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I've dealt with this for years! I finally found a solution! I attach the fine mesh bag onto the vacuum and then place 2 tube socks over it and tie it off. The fine silt doesn't escape from that barrier...works like a charm!
Pro tip. NEVER SOAK the ground around the pool like he is…your legs will sink causing unleveling and stress in the frame… attach a hose and run it far away from the pool.
Who else from California was like, 👀 *what rain?* When he said wait for it to rain before you try this lol gonna be waiting til that one week in January when it actually rains 🤣😭
POOLWHALE Portable Vacuum Jet Underwater Cleaner w/Brush. This has been the answer. It is easy to assemble, easy to maneuver, and quick. Plus, not expensive.
Awesome video! Very true, it took me 3 years to figure that out! Always wasting chemical and time before I seen this video. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.👍🏼
i get in pool and walk in circles make water stir like toilet bowl get out! after it settles it will all be in center of pool! take an old screen from house in center on bottom cathes 90 percent lift out
From California, invested in a creepy crawler kept getting stuck around the ladder. Tried Vacumming dirt on Filter mode results not good a waste of time. Your method vacum on Waste mode cleaned the bottom of my within 15 minutes. I am glad I found your video.
I have a cartridge filter and this was THE best tip!!! Thank you so much. I made the mistake of using Swamp to Swim and it turned my algae into a dust of dead algae that I couldn't vacuum up. It would get cloudy when I vaccumed it and it would return. I opened the waste port and vacuumed and my pool is crystal clear. The rain information was very helpful since it had just rained. It was also very helpful to see the amount of water that would be coming out by using this method. Thank you!!!!
I have literally been in what feels like a never ending cycle of brushing, filtering, brushing, chemicals… I have a layer of silt/dirt on the bottom of the pool. Pine needles are my worst enemy around this pool. I have been working for a week now trying to prep the pool for swim season. I got all the Pine needles and leaves out, but have been left with this constant bottom cover of silt. It’s exhausting. I will definitely be trying your techniques here for that! Up until now, I have just use my net/leaf vacuum and it just creates more of a cloudy mess. I’ll get out the pump filter vacuum and do this with it now and if that doesn’t work, we will go with the hose technique! 😅 Thanks for the tips!
Same here! I can't seem to get ahead of the dirt on the bottom of the pool & my SandFilter Pro50 doesn't have a "waste" setting as shown. I'm frustrated beyond belief & feel like I'm imitating Sisyphus: the Pool Version. All I've done so far is make a mess and have a few "clean' spots from brushing & surface skimming & the pool bottom is still filthy.
Most above ground filters can only suck up just a light covering on the bottom of the pool before the filter gets dirty. You need to either vacuum with an open port like here in this video or have several cartridges to swap out. I do both and my water is crystal clear.
I always thought if I tried to vacuum it would circulate back in but after you said the backwash/rinse(or waste) cycle where the water and sand flows out
I got the robot vacuum its really good it works with pine needles and easy to clean. Basket holds the waste. Empty out and drop it back in as need. It will not help with the dead small particles...will stir back into the water
Hope it helps me. It's hard to get all that dirt from the bottom of my pool. And if I just move something. Everything from the bottom starts getting at the top.
how did you connect that intex hose to the skimmer? I'm thinking of getting a pool like this and have an intex sand pump that is still good. Would save me about $200.
Can you close your intex 14x4ft above ground pool by draining all the water because my vacum wont work & I've spent so much $ in chemicals trying to clean it for my grandson & He only got to swim in it 10times :( I just want to empty it start over next year with a better pump & Vacum..Any help welcomed
I had to do that. My dirt was so fine it just blew through the filter and back into the pool. I just hang the hose over the side and let gravity suck it out onto the lawn 👍😎🇺🇲
A very long winded way to say 'vacuum to waste'. If you have a cartridge filter with no waste setting just get a vacuum and hose, one end at ground level, below the level of your pool floor, the other end attached to the vacuum head end in pool. Pop the garden hose while turned o into the vacuum end, which is in the water to create a siphon/vaccum, remove garden hose and then work very very sowly vacuuming the bottom not to disturb the gunk. Vacuum away. Fill the pool while you are vacuuming to waste with a sand filter or stop when water too low and refill. Avoid sucking air into the filter and pump. If the pool is very dirty, using a floculant to get all the algae and dirt to sink to the bottom and clump may cost you $20 but save a few hours of manual vacuuming a few days in a row. What you want to do when the pool is very dirty is get the dirt from pool to drain bypassing as much pool pump and filter equipment as possible to avoid having to stop, unclog and clean them.
Uh dose anyone know if it's Allright too run return hose over side of pool , to return water from pump ? It's drained 2 or 3 inches below return and it's got lots of stuff in bottom, I don't wa na fill it till June I just wanna run filter add algae killer and scoop what I can .
His skimmer is built into side of pool..you have to bypass the filter by vacuuming with filter on waste mode ..I create a whirlpool then wait ..all the debris most anyway will gather in one spot ..I get in and scrub the sides and bottom then create the whirlpool ..wait a bit let it / dirt settle to a spot on the bottom then vacuum ...you put your vacuum hose on the intake port.. he puts his in his skimmer ..
