Pool Maintenance

How to Vacuum a Swimming Pool

Keeping a swimming pool clean starts with proper maintenance! Join TMA educator Alton Johnson as he demonstrates how to set up and use a manual pool vacuum, from preparing the skimmer connection to vacuuming the pool floor. A practical, hands-on look at an essential pool maintenance task.
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 All right, so you wanna know how to vacuum your pool. Here's one way to do it. Take a tennis ball, put it down here where the skimmer is. Put it in the hole that's suctioning. This one here is not suctioning anything, but put it here, and that's gonna force this other one over here to pull with a lot more force So you can be able to get a really good suction

Ooh, yeah. I almost pulled my finger off. All right, so let's get ready to put our hose inside. Blue end on the vacuum, the white end is gonna go into there All right, so to properly prime your hose, you're just gonna take it, keep shoving it up under the water, all right? All the way until you get to the end, and then when you get ready to get to the end, I'm gonna show you how to make sure that you know that you got enough water in your hose, and then we gonna put it in there.

All right, cool. So you see, as we've shoved it up under there, see that water coming out? That's how you know that you have all the water that you need inside of your, inside of your hose. Make sure that it's properly primed, dip it up under the water, stick it through here Put it down into the hole

And that should be it So let's see how we looking. It might take my- about 10 seconds or so, but I don't know if you guys can see it on camera See, look at all of that dirt and stuff come up. And then you just slowly go back and forth, right? Just take your time. You don't have to rush. Let's see if it, uh, sucks up this dirt right here.

All right, you're just gonna slowly but surely do that because another thing you don't wanna do is go too fast and kick up all of that dirt and make your pool all cloudy. So you wanna go as slow as possible so all of that dirt can go back into your filter as you're vacuuming. And that's basically it, man.

That's how you properly vacuum a pool