Draining Off Excess Water

[TikiTime]

How do I drain off excess water? Due to rain....water is to the top edge of the skimmer and needs to be dropped an inch or two. There is a valve at the bottom of my cartrige filter, I assume I open it with the pump on? When I opened with pump off, nothing happened. Before I tried it with pump on, I wanted to get clarification

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[jblizzle]

With the pump on, water will shoot out of the valve on the bottom if you open it ... might want to modify it so you can screw a hose on it and spread the water around.

 

[JasonLion]

You can also open up the filter and then turn the pump on. That will drain the pool more quickly, but make a correspondingly larger "mess" around the filter, with water coming out quite quickly.

A more controlled, but far slower option is to use a garden hose to make a syphon, or use a sump pump.

Some cartridge filter systems have a garden hose bib installed in the plumbing for draining water. That would require some minor plumbing, but is a simpler to use long term solution. Of course this isn't really different than using the valve at the bottom of the filter, just (potentially) easier to use.

 

[jblizzle]

I think getting a short piece of pipe and a fitting to connect to the the ball valve with a male thread on the other side that you could hook a hose to would be pretty easy ... might be kind of slow ... but certainly easier than cutting pipe, adding a Tee and hose bib.

 

[TikiTime]

Thanks all. I will revisit tomorrow. I ran out of daylight today!