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Crunchy said:
Hmmmm what weir would that be then? Bit of a design fault then....
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The weir is the flap in a skimmer, hinged at the bottom and floating at the top. It's there to prevent anything floating on top of the water from getting out once it has entered the skimmer. If you don't have one or if it isn't working right, anytime the pump shuts down everything floating in there will drift out and back into the pool. If you do have one and it works, nothing should get out.
 
chiefwej said:
The weir is the flap in a skimmer, hinged at the bottom and floating at the top. It's there to prevent anything floating on top of the water from getting out once it has entered the skimmer. If you don't have one or if it isn't working right, anytime the pump shuts down everything floating in there will drift out and back into the pool. If you do have one and it works, nothing should get out.
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thanks, had a look and sure enough there are holes for the flap but the flap is missing, will track one down. Always learning!
 

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chiefwej said:
The weir is the flap in a skimmer, hinged at the bottom and floating at the top. It's there to prevent anything floating on top of the water from getting out once it has entered the skimmer. If you don't have one or if it isn't working right, anytime the pump shuts down everything floating in there will drift out and back into the pool. If you do have one and it works, nothing should get out.
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Didn't know this part had a name, but my tip is FLIP IT OVER when fighting algae! When I thought I'd scrubbed every inch of my pool, there it was...the foam piece underneath was my hidden breeding ground.
 
Someone suggested using hair nets in the skimmer basket in place of pool socks and I thought it was worth a try because I could buy 100 hair nets for about $6.00 on Amazon. That's really cheap compared to the cost of pool sock$. Yesterday my order of hairnets arrived and since we already have a sock in the skimmer I suggested to my husband he put one on the skimmer net. He has a thing about the tiny bits of debris that float on surface of the water. I can live with the tiny debris but I can't live with him complaining about it every day! The holes in the skimmer net are too large to catch the tiny bits that float on the surface of our pool.

Because everyone always wants to know where are the pictures, I have included pictures showing how he put the hair net onto the skimmer net and the results.
The hair nets work beautifully! The pool was looking good but it now looks great! :party: Even better, a marriage has been saved!

Here is the link to my hair net purchase. Brand name hair nets are also for sale in a dispenser box but at about twice the price. Don't know if they are better.

Disposable Hair Net, Spun-Bonded Polypropylene, White, 100 per Bag: Science Lab Hairnets: Amazon.com: Industrial Scientific

Here are the pictures. The drain by the cat's chest in the last picture is 8' deep.

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If you copy the IMG code to the right of the pic and paste it in your thread it will look like this


If the hairnet on the leaf rake doesn't work as well as hoped I just bought this fine mesh leaf rake net from tftestkits.net this spring. It is much finer mesh than my old leaf rake net (which is blue, like yours) and it does a good job with the fine springtime stuff dropping from our trees.
 

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