Articles about vacuuming a swiming pool
When you are vacuuming your pool you need sufficient suction to pick up all of the dirt from the bottom of the pool. If there is not enough suction then some dirt will be left behind as you vacuum which is likely to go into suspension in the water when it is disturbed and will…
Being able to vacuum a pool is probably one of the most important skills to learn when you have a pool built or buy a house with an existing pool. What I mean by vacuum is using a manual pool vacuum, not an automatic or robotic pool cleaner. To vacuum a pool with a sand…
If you own or maintain a pool, then you might be familiar with the various ways to keep it clean, like using vacuums and skimmers. These various cleaning methods and how to use them together can get confusing, and the way to use them can vary between different types of pools. You will need to…
Purchasing a pool for your home is an exciting time. Owning a pool brings with it some new responsibilities, and you will probably have many questions. One of these will undoubtedly be when to vacuum pool on filter or waste? You will need to vacuum your pool to waste when there is heavy debris, dirt,…
What length pool vacuum hose is going to be best for your pool when vacuuming is a pretty easy question to answer. A pool vacuum hose should be long enough to reach the farthest corner of your pool from your skimmer or vacuum port plus an allowance for the depth at that point. So if…
If you have a very dirty pool, particularly when you open it in the spring, it is likely that the only way to clean it properly will be to vacuum the pool to waste. This means using the waste setting on a sand filter multiport valve in conjunction with your pool vacuum. Vacuuming pool to…
Getting your first pool, and learning how to clean it yourself, can be quite confusing at first. Learning how to vacuum properly and efficiently is probably the most important thing to learn. So a question many people first have when getting a pool is should I vacuum a pool on backwash or waste or filter?…
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…
It would be wonderful if a pool would just look after itself so you could put your feet up and lie on a sun lounger instead. Unfortunately, that is not the case – unless you can afford a pool service to do all of the work for you. As a general rule, it is normally…
When I first moved into my house with a pool I hadn’t a clue how pool vacuums work but I did some research online (as you are doing) and I asked a friend with a pool. This is what I found out. In many ways, pool vacuums work just like a regular vacuum you would…