Hi Everyone,
New pool owner here. We purchased a new home a few months back and are just opening the pool. The previous owners didn’t have it open for almost a year and it was in pretty rough shape when the cover came off. After some frustration with the pool store I’ve ordered my town Taylor test kit and plan to see what I can do on my own (with the internets help of course). In the meantime though I was thinking about doing a deep clean of the sand filter since we really worked it to get the pool moderately clean and given everything else I doubt the previous owners ever did it. However, the filter is in the small pool house so I can’t flood it over. Any ideas? Best option to use a hose in one hand a shop vac in the other to keep the water from overflowing? If I lose a bit a sand to the vac can I just add pool sand back from a new bag or do I need to match types?
thanks for the help! (And much more to come I’m sure!)
New pool owner here. We purchased a new home a few months back and are just opening the pool. The previous owners didn’t have it open for almost a year and it was in pretty rough shape when the cover came off. After some frustration with the pool store I’ve ordered my town Taylor test kit and plan to see what I can do on my own (with the internets help of course). In the meantime though I was thinking about doing a deep clean of the sand filter since we really worked it to get the pool moderately clean and given everything else I doubt the previous owners ever did it. However, the filter is in the small pool house so I can’t flood it over. Any ideas? Best option to use a hose in one hand a shop vac in the other to keep the water from overflowing? If I lose a bit a sand to the vac can I just add pool sand back from a new bag or do I need to match types?
thanks for the help! (And much more to come I’m sure!)