Ingenious. Turn the pump off, turn on the sprinkler system then open the valve... Now your filling your pool from the irrigation water saving you money as irrigation water is cheaper than municipal d inking water.
Umm but your introducing poor water from a lake/pond/ or well water source. Also this system was not plumbed in a way that your filling pool from irrigation water source… it’s plumbed to return pool treated water to the lawn which will kill the lawn. In both cases something will be negatively affected. Not smart either way but to each is own, Do you.
What if the sprinklers were turned onto the house and roof incase of wildfire? Just watched the news, places down in California. Nothing left but the pool.
So, this will sound strange now, but we’ve done the same thing. We don’t have grass around our house at all and our pool is 250’000 gallons. So, around our pool, behind the house and between the house and neighbor fencing like in this video where the equipment is, we have all covered in concrete so we connected little sprinklers to suck from pool and turn on every 1 hour and spray for 30 mins to cool down the concrete because it gets so hot that you can’t walk on it.
Sometimes if you don’t think of something yourself, it’s “stupid”. On other occasions, and when & if the pool is overfilled with rain water and say perhaps, the chemical levels of the pool have been quite neutralized, and if this happens with some regularity, the water otherwise sent down the sewage pipes could perform some useful purpose-with some imagination and ingenuity-as the home owner demonstrated.
You’re dead wrong man. This is pretty genius if it was done for the right reasons and was used properly. Keeping CYA levels in check while taking advantage of the convenience of stabilized chlorine ( e.g tablet feeders) is a great reason to irrigate the lawn every once in a while with pool water, as long as you do it when the FC drops low enough. Perfect way to save on both your chlorine needs and your irrigation bill. I’d implement the same if plumbing it was more convenient.
Oh yeah… let me spend money in keeping the pool well balanced, keep my cya in check to have a stabilized chlorine and irrigate My lawn when the the FC drops low enough!!! What level FC should it go to? Stabilized chlorine is to extend the duration of time FC last in pools. CYA is used to reduce the burn off of chlorine from high UV rays of the Sun. So your saying that it’s a good idea to take water from the pool ( where you are spending money in chemicals to balance and chlorinate the water to keep it clean) and reduce the water level in order to water your lawn in all the zones around your property. Then the pool will need to be refilled with the homes water source because you lowered the pools level just to water lawn (because the pool water, in your opinion, is better to use for the lawn) and then have to spend more money to chemically rebalance the pool because the water was diluted due to the water fill to regain proper water level. So spending money in chemicals initially to maintain pool water, then spend money running water to refill pool to get back to proper water level, and then spend money to chemically rebalance pool again because you diluted the pool. Yeah… ok sir
@@EliteSwimmingPoolsTV You know what CYA is useful for at least, but I don’t think much past that. Ideal level for CYA is 30-50ppm, right? With a 20k gal pool, you’d go through roughly 5 lbs of trichlor every 2-3 weeks. That 5 lbs of trichlor just pumped your CYA up another 15 ppm. Oh and that is just for trichlor… dichlor is far worse. So it takes, what, a month of stabilized chlorine use to push your CYA from below the range of ideal levels to above it? Only realistic way you are getting those levels back down is with a partial refill. So yeah, it would be pretty convenient to do that partial refill by dispersing it with an irrigation system every so often. I am NOT implying that pool water is better than your homes water for your lawn, as you stated. I am just saying that if you need to do partial refills to reduce CYA, recycling the water as irrigation is a no-brainer. Ideal FC to do that is as low as possible, especially if you do it regularly. But it often only takes two days for me to fall under 1 ppm. Other than going the SWG route, liquid chlorine is the way to avoid the CYA increase problem. But constantly lugging around and adding gallon jugs is more time consuming and more costly. Cal-Hypo has issues of it’s own. Is this a system that someone clueless on pool chemistry should do? Of course not. That’s why no pool builder would ever do something like it. I would assume/hope this was implemented by someone who knew what they were doing and doing it properly.
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Every house call you gotta expect the unexpected. Great video man
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Ingenious. Turn the pump off, turn on the sprinkler system then open the valve... Now your filling your pool from the irrigation water saving you money as irrigation water is cheaper than municipal d inking water.
Exactly my thoughts. Glad you said it first.
