skimmer

I used a pool company to close my pool this year. I live in Philadelphia and it’s been a pretty cold winter. They used an aquadoor for the skimmer face with a gizmo installed. Today I noticed solid ice in the skimmer body all the way up to the top of the gizmo. Is this something I need to...

Hi all, I just noticed as I was reinstalling my Weir door that just below one of the Pivot Pins there is a 1/2 " long x about .020 thousandths crack.. Big enough to lose a lot of water every day.. But after dye testing there is absolutely no dye sucking into the crack, and No water loss at all...

Hello all, I have an in-ground pool with a 3/4 HP pump. I added a Vingli vacuum pool cleaner and found that it will only work if I shut off flow to the skimmer and drain. I'd obviously like to have the skimmer and drain running along with the pool vacuum. My question is should I install a...

Longtime lurker. Finally signed up as I need advice. My inground pool was built in 1974. Just replaced pool coping. The concrete on top of skimmer, over the throat(?), is breaking down due to age and likely because concrete deck has shifted. Steel is exposed (see photos). Can see where Dad...

Hello, I am currently/slowly restoring a hybrid pool that seems to have been installed in the 80-90's and will be redoing most of the pool myself. I will need to replace the skimmer but am struggling to find the same or like equivalent. (Photos attached). The main drain is a hayward with...

2023 season we took up concrete, had professionally installed new skimmer and new liner and a salt system added to our inground 18 x 36 pool. It was all completed, but the end of the season and we closed the pool. I had always been told you didn’t need to do any work with the saltwater pool and...

I’ve been frustrated by the changes in what I perceive in pressure in the system. I have a pool cleaner that says everything is fine but the cleaner moves around at different speeds. Sometimes very fast and sometimes slow. I took a video of the skimmer and I see things just going in and out of...

Hi all I've got a Plastica Nazca wooden AGP I'm building and it's not clear exactly how I should plumb up the pool outlet, skimmer (one pipe out) and vac point. I assume all three have to ultimately connect to the pump suction, but is there a specific order / flow I should use? There's two T...

So tonight i got home from work and heard my pool sucking a little bit of air. Walked over and the skimmer basket was full of debris, thought no big deal. Cleaned it out and also cleaned out the pump basket while i was at it. But after re installing everything and turning the pump back on it...

I manage a pool facility with two pools that use a skimming filtration system. One pool is for general play, and the other is for our waterslides. Each pool has four skimmers. From my understanding, there are two holes under each skimmer basket: The hole closest to the pool connects to the...

Hi everyone, my sister has a 28000 gallon pool that I'm maintaining, and the valve setup is shown in the attached photos (with pump, filter and booster pump). I heard when setting up manual vacuuming via skimmer, we typically keep the skimmer suction line open and close the drain suction...

So i started my pool up today after installing a new spider gasket in the valve. I primed them pump like always and had the valve set to filter. Started it up and it was pulling water from the skimmers but not sending it back out to the returns. And needless to say my filter just filled with...

Hey there!! I have an intex 15x48 stock c1000 pump and the delux skinmer. Pool is full of water, got the pump on. The return (blowing water) is great. I bought the skimmer put it on and there is no suction now. Do i plug an intake? Yes i installed the skimmer correctly. It’s about an inch half...

My 33,000 gallon 20x40 in ground that was built in 1973 and fiberglassed in 1995 is getting an overhaul. We are doing architectural work that requires removal of the pool decking as well as relocating the pool equipment pad. The pool leaks heavily at the tile line, the fiberglass is blistering...

I have what I believe to be a leak in the skimmer return. I have an in ground 20K gallon vinyl pool. I got about 13 years out of my liner and I'm having it replaced when it warms up in a month or so in Atlanta. Currently, my water level drops about an inch every two days. It stops dropping...

My pool has two skimmers and two main drains. The skimmers have two holes in the bottom, and the hole closest to the pool has a flap and seems to lead to a nearby inlet under the water line. From searching TFP, I gather that this is an "equalizer" to guarantee water flow to the pump inlet if...

Hello TFP, 3 year old pool and I'm experiencing cracking in both of my skimmers, in the decking above the skimmer block, and in the coping stone that bridges the skimmer throat. And I can't for the life of me figure out why this is happening. Have had a few companies come out and take a look...

This is not a question, it is to provide a heads-up to others who have older Pentair skimmer boxes in their pools and wish to replace a broken weir with an original equipment Pentair weir. I have been using universal weirs that work fairly well but often come loose due to the heavy sloshing of...

Hi All, I seem to have an issue with my skimmer flappers breaking every year. They always break in the same place - right at the pin. This year, one broke, I repaired and reinforced it and it broke again. Then the other flapper just broke yesterday. Understandably, the kids using the pool...

Hello All, I have an 18’ x 52“ Intex ABG pool with their 1,600 gal/hr pump/sand filter system attached. We recently added a Hayward ABG skimmer to the pool and also installed the return that came with the skimmer. We’re amazed at how much more flow that created through that pump! The issue...

I am installing a 12' x 27' x 5' vinyl liner pool and need advice on water circulation. My PB provided the following schematic, to which I added our water feature wall (will not remain on all the time). There is no main drain. 1) Skimmer: Is one sufficient for my size of pool? As drawn, the...

Is there any good way to identify an old skimmer? Is there any place that a serial/model # would have been molded into one of the parts? I need to replace a skimmer faceplate, gasket, and the entire set of faceplate screws and am having a hard time finding what I need. Thanks

When I vac to waste, when the water level drops below the skimmer, I lose pump prime and can no longer vac. How can I keep keep vac'ing in that situation? Seems that main drain doesn't suck at all. I noticed skimmer had one of the two holes plugged and I've been unable to unscrew that plug...

Hello all! I’m hoping for some advice. I recently bought a house with a pool in Florida (house and pool built in 95’). I noticed the pool skimmer was not working after buying the house and checking the equipment out. I called a pool company out and they tried to flush the lines with air and...

Hi! Opened up to a nearly crystal clear pool again but quickly noticed that my Hayward skimmer is badly cracked and needs to be replaced. We are not the original purchasers of this pool so I have no clue what style it is. It really looks like it isnt a standard wide mouth but has a wide mouth...

I truly enjoy and appreciate every single person on TFP. This has helped greatly with me being a new pool owner. I’ve come a long way since last year and also just completed my first SLAM. My water was a swamp and it did take a month, yes a month, to get it perfect.I was getting impatient and a...

Hi All, As I prepare for my first closing on my own, I've been reading up on what to put in my skimmer. My PB closed the pool last year and used these 16ish inch Skim Insure gizmo-like tubes (https://www.amazon.com/CMP-Blowout-Winter-Skimmer-Guard/dp/B005IZPJB2). They worked well (you can...

Hey everyone! I’m new to pool ownership and it’s been raining a lot lately. I notice that my overflow is always clogged (blossoms from a tree, June bugs head first in the pipe stuck). I keep having to use a hose to flush it out. Does anyone know of a simple product I can put on this...

Hi All, Attached is a pic of my pool, yellow is the skimmer and green are the return jets, the end of the pool closet to the bottom of the pic is the shallow end. Ive been trying for the past week to set them up to get good circulation going and have debris enter the skimmer but im at a loss...

To begin with, we have a somewhat rigged set up for our inground pool filter. The underground pipe from the sand filter that sends the filtered water back into the pool is broken. Rather than breaking up the concrete to replace it, we have it rigged with a large hose that leads from the filter...