This thing blew out the main drain easily as well and made it so easy to blow out the lines. Plan to also use it to winterize my lawn sprinkler system.
It’s a self priming siphon for when winter storms fill the pool too much. I can hook up a hose to it and turn on the water to prime it and then shut the water off and it’ll continue draining until the water level hits the end of the pipe that sticks down into the water.
That’s trick. Wanted to drain a bit the other day, and was trying to think about how to do this. Didn’t have time to google, and just threw in sump. Thanks for this, I may try it.
They will dig up any PVC lines that break or replace any of the equipment thats damaged by freezing? I’d be curious if anyone in Texas had a similar guarantee and had it honored. Though maybe they don’t close pools as much that far south and so wouldn’t have that kind of guarantee.
Just winterized the sprinkler system today. It worked ok. Just gotta make sure one of the valves are always open so the cyclone doesn’t stop moving air. Some of the sprinklers are a good walk away (100 yards) and I needed to find the downhill end of the sprinkler line to lift it up and allow water to flow out. But if I waited too long after letting the timer valve shut, the blower would start dead heading and felt like it was getting hot.