So I’m trying to vacuum the crud out from my deep end. (It’s a combo of three year old decomposed leaves, etc and stone dust from when we built a new stone deck and wall this past spring.)
So vacuuming through the skimmer. First I stopped up one skimmer and turned on the pump to around 3000rpm. Then i connect my Water filled hose to a suction plate and placed that in top of the skimmer basket that has a sock on it to help collect some of the debris before it goes through my lines to the filter.
It ran this way for a few minutes then I lost prime (or head not sure of the difference) but basically the filter pressure dropped from 8psi to 2psi and there’s air in the pump window and the vacuum stops working.
So I removed plug from the second skimmer and tried it again. But somehow air keeps getting in the line and the psi drops and the vacuum stops.
This only my second time vacuuming since I bought all new equipment and things seems to work fine last time. The only differences were that I was using the other skimmer for the suction and I didn’t have the skimmer sock. But after running the vacuum for a few minutes, I started getting dirt coming out the returns. So I cleaned out the filter a reattached everything to make sure it was all seated correctly.
Anyway, any advice is appreciated. And if someone has a link to proper vacuuming setup through skimmers please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
So vacuuming through the skimmer. First I stopped up one skimmer and turned on the pump to around 3000rpm. Then i connect my Water filled hose to a suction plate and placed that in top of the skimmer basket that has a sock on it to help collect some of the debris before it goes through my lines to the filter.
It ran this way for a few minutes then I lost prime (or head not sure of the difference) but basically the filter pressure dropped from 8psi to 2psi and there’s air in the pump window and the vacuum stops working.
So I removed plug from the second skimmer and tried it again. But somehow air keeps getting in the line and the psi drops and the vacuum stops.
This only my second time vacuuming since I bought all new equipment and things seems to work fine last time. The only differences were that I was using the other skimmer for the suction and I didn’t have the skimmer sock. But after running the vacuum for a few minutes, I started getting dirt coming out the returns. So I cleaned out the filter a reattached everything to make sure it was all seated correctly.
Anyway, any advice is appreciated. And if someone has a link to proper vacuuming setup through skimmers please let me know.
Thanks in advance!