Umm but your introducing poor water from a lake/pond/ or well water source. Also this system was not plumbed in a way that your filling pool from irrigation water source… it’s plumbed to return pool treated water to the lawn which will kill the lawn. In both cases something will be negatively affected. Not smart either way but to each is own, Do you.
The backwash water from the pool should be fairly nutrient rich. Really doesn't seem like a bad way to use the water.
This is very popular in Arizona. It helps keep the minerals down in the pool when you have hard water
Didn’t know that. But here in FL not common or ever done.
What if the sprinklers were turned onto the house and roof incase of wildfire? Just watched the news, places down in California. Nothing left but the pool.
Lol. Good comment. But No. 😂
So, this will sound strange now, but we’ve done the same thing. We don’t have grass around our house at all and our pool is 250’000 gallons. So, around our pool, behind the house and between the house and neighbor fencing like in this video where the equipment is, we have all covered in concrete so we connected little sprinklers to suck from pool and turn on every 1 hour and spray for 30 mins to cool down the concrete because it gets so hot that you can’t walk on it.
That’s crazy
Sometimes if you don’t think of something yourself, it’s “stupid”. On other occasions, and when & if the pool is overfilled with rain water and say perhaps, the chemical levels of the pool have been quite neutralized, and if this happens with some regularity, the water otherwise sent down the sewage pipes could perform some useful purpose-with some imagination and ingenuity-as the home owner demonstrated.
Miami shhhhht! Lol
Yup
Bro, I’m just gonna go and say it. Cuban engineering my friend.
You’re dead wrong man. This is pretty genius if it was done for the right reasons and was used properly. Keeping CYA levels in check while taking advantage of the convenience of stabilized chlorine ( e.g tablet feeders) is a great reason to irrigate the lawn every once in a while with pool water, as long as you do it when the FC drops low enough. Perfect way to save on both your chlorine needs and your irrigation bill. I’d implement the same if plumbing it was more convenient.
Oh yeah… let me spend money in keeping the pool well balanced, keep my cya in check to have a stabilized chlorine and irrigate
My lawn when the the FC drops low enough!!!
What level FC should it go to?
Stabilized chlorine is to extend the duration of time FC last in pools. CYA is used to reduce the burn off of chlorine from high UV rays of the Sun.
So your saying that it’s a good idea to take water from the pool ( where you are spending money in chemicals to balance and chlorinate the water to keep it clean) and reduce the water level in order to water your lawn in all the zones around your property.
Then the pool will need to be refilled with the homes water source because you lowered the pools level just to water lawn (because the pool water, in your opinion, is better to use for the lawn) and then have to spend more money to chemically rebalance the pool because the water was diluted due to the water fill to regain proper water level.
So spending money in chemicals initially to maintain pool water, then spend money running water to refill pool to get back to proper water level, and then spend money to chemically rebalance pool again because you diluted the pool. Yeah… ok sir
Your dead wrong sir
@@EliteSwimmingPoolsTV You know what CYA is useful for at least, but I don’t think much past that. Ideal level for CYA is 30-50ppm, right? With a 20k gal pool, you’d go through roughly 5 lbs of trichlor every 2-3 weeks. That 5 lbs of trichlor just pumped your CYA up another 15 ppm. Oh and that is just for trichlor… dichlor is far worse.
So it takes, what, a month of stabilized chlorine use to push your CYA from below the range of ideal levels to above it?
Only realistic way you are getting those levels back down is with a partial refill. So yeah, it would be pretty convenient to do that partial refill by dispersing it with an irrigation system every so often. I am NOT implying that pool water is better than your homes water for your lawn, as you stated. I am just saying that if you need to do partial refills to reduce CYA, recycling the water as irrigation is a no-brainer.
Ideal FC to do that is as low as possible, especially if you do it regularly. But it often only takes two days for me to fall under 1 ppm.
Other than going the SWG route, liquid chlorine is the way to avoid the CYA increase problem. But constantly lugging around and adding gallon jugs is more time consuming and more costly. Cal-Hypo has issues of it’s own.
Is this a system that someone clueless on pool chemistry should do? Of course not. That’s why no pool builder would ever do something like it. I would assume/hope this was implemented by someone who knew what they were doing and doing it properly.
Sometimes you also need to bring the water level in the pool down, this is a sustainable way to do it. I agree that it’s clever. Not stupid.
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You can fix a lot of things but just can’t fix stupid lol that’s crazy!!!!
Yup
Auto fill into potable water