swimming pool maintenance question: vacuum problem?
Reefer_Madness asked:
water is being ****** out of pool into pump and filtered water ack into pool. But when I stick a vacuum hose in to vacuum the pool, it seems to stop ******* water to pump and water jets back to pool also stop. This doesmn’t make sense to me!!! Hellp PLEASE!!
water is being ****** out of pool into pump and filtered water ack into pool. But when I stick a vacuum hose in to vacuum the pool, it seems to stop ******* water to pump and water jets back to pool also stop. This doesmn’t make sense to me!!! Hellp PLEASE!!
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check the fiters. they may be bypassing for the pool but blocked when vacuuming.
Backwash the pool filter first. Then close off your skimmer basket valve and open your vacuum and just barely open the main drain valve to keep the pump working. Also make sure you do not have any air in your vacuum hose that will stop the pump.
Fill the vacuum hose with water before hooking it up, this is a common mistake and will stop suction.
Close off all other feeds to the pump besides the single spot you are hooking the vacuum up to. Remember also that the vacuum is going to create a water restriction so the pressure in the filter is going to drop as well as the water flow through the system.