information technology didn't state to use this equally an overflow. I know, you are all thinking what a dope (I've had that same idea many times).
So I didn't pipage for an overflow but now wish to have 1. The physical deck is poured but the tile isn't installed on the deck however so I tin can cut the physical and pipe into the bleed line that I take for the trench drains. Only I'm concerned that I may cut through the bonding wire as information technology runs right where the concrete needs to be removed. And I don't think the bonding wire is buried every bit it was attached to the wire mesh in this surface area. If I did cut the bonding wire, I could chip out the concrete and splice / reconnect with new lugs only I would prefer to keep the wire intact.
And another concern I have is will I be able to make clean the pvc port on the skimmer well enough for the bleed line to attach to the skimmer.
Is at that place annihilation bachelor that has a sensor that can be installed in the skimmer and open an overflow valve at the pump area? Like to the remote autofills (another item that I didn't install when I should have).
I idea about forgetting the overflow and but try to drain the pool manually but I live in Florida and nosotros tin get 3-4 inches of pelting often. If I'thousand home, no problem simply if not, so the pool overflows.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks
- April iv, 2007
- 10,077
- SW Indiana
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- 21000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Liquid Chlorine
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Welcome to TFP.
3-4" of pelting won't hurt the pool. Information technology will only make full to the superlative of the pool, and even that won't injure anything other than the skimmer not working to clean the surface. If you get a real downpour such as a hurricane, the more h2o the pool has, the amend to proceed it from floating. I wouldn't worry about an overflow. Evaporation takes intendance of most of it.
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+1 what john said. I have never needed an overflow in 8 years. If I always do, I'll pump to waste.
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John, Dave,
Thanks for the replies. Non having to install the overflow would be a blessing only I've also read other posts on this site where folks are wanting to prevent the pool from overflowing in society to prevent water from getting back backside the pool walls, leaking betwixt the coping and the bond beam. Is that a big concern?
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If the pool is outdoors, everything about the puddle volition become wet, inside and out. Water getting behind the wall and into the coping and bail beam is not a big bargain, it happens all the time for people in high water table areas.
An overflow is prissy to have in certain situations, merely it besides increases complication and the odds of having a problem. It doesn't solve whatsoever disquisitional problems, it just saves you the tiny effort of draining water from the pool when the water level gets to high, which in about places is non very oftentimes.
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