The Adventures of an aging Poolboy

[Filterer]

Does any water flow past the plug at all, if it does get some heavy duty fishing line and attatch a very small weight, or maybe something like a piece of paper, just enough to give it enough resistance to flow with the water. When it comes out the other end tie on somethin rather large but small enought ot fit through the pipes and bends, then reel the sucker out!

[The_Dover]

Must

find

the

plug

[WRT]

MDU - like your suggestion with the vac and the string. Will give that a go and see if we can pull the plug back through.

Filterer - I'd say that your right and phoning in the experts may be the only way to go in the end, but if there are a few free or cheap alternatives, then we'll have to give them a go first. Unfortunately there is a reason why Dad's having to sell up the house and it aint cause he's run out of cupboards to keep his spare cash!

On the topic of experts however, anyone got a good contact? Dad's out Highland Park way.

[WRT]

LOL @ Dovers post

[Pillick]

Never have I seen a thread that promised so much and gave so little...

Here I was expecting a raunchy story of a veteran poolboy, employing all his wily skills and experience to fight off his younger competitors. But no, not a single bored housewife in sight. What the hell, this is about PLUMBING?

P.S. Actually that was pretty funny. Have you tried the simple waterblaster thing lately? I guess its possible the rubber has perished over the years, and shrunk a bit?

[WRT]

Pillock - I felt the same way about the girly threesome thread. This one however has excitement, adventure, sexual references (thanks to Dover and his Gerbil), and a good lashing of humour.

[Pillick]

Sexual references? huh?

Oh, I have now returned, shaken and disturbed, from a Google search on alternative uses of Gerbils. Thanks WRT, I really could have done without knowing that

[WRT]

Thanks Speedie, I'll email Dad and get him to give them a call

[ManDownUnder]

MDU - like your suggestion with the vac and the string. Will give that a go and see if we can pull the plug back through.

Don't rely on the string to do it... if you're planning to pull something back through, use the string to pull through a bit of rope, but that'll be a pig of a thing if trying to pull it around a corner (which I doubt it will...)


Good luck

[ManDownUnder]

WRT, you need to see THESE GUYS they are the experts in Hydro Flushing, and Vac Flushing. They do exactly what you need.

The ultimate in industrial colonics...

SSSHHHHHH - LURPPPP-P-P-P (oi - where'd me willy go?)

[MikeyG]

Disconnect the pump suction at the pump, there should be a screw-on fitting onto the pump. Use a compressor to blow the plug back into the pool.

[The Pastor]

or just get a water blaster down the end? Or 30 mol Hcl? or find out where it is in the pipe, cut it and but a new section back in?

[BNZ]

think about what is good for melting rubber!

About 1000cc's of suzuki motor should do the trick

[WRT]

Ok, the experts were called in. It's buried somewhere around 18" below some concrete, where two pipes join. Apparently it requires the deck and the cobbles to be ripped up to replace the pipe, more than the damn pools worth. Looks like the pools going to the tip and a nice planter box is going in its place.

And it cost $110 for the bad news. Oh, joy.

[WRT]

Well, we are a few months down the track now. Dad came to a decision on the pool, and turned it into a water feature, it was all finished just in time for Christmas day. Basically he just chopped the top off the spa, plugged the holes, filled the bottom (so it's with in the legal limits depth-wise for pools without fences) and lined it all with some waterproof plastic. There is still some leeching from the kwila that is colouring the water every time it rains, but he's got around 8 or so goldfish that seem happy enough in there as well as a few plants.

The little fountain that runs into it is gradually getting taken over by moss and creepers, and should be mostly hidden soon, other than where the water runs down over the rocks. The fish are now quite tame and will swim up and take food out of your hand. There are also around 3 or 4 coloured lights in the water and a couple over head in the pergola, looks quite cool at nights.

Cost him a few hundred in materials (including the wood, pump and lights), plus a fair bit of time to build it all. Basically though, its a vast improvement over the broken old pool!