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!”

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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! 👍🤠

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!

your knowledge of this machinery is very impressive, also you explain very well, keep up the good work! And greetings from Germany^

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?

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?

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.

Awesome

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.

@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.

I now know why my waterpark doesn't do weekend only ops, too mush hassle to start up and shut down just to run/open for 2-3 days. Ours has three houses after they had to build a new one when the system overloaded and the river motivators failed after a new water coaster was installed, executive fault for not listening to chief engineer (your position title in that franchise).

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..

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

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 !! 👋

your the man😉😊

4:10 you can buy thread tube adaptor fitting. and run a tubing then it wont splash everywhere

why ain't you put 2 elbows and a line to the floor on the vent so only your shoes get wet?

If I was the new hire and he was trying to train me and tell me how to do this, I'd quit the same day.

"good morning team". Yeah, ok, no need to watch any further. hahahaha

Okay when do I start ?

Was that clear as mud?

How long do your parks stay open in Texas? First week of September and we're done here in Illinois.

If I was a betting man I would say that check valve is bad that's why that valve on the in coming was shut and it's harder to prime. All that air is also bad for the pump and the seal and it's impeller. no pump does good with air and there needs to be some were to drain all that air off it would help the life of the pump out a lot and it's life span. I only no this because IV been doing pump work for over 20 years and I specialize in booster pump and submersible pumps. P.s no pump is made to get rid of air really well it ends up distroying the pump end on the inside open it up and I bet it's has cut pockets in the casting and impeller. It will be only a matter of time before its no good it should not take that long to displace any air in the line even if sitting for a year. 👍👌✌️💯💧🥂

I wonder how often you have to worry about cavitations? Some pump designs are better at keeping cavitations down, others are awful.

You have a bump clean for your filter . I still have to backwash the ones at my place .

Why don’t you plumb those purge valves to a drain instead of letting them spray water everywhere?

The legs of the unistruts supporting the vfds are rusting out

How to check for proper chlorine dosing? Put some water from the chemloop on your hand and sniff it 😀

I always wonder how much the water bill is at a pace like this. I know the water gets reused but I’d hate too still see the water bill each month

Are all of the attractions at this park from WhiteWater West?

I cant help but wonder why all those air bleed valves dont have cheap PVC directing them to the floor so the corrosive water just dumps on the floor and not all over other parts and near electrical lines and what not. Seems a small price to help the overall longevity of the system as a whole.

But why the extended shutdown?

This is complicated 😂

Attaching a hose to the end of the air-release vale at tyhe top would not be a bad idea ;)

How come the water in the viewing windows looks brown ish. Is that just it needs more filtering, picked up rust from somewhere, or just the plastic yellowing?

Hey i really like your videos could you make a video of how you start the water slides and other things in the morning with a Camera looking at the water slide outside?

Gee I never thought about this. I don't think Arlington TX had this problem when they used taxpayer money to buy a water park that would have competed against another Waterpark I believe had recently purchased and filled the valves and pumps with cement making it useless as tits on a boar hog.

A technical question: what if someone shits in the pool?

should have automatic air separators instead of having to open a valve.

Have you guys ever heard of a plc? You need to automate this a little better. Lol

A couple ball vent valves would eliminate all this fooling around.

I'm not going to watch the video, just gonna ask and wait for other commenters to answer my question. How many lpm/gpm do the pumps push?. How many gallons/liters in the whole system? Is the system salt? bromine? Chlorine?. If chlorine, liquid or pucks?. Where does this facility like to keep temp and (if chlorinated) ppm at? Thanks

I’m afraid .

Do you use Amazon Monitron? It's a monitoring system that using Amazon web services and machine learning to monitor industrial equipment to determine if a motor is failing.

so many open switch panels, the complacency is unreal. Luckily, other than that everything is wet or that bleed valves and hoses leak directly onto electrical equipment and motors, there doesn't appear to be a huge safety risk.

Go spend the few dollars and put some 90 on the air valves so everything don't get's soaked......just lazy....

This should be a click bait video.

At 45 minutes, this video is too long. Edit out the parts where nothing is happening visually. We can't see the water flowing, so I got bored looking at your hand occasionally turn a knob. You've got an audience eager to see this behind-the-scenes content, just tighten it up.