How To Make a Pond Vacuum! Turn a Shop Vacuum into a Pond Vacuum! 

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Thanks! You've convinced me to ditch the pond idea. 😂

Thanks, need to do mine. I am thinking of backing the shop vacuum up to the pond and draining the pond water back into the pond through a pond net to sift out the debris. Just a thought have not tried it yet.

😂😂😂 this is amazing and hilarious. I just created the same thing at home with my wet vac and was wondering if I was the only one. I also attached a transfer pump to the discharge valve of the wet vac.

That's so Smart

Super helpful!! I'm so gladI found this video! I "inherited" my pond when the apartment house I live in was sold and the owner and former fish pond maintainer moved. I am learning as I go, and the pond is a mucky mess. This is the perfect solution to clean the junk out. Thanks!

Thorough, comprehensive. Makes it sound easy!

Pond water is great garden fertilizer.

Great.. Now just get a pressure washer, combine the two, and you have a great hydro-excavator for digging holes without a shovel and mess.😊

I had this idea a few days ago, just checking if I was the only one :) of course not. I suppose if you leave the valve open on the vac, there will be no suction but it would be great if the junk just continuously emptied at the other end.

Fantastic! This is so helpful, I have a shop vac that doesn't work great as a shop vac already, and probably also have the necessary fittings! Thanks!

Thank you my friend for this handy and affective DIY solution .. I just put in a little pond insert maybe 150 plus gallons .. No fish yet .. Just like the sound of the water when I’m outside and thanks again .. Going to drill my shop vac .. I already have spare bulkheads from my fish tanks

Genius!!!

Grreat thanks, just picked up a shop vac for fraction of the cost.

I use my shop vac from my husbands garage and it works great!!

if you put a rubber flap (cut an old rubber floor mat etc..) the drain pipe the vac will suck it closed, as the water fills it will push it open.

Did the same except i hooked shop vac to a sealed 55 gal drum that allows water to flow back to pond after it settles debris into 55 gal drum. This allows constand run

Thanks a lot for that, very inspiring! Coming from one whole day spent to manually remove with a pool net the bottom sludge! So, first I checked about "official" pond cleaner... no way! Then I found your video and here we are: going to make it soon. Now, all cheap pvc vacuum available here are small, only 12/15 liters and probably would get full fast.

Add a little plastic cage on the inside down by the gasket and you can return the water directly back to the pond while keeping the debris in the vacuum.

If you added a filter on the drain off you could use it continuously I think. In the UK the Screwfix titan vac is perfect for this application.

Good idea. Thanks for sharing.

Just the idea I needed. Perfect - thanks for sharing.

I have to get some muck out of the bottom of my pond and then would look pretty clear coming out of your unit but the wet back seems like a good reliable situation I have limited water my pond so what I will do is I will dump it away from the pond and let the sills and/or the filter into the grass on its way back to the pond will see

Worth it

Thanks for sharing

Awesome thankyou

Very cool video! Love the fact you rescued the shop vac and gave detail simple speak and explanation of things. Also I think cursing is allowed in repair and especially in fishing😉 ..I'd love to see a easy explained small hydroponic garden that's affordable and easy to make..I've always been kind of interested in it ..especially on a small scale because I'm old and live in a condo with limited space...I am eternally a country girl.Last year I was giving away green beans lettuce and a ton of tomatoes....ohh another cool thing be how to put up chicken wire or mesh over a end area in the attic I think squirrels are getting in mine and or rats...I dont have flooring up there another cool idea how to put down small plywood in sections so old ladies can lift it into the attic...or how to clean out a dryer vent when some contractor put a almost 90 degree elbow turn in the vent...I see tape at the joint but dont feel comfortable pulling it apart unless I see how it's done first. I sure wish I had paid more attention when my Dad tried to show me these things. Take care to you and your family Stay safe stay strong 🌞💪💝🙏🕊

Would this work with a 6-foot deep swimming pool or is the additional pipe length too much for the shop vac to handle?

Great idea

I liked this right after you admitted cursing at your tools! DIY comedy! 😂 I think a bigger PVC pipe diameter would help suck up the leaves better but I know you had to match your vac hose and maybe finding the valves would be harder to find for anything bigger. I might try to do this custom job to mine if I can find the right stuff. I try to find a 2.5 inch PVC setup.

