I have a vacuum to waste question. Cleaned off the winter cover (tarp) to find a bunch of large holes had developed and a lot of leaf glump and muck has been leaking into the pool. It was put away pristine last fall. After removal of the cover, things look nasty. Not many leaves but a lot of settled algae and dirt and gunk.
I always see a lot of comments about vacuuming to waste when there is a lot of stuff in the pool and on the bottom but with a large pool, the water level lowers very quickly and I can only vacuum to waste to about 10 minutes before the water level lowers to the point where I need to stop and wait another several hours for the pool to fill up again. Probably 4 cycles like this so about 4 days of doing this process. Does that sound about right?
I also don't want to run this schmutz through my sand filter which I assume is going to shorten the life of the sand even with lots of back washing.
I always see a lot of comments about vacuuming to waste when there is a lot of stuff in the pool and on the bottom but with a large pool, the water level lowers very quickly and I can only vacuum to waste to about 10 minutes before the water level lowers to the point where I need to stop and wait another several hours for the pool to fill up again. Probably 4 cycles like this so about 4 days of doing this process. Does that sound about right?
I also don't want to run this schmutz through my sand filter which I assume is going to shorten the life of the sand even with lots of back washing.