J-Pro

My father and I own a pool company near Philadelphia and I just wanted to say that my heart goes out to you. Unfortunately for my industry there are a lot of so called builders that do sub par work. As far as your pool stands now from what I see it was built with the cheapest materials and in the cheapest way possible. i.e. the pipe that they used to plumb you pool is called flex pipe. The problem with flex pipe is that over time chlorine breaks it down and starts to blister the pipe untill it becomes clogged. The only place you really have to worry about this happening is at the skimmer and this is only if you are chlorinating your pool with tabs in the skimmer basket. If you are I suggest you or have someone install an in-line chlorinator at the equipment pad and if the equipment is plumbed in flex get rid of it and re-install everything in rigid sch. 40 PVC (make sure the fittings used and the pipe itself is made for pressure!!) Also if you have a heater, make sure a corrosion resistant check valve is plumbed in after the heater and before the chlorinator. (this is also required before the cell if you have a chlorine genorator.) Also, the actual filtration equipment they sold you is not the greatest. Now don't think that you need to replace it all now, I'm just saying that there is better equipment out there for the money. As for your leak. It could be a # of things and I would love to help you but I would need to ask you some questions to pin point where you could be leaking from. Shoot me an e-mail if you want and I'll either give you my phone # or my im name and I can talk you through some simple ways of determining whether the leak is comming from the plumbing, liner, light, etc. Again, I feel so sorry about your experience. It's contractors like the one you hired that give my industry a bad name. And they are a dime a dozen unfortunately. e-mail me at jproietto@comcast.net. Sincerely, Joe