I have two skimmers in my pool. When I remove the basket from the main skimmer (the one I use to vacuum the pool) I see two pipe openings. When I put my hand down into the lower one I can feel the suction and it looks to be clear. When I put my fingers into the second I feel sand/grit. I've never noticed this before and was wondering if that sand/grit is meant to be there (to filter) or is something that needs to be cleaned out. Thanks.
Skimmer Question
- Thread starter honeill14
- Start date
- Jan 21, 2014
- 1,069
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
The second is likely capped off underground. Many skimmers are built with two ports, so they can be run in series of one another. (this isn't optimal, but it's a frequently performed operation). If you're at the last skimmer on the line, or if your skimmers are all independent of one another you'll have a bit of grit and crud in that other hole.
My new pool has accumulated sand and grit in that other hole as well in each of the 2 skimmers. It is indeed capped since we have separate returns for the main drains. Must say I was confused at first before I realized it was just a useless spare opening that was intentionally capped and then I became just annoyed when I realized it was capped in what I would call a slipshod manner in my case. I would think that a truly pro crew would cap it some better way???
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