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Swimming pool help

M

Murpheeee

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We moved to a new house over the winter which has an above ground pool.

It currently has a tarp over it and that tarp is currently sagging under a ton of water left behind from melted snow and rain.

Short of standing there for two days with a bucket.......How do I get the water out of the tarp so I can uncover it?


I have never had a pool before so have no clue....
 
can you not release one side of the tarp, let it fall into the pool, and pull the thing out without the weight of the water on it?>

-MC
 
Originally posted by: MattCo
can you not release one side of the tarp, let it fall into the pool, and pull the thing out without the weight of the water on it?>

-MC
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yes I could....but the water is pretty dirty so I'd rather not
 
I have a little used electric pump you can have, (I've used it to drain my pool cover for the past two years) anything you have for trade ?
 
Originally posted by: Roger
I have a little used electric pump you can have, (I've used it to drain my pool cover for the past two years) anything you have for trade ?
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Roger == Elite

NJ man.
 
Originally posted by: Roger
I have a little used electric pump you can have, (I've used it to drain my pool cover for the past two years) anything you have for trade ?
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ummm......anything you are looking for in particular?
 
A gameboy SP for my little guy, he broke his last night 😛 😉

I know that's asking for too much 😉

What do you have ?

This pump is not a light duty model, it must weigh in the neighborhood of twenty pounds, it's all heavy duty cast iron.
 
Go to a pool store and get a cover pump. They are cheap. They are little disc attatched to a siphon assembly. Thro the disc in and squeeze the pump a couple of times and your done.
 
Originally posted by: Roger
On a huge inground pool ?

I don't think sooooooooooooooooooooo.
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I don't think so either. He said above ground. We use one at our store on a 30' diameter above ground.
 
We used multiple siphon hoses, or cover pumps like fredtam was talking about. Depending on the depth of water it might take awhile. You can get a bigger pump like Roger is suggesting, but we used the same little plastic pump for about 10 years.
 
Originally posted by: Roger
A gameboy SP for my little guy, he broke his last night 😛 😉

I know that's asking for too much 😉

What do you have ?

This pump is not a light duty model, it must weigh in the neighborhood of twenty pounds, it's all heavy duty cast iron.
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that will probably cost a fortune to ship.....I will take a look at the pool store first. Thanks!
 
All you need is a regular garden hose.

Hook it up to a faucet, and fill the hose with water. (seriously, hold one end of the hose up at eye level and run the water and wait till all the air bubbles etc are out of the hose) Now turn off the water and cap off the end of the hose with your thumb, or crimp it right at the end etc.

Now hold the hose at the same level as your faucet, and unscrew the other end from the faucet. Try not to let too much water drip out, cap that end of the hose off the same way.

Now you are holding a 25'-50' hose that is essentially full of water.

Drag it over to your pool cover. Continue holding both ends at the same level. Stick one end into the puddle of water in the cover. Uncrimp it/remove your finger/whatever. Drop the other end on the ground, letting it open.

As the water drains out of the hose, it will suck the water out of the pool cover.
 
Can't you just rent a pump at the local pool store? I don't know about you guys, but a regular hose would never work on our pool. There's too much dirt and leaves and it clogs up the hose. Our pool store has a pump with a 2" diam hose that you can throw onto the cover and it will be drained in half a day. When the water level starts getting low, you may need to brush the leaves to one side of the pool and bail them out with a bucket. Another option would be to try to remove the cover with the leaves on it, but you'd be surprised how much of a bitch that can be. That stuff can get pretty heavy. And you have to be careful not to get the leaves in the pool.

Since it's your first time with a pool, maybe you should hire a pool company to open it for you and take note of every step so that you aren't missing anything. That's especially true when you close the pool in the winter. You don't want to forget to blow out the lines and add antifreeze to the pump filter and skimmer.

edit: just saw that it was an aboveground. maybe you don't need a bigger pump then.
 
Originally posted by: flot
All you need is a regular garden hose.

Hook it up to a faucet, and fill the hose with water. (seriously, hold one end of the hose up at eye level and run the water and wait till all the air bubbles etc are out of the hose) Now turn off the water and cap off the end of the hose with your thumb, or crimp it right at the end etc.

Now hold the hose at the same level as your faucet, and unscrew the other end from the faucet. Try not to let too much water drip out, cap that end of the hose off the same way.

Now you are holding a 25'-50' hose that is essentially full of water.

Drag it over to your pool cover. Continue holding both ends at the same level. Stick one end into the puddle of water in the cover. Uncrimp it/remove your finger/whatever. Drop the other end on the ground, letting it open.

As the water drains out of the hose, it will suck the water out of the pool cover.
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this worked very well.
I first tried it with a garden hose....but that was going to take about a month....

so then I got a 2" flexi pipe and did the same with that.......the whole thing drained in about 6 hours

thanks!
 
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