Water Park - Restarting Pumps and Filters After Extended Shutdown

Hey Team,
Today, Big Swole and myself are walking around going through the procedures on restart of the pump and filters after we had an extended shutdown.

Thanks for joining me!
TPG

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[OnTheHonda]

Autistic knowledge but horrific teacher! Knows every bolt of this insane system, but cannot convey the knowledge. Place has no standard procedure, no checklist. No bookkeeping: “Why is it (chlorine!!) turned off? It shouldn’t be turned off. Let’s turn it on!”

[paeve]

I feel like I know enough now about your systems in Houston just from these videos to be hired and need almost no training 😂😂

[jfwfreo]

One thing I have learned from watching these videos is that even a "simple" water slide (e.g. the fairly basic looking body slides I see at some local council owned pools in Australia) isn't all that simple under the hood

[lenjames]

Fascinating...how many water parks I've been to and always wondered how the pump room was layed out. Thanks for the tour.

[Bacontr]

Randomly found in my feed, but always game to learn how stuff like this works behind the scenes. Super fascinating and way more complex that I originally thought

[CajunJosh]

Just out of curiosity. Couldn't you install some flexible braided line or any type of flexible line for that matter to the discharge ends of your air purge valves and just hang that down low with a second valve at the end. Then you could just walk around and open those hanging purge valves instead of walking around with the stick?

[IceColdGeico]

Fascinating. Amazing how much it takes to keep a pool/waterpark clean.

Suggestion, though i know nothing: It seems to me that with a little judicious planning, pipework and valves, one could use the chemloop pumps (or other pumps) to stop the system taking on air when shut down.

[Novashadow]

Is it weird that this video got put in my feed after I just got back from a water park trip that ended due to the facility undergoing all of this exact maintenance! So cool!

[EnosShenk]

You know, this is the content I love on youtube. A dude doing a skilled job that I've never really considered someone has to think about. Super interesting.

[Evan-bcnb]

Throw some barbed fittings on those bleeders and run tubing to your floor drain. Keeps you dry. I'm used to working with contaminated water. The pool water is not so bad to get a shower with.

[creativejamieplays]

In the case of something to do with chemicals being turned off, would it not be better to ask around to see if anyone knows why it is off before turning it on?

[cooperwilkes]

Can you do a video on what happens if someone fell in the surge pit and why is it not good to run pools over limit on water level.

[drewking]

I sell valves for a living. i know how they work, and what they are made of, but i never get to see them in action. Super cool to see them in service and not on my shelf in inventory haha! Awesome video man!

[watsisbuttndo]

Here we have an example of the engineer who designed this system not actually coming down and having a look at how it has to be operated.

[randalljames]

Oh fun on pumps... We ran a waterpark for years.. Seasonal shutdown and restarts are always a can of worms.. We had three 36, 000 GPM pumps (run off big natural gas Cats) and a 28, 000 GPM filter pump.. (1.5MG pool) .. Control systems seemed more a headache for us.. Nice setup there..

[lorenzop]

that loop of pipe that comes up from the outlet of the pump, do you open that air vent valve on top when the system is turned off? if you let air in there, that should break the siphon, draining the filter back into the surge pit. may need to do the same on the outlet of the filter too, break the siphon.

[hanssenjones]

@ThePoolGuy ....Why not run some pex or sch 80 pipe from those ball valves (that you use to purge the air) over and dump into pool so you dont get the area wet when you purge the air out? If you dont want to get chemicals in the pool when you purge the lines, a hub drain with some lines ran up there would help so the water can run into there instead on your head or on that GFI wall outlet that is close by.

[nightwings]

I'm surprised you don't use air relief caps (I don't know the trade name); I see them all the time in HVAC to vent air automatically without dumping more than a spritz of water

[Chris_In_Texas]

31:31 I am surprised that you don't have more or any that I saw, sticky label arrows on the pipes for flow directions and/or pipe purpose. I know that once you are an old hat at things its easy and second nature, but for newbies or other less technical people it would be nice to have.

Back when I was doing industrial controls in car plants, factories and super tankers, just about all facilities we would go into would have the big sticker wraps around all the piping to tell what was in them and normal direction of flow that you can see and read from standing location. Most would have a laminated cheat sheet of all the valves and piping that were all labeled as well. Each valve would have number with size and function. All the PLC display screens would then have labels as well with valve numbers etc. The larger the facility, the easier it made things just to remember all the exact piping and valve arrangements. Just helps that one day when your a little tired, or just having a bit of old person syndrome. Also one of those things if the guy that knew it all, got hit by a bus tomorrow, things could still function ok. (Just a figure of speech people, no people were harmed in this example! 🤦‍♂) Keep up the good work sir, brings back a lot of memories from those days, thanks for the walk-a-rounds from North Texas! 👍🤠

[NUTTER]

Hey fella
If this is how you do your training with new guys
Your instructions are clear and precise I'll be very happy to work with you !!
Where do I sign up !! 👋