I am absolutely at a total loss, I need direction!
I have an irregular shaped pool toy that has gotten caught between my skimmer and my pool pump, likely at one of those 90 degree angles. I cannot see it. I had a pool guy come out with the usual CO2 gas and it DID NOT WORK! We have tried feeding the garden hose in (doesn't work), a plumbing snake (doesn't work), even a rope, feeding it from the skimmer all the way to the pump skimmer to see if we could "toggle" it out since it appears we must change the orientation of the toy to get it out. I have no idea what has happened. I think it is jammed in there so tightly that we are going to have to have our pool deck dug up. I've called pool plumbers, regular plumbers, ....it's like no one knows how to deal with this, claiming they've never had something not come out after blowing it with CO2. So...if I DO have to have the deck dug up....good lord.....who do I call? I've researched all over the internet...I am so at a loss, we never take the skimmer out and leave it out and the one day we do, our toddlers put a batter powered swimming penguin in our pool....
If anyone has any ideas I'd be very appreciative. Our pool is now sucking air (since the pool guy apparently made it worse!) and is running at 5-10 pressure! I am assuming I have to deal with this rather than let the toy rot out...
TIA!
Janice
I have an irregular shaped pool toy that has gotten caught between my skimmer and my pool pump, likely at one of those 90 degree angles. I cannot see it. I had a pool guy come out with the usual CO2 gas and it DID NOT WORK! We have tried feeding the garden hose in (doesn't work), a plumbing snake (doesn't work), even a rope, feeding it from the skimmer all the way to the pump skimmer to see if we could "toggle" it out since it appears we must change the orientation of the toy to get it out. I have no idea what has happened. I think it is jammed in there so tightly that we are going to have to have our pool deck dug up. I've called pool plumbers, regular plumbers, ....it's like no one knows how to deal with this, claiming they've never had something not come out after blowing it with CO2. So...if I DO have to have the deck dug up....good lord.....who do I call? I've researched all over the internet...I am so at a loss, we never take the skimmer out and leave it out and the one day we do, our toddlers put a batter powered swimming penguin in our pool....
If anyone has any ideas I'd be very appreciative. Our pool is now sucking air (since the pool guy apparently made it worse!) and is running at 5-10 pressure! I am assuming I have to deal with this rather than let the toy rot out...
TIA!
Janice