![]() ![]() ![]() Compressors are high air pressure, low air flow. Yes, you could use a suitable compressor to blow out pool lines, but the potential exists to over-pressurize your pipes and fittings with a compressor. Common Questions About Pool Plumbing Winterization: Can You Blow Out Pool Lines Using an Air Compressor? A suitable substitute to purge pool lines would be the Mighty Vac 2-in-1 Blower and Vacuum. The right equipment for the job, in this instance, is the Cyclone Pool Blower, shown right. Truly, anyone can do it with the right equipment. These were very hands-on, DIY clients who would have their pool completely closed, and called us out for our blow-only service to winterize the underground lines.īlowing out the lines is not too complicated. The fan seems to work nicely, so the grease has not affected it much even with the absence of filters.Ĭould it be that the lack of carbon filters is affecting the way the fan works, making it blowing instead of sucking air? Is it too late to fix now, could the vent be blocked somewhere upstream, where I can't clean it? I don't run a chicken shop, the motor assembly was dirty, with some grease as you would expect, but is not a clusterf*** of grease.Back when I had a pool service company, we had a few customers we saw only once per year. I thought that the filters must have been saturated and needed replacement, but after disassembling the inlets, I realised that there were no carbon filters at all! There has not been any since I moved into the house (two years and a half ago) and I doubt they were before (the house is around 4-5 years old). I did the usual test for this, placing a pot of steaming water on the hob and see if the stream of steam gets sucked when the fan is on: there is not much difference between turning the fan on or off, and some of the steam escapes the hood without being sucked by the fan.Īfter checking the manual, I saw that there were meant to be some coal filters attached to the air inlet. I had the impression that the fan was blowing, instead of sucking, and after removing the filters, it's quite obvious that it's venting air out. I clean the filter grids every now and again (~6 months?) but haven't done any other maintenance on it. After a long time suffering of sub-optimal fan extraction in my kitchen, I decided to go to the root of whatever was causing it. ![]()
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