Category: Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Water Problems

  • How to Drain Water From a Pool After Rain

    How to Drain Water From a Pool After Rain

    It is surprising just how quickly a pool can become full, and even overflow, after a heavy downpour of rain. We get virtually no rain for much of the year where I live but when we do it really rains and my pool overflows. To drain water from a pool after rain you will either…

  • Why Is My Pool Losing Water? It May Not Be What You Fear

    Why Is My Pool Losing Water? It May Not Be What You Fear

    When a pool starts losing water it is not unreasonable to start panicking and imagine the thousands of dollars that you may need to spend to dig up pipework, replace the liner or do other major works. All pools lose water and it is easy to jump to the conclusion that you must have a…

  • What Is the Best Way to Get Leaves out of a Pool

    What Is the Best Way to Get Leaves out of a Pool

    If you have lots of trees around your pool you are likely to get lots of leaves constantly falling in it, particularly during fall, and to deal with them effectively you need to act sooner rather than later. When vacuuming leaves from a pool, if there are many, you will constantly need to stop vacuuming…

  • How to Get Air out of Pool Vacuum Hose  – Easy Guide

    How to Get Air out of Pool Vacuum Hose – Easy Guide

    It is important to know how to prime a pool vacuum hose before you start to vacuum a pool to get rid of any air in it that will then feed into the pool filter system and perhaps create an air lock. Priming is just a more technical way of saying removing air. There are…

  • How to Clean Dirt from Bottom of Pool – Step by Step

    How to Clean Dirt from Bottom of Pool – Step by Step

    Even if the water in your pool is clean and sparkling, having dirt on the bottom of the pool just looks awful and unappealing to swim in. So you need to clean it. How to get dirt out of pool? The easiest way to clean dirt from the bottom of a pool is to vacuum…