In floor cleaning system here. No robot needed. I do wish my skimmer had provision for a suction manual vacuum though.
In floor Cleaner Issue
- Thread starter TinFoilHat
- Start date
- Feb 6, 2015
- 7,809
- Pool Size
- 12300
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
Except since I have a venturi skimmer and a hairnet in the basket it won't catch the dust which is what I would really like to vacuum up.
- Feb 6, 2015
- 7,809
- Pool Size
- 12300
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
Turn off the venturi skimmer valve, fully open the skimmer suction, put a plug in the venturi outlet in the pool wall.
Having a hairnet in the skimmer basket should help trap some of the debris or just remove the hairnet if it's an issue.
What's odd is that I do have a skimmer suction valve that I've never opened in 23 years but no hole in the bottom of the skimmer. I think there's a circle down there but I would have to break it out.
- Jun 7, 2017
- 9,967
- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Jandy Aquapure 1400
Can you post a pic looking into your skimmer? You would have to have a hole in the skimmer otherwise it isn't working.
I will get a pic of it ( I knew I would be asked for it.) Like I said, it's a venturi skimmer right now so water comes in from the back and shoots through the venturi out into the pool to create the suction.
Turbo1Ton
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- Dec 26, 2019
- 1,995
- Pool Size
- 14500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
A&A venturi skimmers here also. If I manually vacuum, I wind up removing the skimmer basket and plugging directly into the skimmer suction port in the bottom of the skimmer. I do have to pull the sleeve out because the suction port is below that. See below image.
Would be really odd if they didn't plumb it up.
--Jeff
Would be really odd if they didn't plumb it up.
--Jeff
Since I have a valve for "skimmer" they probably did plumb it. Thanks so much for the drawing. I would not have realized the sleeve pulls out or that the suction port would be below it. I'll have to find out IF the sleeve still pulls out now. Thanks!
