After my pebble pool was filled, I bought a Dolphin Explorer E30 but NPT says not to vacuum using wheeled devices or automatic cleaning systems for the first 28 days. I've been brushing 1-2x a day since the fill, 11 days so far, but haven't been able to vacuum anything. I need to vacuum some bits of dirt in the spa and deep end of the pool from when landscapers came by, but I'm scared to jack up my pool after 4+ months of building. What do I do?
How do I vacuum my new pebble pool for the first 28 days?
- Thread starter DoctorHousesCane
- Start date
- Jun 7, 2017
- 9,967
- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Can you sweep them towards a drain? If not, you can use a hand held suction vacuum if you have one. If it's just a little though I would just leave it.
I bought a cheap flat wheel-less vacuum similar (but not identical) to the one below. I threw it away once I could use a wheeled cleaner.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,164
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Plaster Installation and Maintenance - Further Reading
www.troublefreepool.com
Why no wheeled cleaner for first 30 days? Plaster is sufficiently hard once the pool is full of water. Pool cleaners can be installed and utilized after about two days if there is no plaster dust forming. The reason that tracks develop is usually from plaster dust being "packed down" by the pool cleaner wheels and then not removed by brushing. So it can look like an "indention" (and discolored) but it is not an indention. Brushing afterwards can help prevent the plaster dust from sticking on the plaster.
So as long as I brush it after, there's no issue?Plaster Installation and Maintenance - Further Reading
Why no wheeled cleaner for first 30 days? Plaster is sufficiently hard once the pool is full of water. Pool cleaners can be installed and utilized after about two days if there is no plaster dust forming. The reason that tracks develop is usually from plaster dust being "packed down" by the pool cleaner wheels and then not removed by brushing. So it can look like an "indention" (and discolored) but it is not an indention. Brushing afterwards can help prevent the plaster dust from sticking on the plaster.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,164
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
What does that look like? Is it just a white cloud in the water? Kind of looks like silt siting at the bottom
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- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,164
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
The water may be cloudy. Or it may not if the palster dust has settled onto the pool surfaces. That is why you need to brush daily.
You may see plaster dust be kicked up when you brush pool surfaces.
I tried. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but seems to be just sitting there next to it instead of being sucked in. Am I supposed to activate something?
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,164
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Main drains usually do not have a lot of suction to draw debris in.
At this point, I don't really see anything when I brush the walls or floor in the shallower ends. I only see the water getting cloudy/silty when I brush the deepest end (where I usually sweep everything towards).
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,164
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Sounds like that is where the plaster dust has settled.
You want to brush the pool to get the water cloudy so the dust can be pulled into the filter and filtered out. It can only be pulled into the filter if it is in suspension in the water.