Unclogging pool pipes with rubber bladder

hey guys domestic ginger here today I'm going to be fleshing out the drain in my pool because something is stuck in the line I think it's dry leaves or something it was pretty much my fault during the winter I drained my pool to underneath the that little circle thing right there I can't remember what it's called like a water outtake I guess and I tried to get the waters out of lines because I in the winter I didn't want the pipes to freeze and end up cracking because that would cost way more than having the lines flushed out I don't know how much that cost so I got this little guy for like $11 and change at Lowe's I got the medium dream it's a rubber bladder and see what's happening over here is no water is getting into there we had it working for a little bit but then my husband turned it off and now it like when I turn it back on only some bubbles coming out of that little one right there and nothing's coming out of the one underneath the stairs over there now the reason why I drained it so the pipes wouldn't freeze is because my saltwater cell right there they're about six seven hundred dollars to replace and the year prior I left it on there and through the winter you know there was water in there and it cracked and it busted thankfully it was under warranty so I got it replaced but let's go ahead and try to use this guy so first oh that's Jax that's my little dude he's he just turned nine months the other day so okay so you got your your hose right there tight as you can get it okay so you're gonna take my pocket you take this out and now if it has two holes like mine and you're gonna stick it in the back hole and push it in as far as you can as far she'll go so what's gonna happen is when I turn the water on that bladder is gonna expand blocking all water from coming out this way and in all the water from the hose is going to go through and pulsate hard bursts of water to try to blow out whatever stuck in there like I said this probably leaves it could take anywhere from two to three minutes depending on the size of the blockage it could take up to ten fifteen minutes but we're gonna see how long it goes here all right so let's go turn the water on all right I need to change my this thing out but for now yeah that's what happens and whatever is in there in the line might pop out into the into this area I'm gonna take that off real quick okay it's working I took the lid off Jax I hear air bubbles let's go see how the other end is doing well I see some slight bubbles leaking through I don't really think that's a huge deal but we're gonna leave this running for a little while and see how that goes okay so let's been in there for a good little while maybe about 15 minutes and as you see nothing's really come out so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to turn off the water I'm gonna take our little buddy out as we can put it in here not really sure exactly how it's going to work because it's got two lines and you know I was never told which one does what so we're gonna try slowly putting that on see what that does all right slowly turn it on it's got two ways that it can go so I think what I need to do is try to put it in there at an angle this way and see how that works and then if that doesn't work do it that way shoot when it's starting to rain too because when my husband ain't got it to work he said he stucked a broom or something down there and something got unclogged and it was able to work for you know work but once you turned it off it's not doing it oh great it's raining all right I'm gonna turn this off and let that go okay so I took the bladder out of that white pipe here and you decided that before I try to stick it down the side I was just going to go ahead and just test it out and see if it works I don't know why it's making like a weird noise this is frickin brand new I think I got this one last summer so I don't know it it took a good 30 seconds to some air popping out and finally waters going up in here and as you can see that one's working and that one's working now my pool guy he kind of put them on a little bit weird so I'm gonna eventually have to turn this off and get in the pool 60s when I feel like getting in but yes that I mean it was that rubber bladder was in there for about 15 minutes and it pretty much and then I'm gonna say pretty much cleared it up but I guarantee if I stop it again it's gonna do it again and I'm probably gonna have to put that bladder in so but we'll see because the next time I stop it because I'm gonna have to backwash it soon I'm gonna let this roll overnight and then see if there's some crud in there which there's probably gonna be some all righty well that's how you use a rubber bladder on your pool now if you need to it's right there if you need to it's good for working on tubs toilets sinks although you might need a small one for the tub and a sink but I think if you got a clogged toilet get one of these hook up a hose and push it through there I've seen some really good videos of some like of like hands house being clogged in and that just like pushed it out so anyway I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope it helps you and I mean if your setup is different than mine then you're gonna have to figure out how to do it your way cuz I see some people have some like some on/off knobs at the joint areas which I don't except for right there I don't know where they go and I don't know what they do so I don't touch those anyway this is the domestic jr. have a good one

Channel: Domestic Ginger

Views: 48,266

Rating: 3.4117646 out of 5

Keywords: unclog, rubber, bladder, pool, pipes, cobra, drain, blockage, clogged

Id: vvlj6lMQTQI

Length: 11min 9sec (669 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 05 2019