Here is Cecil enjoying his pool. LOL My mom's dog also loves it. She's the little one swimming while I was videoing my brother n Cecil playing with a squirter.
Imagine Illusion 40 Complete 10/19/21
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Casey are you using skimmer socks or the hair nets from Amazon? That should help a bit with his hair.
Dang Sis. I 'member back when you would dream big about how 'one day' you would build an inground. It was a LONG and sucky road here, but seeing you get to enjoy this some warms my heart.
Kim... with the amount of hair that he leaves in the pool after a swim, I'm afraid to use them because it's a lot. The hair will fill the basket n act like it's own skimmer sock n that's no lie. This is the first time I actually cleaned the filter since it was installed. I literally have to scoop the dog hair out of my skimmer basket daily. My robot filters need cleaned daily too. I mean I guess my house is a little less hairless since he's been swimming... it's all in my pool!!!
I have a problem guys. I had a child pull up on the skimmer basket and a toy/s were sucked into my skimmer line and the pump literally ran dry within 1 minute. I was filling up a pool toy with the return water and the slide and the return I had open stopped completely. Like literally stopped but the pump was still running. The pump basket was dry by the time I walked over to the equipment pad. I, along with my brother, have tried to blow the lines for 2 hours. We took the pump off the skimmer line and filled the line with water and tried blowing it back out to the skimmer box. The air is moving around the object/s. We tried to fill the line and blow with 1 shop vac at the equipment pad and suck with another shop vac at the skimmer box. Absolutely nothing has come out. I questioned myself if anything truly went down n hooked it all back up and the pump wants to prime but stops filling the pump basket and has absolutely no suction at the skimmer box within a couple minutes with pump on and "priming". I'm afraid of cavitation that I or the object has possibly created. I was instructed to use an air compressor which I have at 30psi to start and seal it to try and blow the line towards the skimmer tomorrow after work. If that doesn't work, I was told to then seal the skimmer box line with a plug and blow it sealed from the equipment pad. If this doesn't work, I'm looking at worse case scenario and having to plumb a brand new line from the skimmer to the pad.
I won't even get into how I feel about this right now. This is what I came home to after a rough day at work and it wasn't even the 2 little ones that usually use my pool. The grandmother of these kids (she's my cousin) asked me how much it would cost to fix it and I just looked at her n told her, You can't afford it!!!
Im attaching a video of my worst case scenerio and a pic of the air compressor we plan on using. I need guidance on anything you guys can offer to help me clear this line. I took 10 days off on 7/20-7/29 and I'm going to be replacing a main line. I'm burning up about all of it.
I won't even get into how I feel about this right now. This is what I came home to after a rough day at work and it wasn't even the 2 little ones that usually use my pool. The grandmother of these kids (she's my cousin) asked me how much it would cost to fix it and I just looked at her n told her, You can't afford it!!!
Im attaching a video of my worst case scenerio and a pic of the air compressor we plan on using. I need guidance on anything you guys can offer to help me clear this line. I took 10 days off on 7/20-7/29 and I'm going to be replacing a main line. I'm burning up about all of it.
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- Jun 1, 2018
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Omg girl 
I hope u can dislodge it!
I know u wanted more concrete/pavers around the pool but its a good thing u don’t have so much now incase u have to go the route of a new line.
I hope u can dislodge it! I know u wanted more concrete/pavers around the pool but its a good thing u don’t have so much now incase u have to go the route of a new line.
I'm going on the outside perimeter of the concrete to run the new line.Omg girl
I know u wanted more concrete/pavers around the pool but its a good thing u don’t have so much now incase u have to go the route of a new line.
I'm not happy at all!!! I'm going to try the air compressor tomorrow.
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Any idea what kind of toy it was? Wonder if a plumbing company could send a snake down there to try and snag it, or push it back through?
--Jeff
--Jeff
We're going to try to pressurize the line first. I'll tell my brother to grab a snake.
- Jun 1, 2018
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Plumbers have cameras to look inside pipes and determine where and what, then how to tackle it. Keep in mind if your own efforts don't bear fruit. I suspect your going to need to add a fitting you can attach to that will be sealed, and send water pressure back toward the skimmer. If there's gaps around the blockage, air may not do it. TLDR: use a plumber or pool specialist that has the gear needed.
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I agree with asking a plumber. They also probably have cameras that they can run down the line to see exactly what it is you're working with.
If I don't get it out tomorrow then I'll see what a plumber will charge for a camera
There was another person who dropped a rock into the skimmer line and it got stuck and good. What they did was use a tennis ball to help seal the hole in the pump basket. They put a hole where the ball would be at the hole facing the pool then a hole just big enough for the air fitting to fit into. it worked!
@Newdude @ajw22 you two are great at finding threads. This one was within the last couple of weeks so may be easy for you to find enough though I can't find it.
@Newdude @ajw22 you two are great at finding threads. This one was within the last couple of weeks so may be easy for you to find enough though I can't find it.
Poolnoobgrandma. We go back. 
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Aack.. dropped rock in skimmer
I use a small river rock to weigh down the hairnet in my skimmer. Maybe 2 x 3 x .5 inches. When I was changing the hair net in the skimmer yesterday I dropped it in. I immediately went to turn off the pump. We tried using our wet vac to suck it out to no avail. I've called the PB for...
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- Jul 21, 2013
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This one did not have a happy ending....
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Rock in skimmer line
I didn't realize you could separate glued joints this way! It's not sure fire (pun intended?), but some here have had success with that method. TFP is where I read about it. Never tried it myself. It'd be pretty easy to warp the pipe using that kind of heat, and when that happens, unglued or...
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