Hello,
We’re new homeowners and the home came with an above ground pool. I’m at the point where the equipment is set up and I’ve just started vacuuming.
We have a hayward perflex ec40 DE filter and attached pump.
The previous owners had a terrible cover on the pool that basically disintegrated on us so we ended up having a large amount of debris and gunk get into the pool. I’ve scooped out about as much as I could and an on to vacuuming using a skimvac.
It went well for about 10 minutes and I noticed I wasn’t getting suction anymore. The skimmer basket wasn’t too full but I emptied that out anyway and it looked to me like the pump basket was clogged.
We have a plug to stop water from flowing from the skimmer but since the equipment is below the level of the pool when we tried to open it the water from the filter and what I’m assuming is DE came pouring out of the basket.
The inlet to the pool is an aqualuminator and I don’t want to have to remove the light from it every time I want to clean the pump basket.
And we don’t want to just let the water come pouring out because we have a small yard in the city and that area of the yard is already very uneven, I’m assuming from the same thing being done before.
Does anyone have suggestions on what we can do to stop the water coming from the inlet jet without having to remove the light from the aqualiminator?
I’m hoping there’s a simple solution I just haven’t thought of yet
We’re new homeowners and the home came with an above ground pool. I’m at the point where the equipment is set up and I’ve just started vacuuming.
We have a hayward perflex ec40 DE filter and attached pump.
The previous owners had a terrible cover on the pool that basically disintegrated on us so we ended up having a large amount of debris and gunk get into the pool. I’ve scooped out about as much as I could and an on to vacuuming using a skimvac.
It went well for about 10 minutes and I noticed I wasn’t getting suction anymore. The skimmer basket wasn’t too full but I emptied that out anyway and it looked to me like the pump basket was clogged.
We have a plug to stop water from flowing from the skimmer but since the equipment is below the level of the pool when we tried to open it the water from the filter and what I’m assuming is DE came pouring out of the basket.
The inlet to the pool is an aqualuminator and I don’t want to have to remove the light from it every time I want to clean the pump basket.
And we don’t want to just let the water come pouring out because we have a small yard in the city and that area of the yard is already very uneven, I’m assuming from the same thing being done before.
Does anyone have suggestions on what we can do to stop the water coming from the inlet jet without having to remove the light from the aqualiminator?
I’m hoping there’s a simple solution I just haven’t thought of yet