Great. But I would pipe that water to away from the pool area, out of the lawn area so it’s not muddy around the pool. The mud will just get tracked back into the pool. Maybe some 50 gal clean barrels or install a tank to collect that water to use to water your yard, trees, shrubs, etc. instead of it just making a mud pit? Even filling large rolling trash cans and then using a $40-50 submersible pump set down in it with hose attached, and use something like a Dramm watering wand - turn the pump on it’s like it came from the tap to water the plants. Currently I use 32 gal Rubbermaid trash cans (with he rolling dolly), collect rain water off a tarp or a tilting umbrella . And my deck umbrella and the back of the house shade it - I use a very old washed millions of times sheet, but I rinse it about 4 times through the longest cycles on the washing machine the first time to remove old the old soap and softener residue out of it. That’s not good for your plants. I let it dry outside in the sunshine or throw it in the dryer (no dryer sheets), secure to the top of the trash can as a filter to catch debris etc.. and let the rain water fill it. I drop it over, roll up and pull to the front and tie or twist and secure with rubber band or string. Depends on how many hands you got. The only time this doesn’t work is in pollen season, and that pollen will foul the water horribly and it gets stinky and a mess. But once pollen season is over, the cans are disinfected, clean as a whistle I start collecting through the sheet. The top stays on the can at all times with 1/4-1/2 mosquito dunk in it once per month. You can use a whole one and run a piece of string or wire to keep it in the can incase it overflows. Don’t use the bits, made of corn and foul the water too for this application. The water, shaded, stays clear, no smell, no algae, no mosquitos all summer. It will get hot in like July August even shaded when the weather temps reach 95-100+. You just have to wait for it to cool down. Sometimes I will take the top off to let heat escape but keep the sheet on it. Hot water is devoid of oxygen and not good to use. Once it cools, I use a small bucket, dip up buckets and pour back in from as high as possible to aerate. By morning it’s cool again. It’s just in the hottest part of summer. I water/fertilize my orchids using a tank spray. So I fill it in the morning when it’s cool and set it inside the utility room to stay cool. You can like with rain barrels put in spigots and daisy chain connect them. The only issue I have is the green tree frogs sometimes get in and lay eggs, so you get tadpoles… keep them out. They will make the water smell and when you add biological mosquito (dunks), it won’t hurt them but they won’t have anything to eat, die and foul the water. The adults will go somewhere else to eat but will still breed and lay eggs if you don’t keep it protected. Now you may use up the water quickly enough that’s not an issue or you may not have these little small green tree frogs as we do in the south. But, but, you could collect the water from the pool the same way, using the sheet or other filter material. Roll to a garage or shed to stay cool and shaded. When it’s needed, drop the pump in etc as mentioned above and water away. If using flexible pipe or large diameter hose, you could keep a filter bag to catch sand and dirt from going in and even use the water for washing items around the yard like the patio, chairs, or just watering. You’d have to use a fine filter mesh, but could even use to wash the car. It really depends on how quick your pool gets dirty as to how much water you’d have but I would for sure get it away from the pool area.
You need a self contained robot vacuum. That requires no water hoses. I use the Inferno it's a little pricy but it does an excellent job on our 27ft round. Just plug it in and go.
I only have a 15 foot Intex round, it takes me about an hr to fully clean/vacuum it. I think I would lose way too much water doing this. Great idea though!!
Pump the water into another small pool then let it settle for 2 day then pump the top clean water back into the big pool remember to pump it throw the filler then you don't lose any water and the mud end up on the bottom of the small pool put fish in it I don't use clorean so the water can be used for the garden rain water stay clean longer keep the sun off it
🤦🏾♂️I have some sort of sandy residue at the bottom that if I step on it it turn into a cloud and swirls away. I vacuumed it but I had it on filter setting and I guess it came back because it’s too fine for the sand to catch whatever it is🤷🏽♂️
Do you have a sand filter? If so it's the sand from your filter going back in the pool. It happens sometimes. It will stop. Check to make sure you didnt over fill it. Try to vacuum it out that's the only way
If that doesn’t work add flock the night before let it run all night till AM. Then shut it off let it sit 1 hr . Then put vacuum in and put it on waste and take that stuff right out of the pool..... Bypass filter.. Good luck!!
I think you use an algae chemical to kill the blooms and then use a brush to scrub them off. Which should free it from the liner. Then use the vacuum to clean everything out. I'm trying to build a filtration system for my vacuum but I think I'm going to just buy a sand filter instead. My pump is pushing way too much water to contain it in 5 gallon bucket. It blows water and sand from the top even with racket straps holding the lid on.
@@user-hj2vy4sk8j Mya Wish you did have a pool, or wish you would join me cleaning mine. I live in Florida and it's been raining every day. Lol informative
@@burbbilly As for me, I never go into the pool when I vacuum. Everything is done from the outside. if the vacuum pole and hose are long enough you will reach the entire pool from the outside.
@@94SexyStang Strange, because mine does. Maybe it's because of the lenght of the hose? I have never had to go into the pool to vaccuum it, and I have a 12X24.
