Basic Swimming Pool Features and Plumbing Walkthrough with Justin Bowie of JMax

Justin Bowie of JMax Plumbing in Tempe, AZ gives us the breakdown of a basic swimming pool and the equipment needed to function properly.
Swimming Pool Talking Points:
- Main skimmer and positioning
- Baja shelf skimmer and positioning
- Water leveler
- Paramount Airbar
- LED Bubbler on the baja shelf
- Surface returns and positioning
- Pentair MicroBrite Light
- Vacuum line
- Main Drain
- Brass flush deck jets by A&A
Swimming Pool Equipment Talking Points:
- Plumbing & Sizing
- 3-way valves
- Ball valves
- Drain Valve
- Fittings
- Spacer cell for salt cell
- Paint plumbing
- Labeling plumbing with stickers
Episode 109: Pool Plumbing Fundamentals and Best Practices with Justin Bowie of JMax Plumbing
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[@JasSinghGrewal]

Perfect work bro. I’m a custom home builder doing my first pool for a customer. This helps. Keep up the great work

[@jeffreystembridge4498]

As a pool tech, installing unions is key in helping techs down the road incase the pump does need to be pulled, instead of cutting pipe your only unscrewing the union. Otherwise super super clean work. From my experience unions are like gold when pulling a pump.

[@santiagosalcedo7653]

Definitely I agree, unions are a must have otherwise there's no other way to remove pump but to CUT the pipe which is a big NO in my list, besides very nice installation.

[@CTINF]

@@santiagosalcedo7653 could have installed high temp unions at the pump in and out ports .

[@adamdemirs3466]

That is a lot of plumbing! Would take me a few tries to get it that clean. Everything looks professional and clean.

[@jfssparky]

Cleanest set up I have seen yet. Not a plumber though well not this week. Very good looking job 👌

[@aldenpines]

At 4.0 I note the drain valve. Good idea.

[@mattc.310]

That's a nice set-up. A lot of work and quality parts. My pool has one inlet, one skimmer, a pump and a filter. Don't know what the grate in the bottom is supposed to do.

[@illtrax]

Such a clean setup! Great tour.

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[@tatumleonidas1444]

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[@coltenxavier7601]

@Case Joe Yup, have been using InstaFlixxer for since november myself :)

[@iamdc_]

Jason knows his stuff!

[@Rob...]

Beautiful setup.. Only thing missing is the heater

[@lowlightevangelist9431]

Excellent work, tradesman.

[@juliojones8402]

Great work brother.

[@oscarchi5816]

Right on. Very informative. Nice and clean job.

[@joseluisantillon1694]

Great job

[@ElimanGibba]

Educational & good lecture.

[@chriscross329]

would be nice to see the end result of the pool and how all that equipment works

[@mattjohnson6809]

Very instructional

[@superdupert6]

So when you have an automatic vacuum cleaner, do you plumb that vacuum line independent from the main drain suction line with it's own three way valve? Or do you just tap that auto vac line into the main drain suction with a pvc tee?

[@desertcamel3573]

excellent video

[@spaofficials2695]

Great video , learned a lot ! your arrows on the two skimmers lines are showing the wrong direction though! they are on the suction side going into the pump, not the other way around. I got confused ;)

[@dshudson]

Wish I could afford a pool like this

[@markbirmes2225]

Cleanest EQ set ever. Only thing that would add to value would have been long plumbing w/out EQ and shooting the pad in with gunite. Very thoughtful return placement. The customer did an A+ job finding you. Are you doing an acid start up? Wondering what type of plaster finish you are using as you are saving the salt cell.

[@MrBmxbrawler]

Why are the arrows facing the wrong way in front of the pump. Lol. Both sides.

[@WalkersLawn]

Very nice! What type of paint did you use? Thanks

[@Smooleo]

New friend here great work guys 👍

[@maretaposey8469]

I am in Dallas, TX. I have an older pool I would like to add this product to. Is this system only able to be installed in new construction? My pool is too deep. I would like to have the depth decrease to make it kid friendly with a tanning ledge.

[@waynewright5712]

In your video you said that the pluming lines were painted, is this something that you recommend, and is it a special paint?

[@bojangles_bonjangles8000]

Clean. Do you reduce the returns entering the pool or is that also 2”?

[@asianangler]

do you need any electrical wiring for the LED bubbler?

[@asaadmk1]

thanks very very informative, 2 questions , 1- i only have 3 meters between the home and the fence , is it enough to make 5 by 2 pool cause you have to leave space for the cement and stuff? 2- should i get salt cell or choline system? thanks in advance

[@chengkhang2804]

Should contact a builder, to see what can and cannot be done, but I get the feeling that it may be a little close to even pass code.

[@albaniansk8er]

That’s a cool system but how is that anything like the average in-ground pool? and how is that going to teach anybody about how a standard inground pool is plumbed

[@drdrew3]

You could draw the plumbing diagram for a simple 10,000 gallon pool on the back of a napkin in 10 seconds. This is for a more modern and advanced installation. Great to see a tradesman who has mastered his craft

[@bluediamondpools5569]

Do you have a video of the airbar when that pool was finished?

[@mixingsacks]

is it California code to only run sweep 90's ?

[@bw120588]

Was loving it until you ran the main to the skimmer

[@aes30006]

Why shouldn’t it be done?

[@asianangler]

so how many total returns you got on this pool? at least 5, 6?

[@xuedoosterman]

Never put a 90 so close the the pump intake. Huge mistake and most likely more that I missed

[@pemocity1450]

Wait, you said the 2in pipe can carry 50g/min and the 1.5in can carry 60g/min. Is that correct?

[@18jchandler]

2" was 50gpm on the suction side, and 90gpm on the pressure side. The 60gpm was on the pressure side of the 1.5" pipe. I don't know if those numbers are accurate, just what he was talking about.

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Plenty of stuff to break and require expensive repairs once the warranty is up.

[@hugotorres2295]

some arrows are not correct

[@JonasConcepcion]

What paint do you use and color to match pentair equipment?

[@poolchasers]

Typically its called Almond

[@richardclinton7829]

How would like your enternship

[@FuelTim]

hard captioning over everything that you are trying to show

[@fac3308]

Good video Justin but if you're explaining this to new people you lost me on all the nomenclatures LMAO!!!

[@CaptainKy]

watched the whole video was very impressed untill you called a schedule 80 PVC nipple CPVC! lol oops. 🤙

[@yos8793]

Why do you spend so much on filter its just a sand.you can make your own filter without spending so much

[@drdrew3]

It’s a $60,000 pool in a luxury home - you can’t duct tape in a DYI filter and have a happy customer. Get real

[@mikesanders902]

Freakin bad @$$