Even if y'all own an automated puddle cleaner, you nevertheless need to use your manual puddle vacuum from time to time. If you have a puddle, you demand to have a transmission pool vacuum. There are many issues that your automated pool cleaner cannot make clean—including algae blooms. To successfully treat algae in your puddle, you will need to shock, use algaecide, and and so manually vacuum your puddle.

To vacuum your pool, you will demand:

  • A vacuum head. The blazon of vacuum head you need will depend on what type of pool you have. Come across your local puddle professional if y'all need advice on which vacuum is best for you.
  • A vacuum hose. The size of your pool will determine the length of the hose you demand.
  • A telescoping pole. Most poles are standard sizes and you tin hands attach your vacuum head, a pool brush, or a cyberspace to information technology.
  • A skim-vac. A skim-vac is needed with most inground and above basis—there are some exceptions.

How practice I set up my vacuum?

  1. Attach the vacuum head to the end of the pole.
  2. Attach the hose to the vacuum.
  3. Attach skim-vac to other stop of hose. (Skip this step if you have a Doughboy pool.)
  4. Plow off pump.
  5. Push pole/vac/hose into pool and release all the air out of the hose.
    • If you lot have a Doughboy pool, button skimmer lid downward into the skimmer.
  6. Open skimmer chapeau and place skim-vac over skimmer/skimmer basket. Do not put vacuum hose directly into skimmer hole—this will harm your puddle'south plumbing over time.

To begin vacuuming your pool:

  1. If you accept a sand filter and are vacuuming to waste, set filter to "waste" choice. If you practice take this option, it is highly recommended that whenever you lot take algae, you lot will need to vacuum to waste. This option allows yous to vacuum the algae up and send it out through the backwash line, fugitive getting algae into your filter sand. However, you will need to vacuum quickly, as water volition be exiting your pool quickly. You should non allow your water line fall below your skimmer at any time. Therefore, you will need to put your garden hose in your pool to fill it up as yous vacuum, or add fresh water again after vacuuming.
  2. Otherwise, leave setting on "filter" and turn pump on to begin vacuuming. You volition not lose water this style.
  3. Vacuum your pool merely as you would vacuum your living room, picking upwards debris or algae as you go.
  4. Once you have finished vacuuming, plow off your pump. Take out all your vacuuming equipment and put them dorsum into storage.
  5. Brand certain to empty all skimmer baskets.
  6. If yous vacuumed on waste, yous will need to plough your filter to the "rinse" setting, plough on the pump and let it run for about thirty seconds, and then turn the pump back off. Make sure to set your filter back to "filter" afterwards yous do this.
  7. If you have a cartridge filter y'all may want to spray the cartridges out with a garden hose and put them dorsum into the filter.
  8. Otherwise, plough your pump back on and yous're finished!

Recall that is of import to manually vacuum your pool from time to time—particularly if yous have algae. Besides call up that we are here if you lot have any questions about vacuuming or algae!