Recent content by Casey McDougall

I think what i might do this weekend is take the plug out of the pool side line and drop some food coloring into the water, then put the shop vac on the port in the bottom of the skimmer and see if it is drawing in pool water. if it is then perhaps the plug wasn't making a good seal the last...

I have an aqua genie skimmer which has two ports/lines on the bottom of the skimmer and a return line that comes to the front of the skimmer. about 18 inches below the face plate in the pool is an outlet which i believe is connected to the line in the bottom of the skimmer closest to the pool...

Thanks for reading. I don't have a main drain.

Bought a house with a pool 4 years ago. This year I had to resolve some issues with the pump and I found the forum to be incredibly helpful. (First pump kept tripping the breaker - replacing the capacitor solved the issue; then I must have upset the seals when I replaced the capacitor as it...

Hello. I am attempting to winterize my pool myself this year. (we had a bad experience with the pool company last year) I opened the skimmer box and there are two lines at the bottom. (aquagenie single skimmer, single return) I attached an air compressor to the drain valve on the skimmer at the...