Tip 2 - How to improve your pool pump suction

welcome back to Mundaring full care tips and troubleshooting today is about low pressure or not being able to get a decent vacuum suction from your pool could be that you're drawing air in somewhere or that there is in fact a blockage could be a dog like this one stuck in your skimmer box anyway let's start at the beginning the first thing I would do to check is for for blockage and air leaks you just you take out the skimmer box basket you put that one back in and then we move logically down the line from the skimmer basket to the PVC pipe which goes to your pump which is through here traveling underground so the water comes in from your pool to your pump the next thing to do is check the basket in here for debris or blockage there's not a lot in there just give that a bit of a clean-out make sure that the hole is facing the in pipe to pump you check your o-ring that's so that's make sure it's there secure the lid back nicely on the pump while you're there we usually would check for nice tight barrel unions for in and out of the pump from there we might as well follow the sequence to the filtration which in this case is a glass filter the water comes in we check all the connections in and out even the waste pipe these tend to leak a little bit we're on filter that's looking good follow the the course of the water back through make sure everything is nice and tight fittings are good your gate valve is not in a silly position so everything looks pretty good in here if the pressure after having done all of this is still low it could be where bringing air into the cyst from somewhere before we would go to that though just to finish here for the moment I would give the filtration system a backwash because quite often if they haven't been back washed for some months a good backwash will bring good pressure back and we're looking for about 75 psi after a backwash to indicate good pressure but these are the main things I would do to just make sure we got improved suction if this does not improve your situation then it could be there's a leak in the system which I will cover in my next video thanks for watching

Channel: Hills Pool Care group swimming pool tips & tricks

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Length: 2min 57sec (177 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 03 2015