Just Bought A House With A Pool...Where to Begin?

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Make sure you sink the whole hose or you introduce air to the pump... bad thing... connect the vacuum.. throw the vacuum in.. roll the hose into the water and once it's full of water connect it to the plate inside the skimmer.. then turn on the pump..

If you are draining, set the filter to waste and start it

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Just to throw in my 2 cents, this is not recommendation just food for thought. If it were me in your shoes I would con't to follow cj3737's advice, while I see she is new to the site she really seems to comprehend the method and does a thorough job trying to explain without writing a book which has already been written but send good links. Hopefully you have read Pool school several times and are starting to follow the logic. Kcindk also has good insight, but because of the CYA reported as zero then as high as 95 and now 70-80, I am pretty sure there is some error in testing. I actually ordered a reference solution of 50 ppm from TFtestkit so I would know what the positive test looked like at a given level. So since I am not certain that your CYA is accurate even now, I would hold off til at least the weekend for 2 reasons: 1) you are working and will not have the time to spend draining and refilling and when you test again I am not sure about reliability in testing of CYA. 2) since you are working stay with Slam as recommended by cj3737 and lets see what happens at the new FC slam numbers, may give more insight as to which CYA you are at. And when you do have time really work on getting the stuff off the bottom and out of pool, it will shorten your time to seeing the water change from green to more blue and may be the biggest reason you are moving a little slow, but you also haven't been slamming long and some mistakes along the way. Also do you have well water that you will fill the pool with or city water, it will make a difference in some decisions in the future but good to know now.
 

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Just thought I would describe for you how I setup my vacuum.

Turn the pump on and let it get running.

Put the vacuum on the pole, attach the hose(it just pushes on), then sink the vacuum in the deep end(I have an in-ground). I just lean the pole up against the ladder and let the vacuum rest on the bottom.

Feed the hose into the water, pushing it down under the water from the vacuum end to the plate end right by the skimmer.

Once I get all the hose fed into the water(it wants to float back up but as long as you feed it from the submerged vacuum to the other end, most of the air will be forced out the plate end), I quickly lift the plate out of the water and place it into the skimmer. Doing this leaves the least amount of air possible in the hose when you connect it to the skimmer.

Hope this helps!
 
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Sorry cj3737 nice job and very attentive also you have put in a lot of time, guybrush3pwood is lucky to have you help him. Also, in a picture of your filter, I see an old filter in the background, did you have to replace/upgrade that during your start-up this year?

guybrush3pwood, now that you have all the parts to vacuum, you could use it to vacuum bottom, if it is clogging frequently it lets you know still have a lot of junk on bottom that needs to come out, and that definitely will slow the process. Also I would suggest to vacuum to waste. But if you are filling from well water, you may want to test iron level first to see if filtering is necessary. City water is usually not a problem. When I did my pool I did a lot of vacuuming to waste with another person watching waste water when I hit a pocket of dirt I would pause til it cleared, I think that helped the process move quicker for me.
 
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Sorry cj3737 nice job and very attentive also you have put in a lot of time, guybrush3pwood is lucky to have you help him. Also, in a picture of your filter, I see an old filter in the background, did you have to replace/upgrade that during your start-up this year?
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Yeah.. its an old pre-Pentair Pentair Tagelus filter/pump... Had about 12 geysers when I started it up that I really didn't feel like trying to fix, so I went with the Hayward set up. The fiberglass on the old filter was starting to flake and I didn't want to deal with that any more either....
 
So looking at that video you posted on how to vacuum, it looks like I have everything I need....except a hose that will carry the water away from my pump and filter, since that will be plugged into the vacuume. I take it I'll have to buy another if I want to do that?
 

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