Recent content by Elsie

I used the solvent-based H&C concrete stain on my pool deck about 8 years ago, having bought the place two years prior. The cement was horrible looking, no manner of cleaning it or pressure washing it made it look any better, and it completely detracted from the beautiful pool. I originally...

Great idea, thanks!

That is correct, and I used to do that, but last week I tore a quad muscle, just got off the cane a couple days ago, and have numerous other major skeletel problems. So right now I am just dipping the hose in the water numerous times to aid in the priming. I should go back to using the return...

Interesting! I guess that's how the prior owners "trained" me in ten years ago and I never knew there was another way. If you were to see the bugs floating at the top of the basket, not on the bottom, it's hard for me to understand how the suction could be remotely the same, or enough. In any...

Well, actually, I don't think there would be enuf suction sitting on top of the basket. When I remove the basket to dump it, e.g., some of the beetles/bugs float out from the side, and they aren't sucked down into the hole, they just float around on top in a whirlpool type of motion and when I...

I remove the basket then put the one end of the hose directly into the port. If the vacuum plate goes *over* the skimmer basket, what secures it though? There wouldn't be enough suction if it sat on top of the basket, the hose needs to go into the port hole, that's where it has the necessary...

Richard, I need your help with this, I'm up a creek without it, will have to resort to the vac head with rollers. Would it work to simply drill a small hole in the sidewall of the hose itself down toward the vacuum head, or even a couple feet up from it which, in both cases, would keep it...

I don't follow. You're talking to a 60 year old woman who is not mechanical. Where does the PVC piece go? How does it attach to the hose, where does it attach to the hose? Why can't I just drill a hole in the hose itself, down somewhere near the bottom where it would always be submerged, or...

I was wondering about that Richard, the rollers, and was a little uneasy about it, good to know! So...could I simply drill a hole in my hose, or would that spew water everywhere? Or is it something I can buy at the pool store Saturday (it's quite a distance from home) and install on the hose...

Both plugs are out of the returns and replaced with the eyeball jets. But alas, the pump did run for a day with the one plug still in the shallow end return, but otherwise everything is humming along as normal. Not familiar with vacuum regulator, so no, I have never used one. I am quite sure...

Thanks, I forgot to mention that I did examine it and indeed the brushes were worn down and ran out and bought a new vacuum head, so that isn't the problem...

I have a peculiar problem. I opened my older 16x32 in ground a few days ago (no main drain, one jet in deep end and one in shallow end). Water's clear, a little dead algae on bottom, no big deal, otherwise floor bottom perfectly clean, and went to manually vacuum out the algae. As normal, it...

Roger that and thanks again

Dave, That's great news re: spider gasket; I now remember Mark said it was probably just a gasket. Any idea what would cause the noisier gurgling & rattling coming from the multiport? So with a union you don't have to saw apart the PVC? I just thought of another question: should I be using...

Update and a couple more questions. We fixed one long-standing leak that, as a dribble, has never affected it getting prime (but we were hoping), so we looked and waited and looked some more, knowing it was sucking air from somewhere, and found a small leak in the lateral line where the water...