The Art of Vacuuming Your Swimming Pool
Swimming pools, either private or public, needs a vacuum session time regularly to ensure cleanliness and freshness. Vacuuming your pool in a week is quite normal but it is a requirement to vacuum your swimming pool as often as possible. As a matter of fact, the more you use your pool that less vacuuming it requires. You can actually vacuum your swimming pool with the use of automatic pool cleaner; but you can also have a thorough vacuuming that’s being done manually on a monthly basis. Vacuuming swimming pools goes with the same process for both above ground pools and in ground pools.
How to Vacuum Your Pool
1. For equipped pools, select the valve on the suction line for the port that will be used for vacuuming your pool.
2. Ensure that the vacuum hose is properly attached to its vacuum head so the system won’t draw ear for its proper functioning. The vacuum head is that part that has brushes or wheels and the vacuum hose sometimes comes with a swivel end to avoid tangles. You may secure your vacuum connection with a hose clamp before the actual vacuuming process starts.
3. It’s your time to dig a little deeper. Your pole, hose and vacuum head needs to be placed into the pool’s deep end, leaving one end of this pole to stick out of the water.
4. Hold the vacuum hose’s unattached end right in front of any of its water return fitting to prevent air to come along. You’ll know then that there is enough water in your hose once the vacuum head bubbles onto the surface.
5. Let the water come into the hose by placing your hand on its end.
6. Put the skimmer basket adapter right on top of its skimmer basket, preventing possible clogs. You may even have a leaf trap for vacuuming through a dedicated vacuum line or a lower suction to avoid clogs.
7. Let your vacuum’s filter system readjust itself for about 30-90 seconds to totally take any air out from the system.
8. Vacuum anywhere and everywhere. Take your time in vacuuming your pool’s sides and corners. Vacuum carefully behind the ladders as any kind of dirt may be hidden and tend to settle down there for such a long time if not thoroughly vacuumed.
For effective troubleshooting techniques, you may find problems like there goes this dirty water that continues to run to your pool, the loss of suction after a few minutes and having no suction at all.
With regard to the dirty water trouble that is running to your pool, make sure not to backwash your sand filter as this could just get in some sand that lowers its dirt trapping performance which is the direct cause of this running dirty water in your pool. If suction is lost for a few minutes, it means the pool is really dirty that you can vacuum through passing the filter or with the use of the sand filter. For a total no suction condition, it may mean a leak in the hose or a hose-basket and even filter problem. In using more than one suction line, ensure the right connection.