Apparently it gets hot in there...
So we need to figure something else out.
The fun of building (and owning) a house.
Pool pump overheating issues. I didn't realize how hot an electric motor gets. The fan that was installed in the pump broke, Nick tried to glue it, but it didn't hold up. So he 3d printed one, then another (center hole was too big, tried to print an adapter, but that didn't work at all...), then another. The issue is that they get too hot and deform.
Jen and Nick and probably Maddie too, noticed that the toilet in the basement was slow to flush and there had been some water coming up from the drain in the basement. I might have noticed that the alarm light on the septic had been on for some time as well, but busy you know...
Anyway, went and out and found this when I took the cover off.
Fortunately, they didn't arrive till 5pm, which worked well for my schedule. Matt and Matt were very nice and were able to replace the pump and also fix a baffle on the outlet of the first tank. Or course they charged me an arm and a leg for it. Especially $500 to replace the baffle which was less than 5 minutes of work. But no one wants to jump into a septic tank, I get it.
So about 4 months after we installed and had been using the Ice Maker it went out... It wasn't pushing the ice out anymore. Turns out the issue is pretty common, Nick took it apart and found this:
A couple weeks ago the pump on our pool went out. From the symptoms, humming noise, I thought it might be the starting capacitor, so I looked at it and it was bulgy... So I ordered some replacements and tried that. No good.