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I’ll give it a shot and start running the pump from 12PM-10PM. Opened up the pump pot before in the hot sun and the water felt like a warm bath. It can’t hurt recirculating that into the pool; might get it up a few degrees compared to running it at night.

I recently read that running your pump at night could lower the water temperature during the day. Is this true? If so, what’s the science behind it? Also, what’s the best time of day to run your pump to achieve max water temperature? TIA

Thank you!

I have a rock about the size of a baseball in my skimmer basket, and it covers most of the bottom of the basket. Is this too big? Could it somehow affect the operation of the pump/skimmer? The rock is large to help prevent the vortex I was getting in the basket.

This might be a dumb question but could a larger rock/brick obstruct too much of the skimmer/drain to the pump? Should the rock be about the size of a baseball?

I tried a brand new weir and it did not help.

But the water level is actually slightly higher than it normally is, and the second screw up on the skimmer plate is more than halfway up (Hard to distinguish in pic).

I have a rock in there already that's a little larger than a golf ball. It's the same rock from last year when I didn't have a vortex.

It’s actually stuck in the horizontal/down position (fully open). I don’t see anything in there that would be causing it to stick.

No, the water is a little more than halfway up the skimmer.

When I opened my pool this year the pump was surging and the pump pot was not staying primed. I determined that the weir in the skimmer was staying open and causing a vortex, as everything returned to normal after I removed the weir. I trimmed about a half inch off the weir but the problem...