This was our first year with a pool. We had it professionally closed because our's is sort of an odd-ball situation (part of it is fully buried with a concrete deck and part is out of the ground.) We have a mesh cover as well as a leaf net. Last week, we had 4" of rain and there is now a lot of water on the cover, submerging part of the leaf net which makes it kind of useless. Plus, we used an Aquador and, thus, didn't drain the pool, so 4" is a lot of additional water, I assume?
My pool place said I could pump it off with a sump pump so today I tried that. The pump is heavy so I was afraid to just set it on the cover/net, fearing it may rip one or both. I held it in the water and let it run for several minutes. The pump says it will remove 5 gal/min but it didn't seem like the water level on the cover was dropping so I stopped. Is it possible that the pump was just sucking pool water from under the cover up through it?
I guess what I'm asking is... Is what I tried right (sump pump) and I just didn't do it long enough? Or is there a better way to do this? I have no idea what I'm doing and I don't want to mess it up. Thanks.
My pool place said I could pump it off with a sump pump so today I tried that. The pump is heavy so I was afraid to just set it on the cover/net, fearing it may rip one or both. I held it in the water and let it run for several minutes. The pump says it will remove 5 gal/min but it didn't seem like the water level on the cover was dropping so I stopped. Is it possible that the pump was just sucking pool water from under the cover up through it?
I guess what I'm asking is... Is what I tried right (sump pump) and I just didn't do it long enough? Or is there a better way to do this? I have no idea what I'm doing and I don't want to mess it up. Thanks.