Thinking About Moving Your Pool Equipment Out Of The Pit?


Thinking About Moving Your Pool Equipment Out Of The Pit?

In the desert in the early days, pool equipment was often put into a sub-terranean room built of cinder blocks and/or poured concrete.  This was with the double thought of equipment being both “out of sight” and “out of sound”.  It was a good thought, but has since lost favor.
Why?  Because if the pool leaks, or the valves in the plumbing leak, or the equipment leaks……..you guessed it, the pit fills with water ruining all your equipment!!!!

Is it a hassle to move the equipment?  YES!
Is it worth it?  YES!

That is why when equipment fails and is replaced, it is often moved above ground.  But even that is not a cake walk.  Let’s review the steps.  Moving the pool equipment to another location involves not only physically relocating the pump & motor, filter, heater and other equipment but also extending the pipes and the electrical power and bonding wires, to the new equipment pad location. If you have a gas heater, the gas supply pipe will also have to be moved. 

You have to ask yourself which is most expensive…moving the equipment….or losing the equipment to water damage and then replacing all the expensive equipment and moving it.  So, yes, it is less expensive to just move the equipment in the first place.  With all the shifting ground in our valley, we frequently get calls where pipes have broken and damage is extensive and expensive, so that is why we are posting this “word to the wise”!

For Your Free Estimate, or just to get questions answered: 

CALL DOUG!  760-409-3763

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