After re-plastering this 120,000 city pool, we were able to get the assistance of the local fire department to fill the pool from a fire hydrant. It is important that a pool fill quickly after new plaster when doing a renovation.
You should also be careful not to cause damage to the plaster from high pressure from hoses or metal hose ends whipping around or sitting on the plaster for a long period. We flushed the fire hydrants prior to starting the fill. Fire hydrants hook ups will typically have a lot of rust and sediment that get stirred up when initially opened. The water that was flushed started off brown. After the flush the water was clear with no abnormal amounts of metals or sediment.
On this particular pool we began filling with normal water hoses from and a slow stream from these hoses that was diffused and not allowed to create impact damage where it was landing in the pool. After we got about 18 inches of water depth we were able to open it up all the way.
As you can see there is not a direct jet of water entering the pool with high velocity, it is more like a normal water hose without a restrictor or nozzle, but on steroids. 500 gallons per minute per hose. From fill start to finish it took about 3 hours to fill this pool.
Frank Disher is a 25 year pool pro. He and his wife Jacque operate a successful swimming pool company in the DFW Texas area including retail stores, service and repair departments, and renovation departments. They currently have 3 Poolwerx territories: North Richland Hills TX, Denton/Lantana Tx, and Southlake/Roanoke Tx.
2021 Frank and Jacque began a weekly podcast on Turf's Up Radio turfsupradio.com, "The Deep End Pool Podcast". They love sharing their knowledge and experiences as well as their sense of humor.
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