Great idea. I tried a an expensive pond vac and it was lousey.

Dude! That's excellent! Thanks!

drilling through a stainless steel weld at Mach 10 might do that to ya 😅

You rock sir!

Smart YTBR...keep up the good work & Good Luck getting BIGGER 👍

Be nice to find out how to make a pond vac that drains the same time it sucks like the oase 4

Yes! awesome i'm planning to do this soon. I have a fountain with 12 inch square filter box, and my waterfall 2000gph pumps water through a pressure filter / uv clarifier. My pond is about 800-1000 gal and the water is clear, but still has muck on the liner surface, this seems like a good way to clean out the muck. But frogs just laid their thousands of eggs last week... and I don't want to suck any baby fish into the shop vac (1 to 1.5 inch baby fish) hmm

Awesome!

Very clever!

Looks great how come clear water is coming out. Did the debris sucked up just magically disappear?

I would strongly recommend doing this switch a shop vac that has a 2.5 inch hose if you have alot of leaves so you don't clog your hose. Also dont vacuum the fish🙃

How is that any different than using a Wet/Dry Shop Vac with a discharge port already in it?

what became of the debris? How did you keep it from draining out with the water? Thanks

Love it!

What can you do if the bottom of your pond is pea gravel?

Nice! One question will it work if you leave the discharge line open?

So what’s keeping the debris from pool bottom in the vac. If all you are doing is sucking up and drawing back in. What am I missing?

Would this work with sludge or mud?

What kind of an attachment would you use for gravel in the pond?

can the output nozzle be opened to allow the tank to not fill and allow continuous use?

Do you think this would work for a slate floored pond that has about 6” of mud in the bottom?

So what's the difference between this and a wet vac?

How many seconds do you have before the vac needs to be emptied?

What size horsepower shop wet/dry vac would you suggest? Is 3 hp enough?

I noticed you cut notches in the pvc -why? Also can u run the vac with the ball valve only partially open? Is there any way to reduce the suction using the ball valve (I’m afraid I will accidentally suction the fish)

No filter needed for the vacuum? Will be trying this method for my small pond with a regular shop vac.

I am trying to remove excess soda ash from a swimming pool

Why would one need to make the valve at the vacuum end? Couldn’t one just submerge the vacuum hose and leave the vacuum off until it’s in the right position at the bottom of the pond?

Hi! What size did you use for the quarter-turn balls valves and PVC pipe?

good vid....can you make it drain at the same time as sucking ? i am a plumber and i sometimes work on live water pipes with my wet vac but i need it to drain, but there is no wet vac that exists like that only a big commercial one and i know there are pond vacs now that discharge at the same time but the flow rate is too slow... thanks alot

What this work for a swimming pool because I bought some pool vacuums that were handheld they're not really cleaning that well I think this would be better what do you think I have some shop vacs I need something to clean the dirt off the bottom of my pool what do you advise

If I wanted to recycle the water back into the pond how would I clean out the vacuum to rid it of harmful chemicals from it's previous life? Of course I would put it through a pond filter but this wouldn't remove soaps and other chemicals from the old vac.

Wouldn’t the motor cavitate if there is an occlusion with the valve shut off?

Where I can I find a threaded PVC valve to attach to the bulk head for the drain?

If I have a shop vac with a hole in the bottom, can I just leave it open to continously drain?

can your koi fish stay in the pond?

Well that was a bust After spending $20 on the 1 1/2 inch pipe and another 20 on the valve it didn't work . My large shop didn't have the power to suck up the water /debris in a 3-4 foot deep pond.

Why not attach a hose, or just leave the drain open to so you don’t have to stop and dump the water out? You can just continually clean. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Great video... quick question - at the end we see you emptying the canister but all I see coming out is water (quite clear too). Where is all the debris you sucked up? Did that stay in the canister & then you have to empty the canister? Thanks for replying!

If you install a bottom drain there is no need of vacuuming

Karcher

Hey can you make a complete list of all the parts you bought from the hardware store to make this? I'm new to doing things on my own so it would be nice to not buy the wrong things. I really want to try this! Thanks :)