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Thanks, Gary. There’s only one skimmer for the pool so I guess this isn’t an option?

Yes, thanks for clearing that up. There is only one skimmer for the pool. Btw,I just vacuumed using a vacuum plate on top of the skimmer basket with the attached hose and vacuum head, and though there was suction, it wasn’t very powerful. It hardly picked up the sediment (seemingly dead algae...

Thank you! I have two holes in my skimmer as shown here: So I’m assuming that I should plug up that hole farthest from the pump (ie, nearest pool rim) to increase the suction, right? And yes, the booster pump as an understand is working fine. It’s the Polaris that runs frustratingly slow…

Hi everyone, my sister has a 28000 gallon pool that I'm maintaining, and the valve setup is shown in the attached photos (with pump, filter and booster pump). I heard when setting up manual vacuuming via skimmer, we typically keep the skimmer suction line open and close the drain suction...