How to vacuum a pool to waste : cleaning a dirty pool

How to vacuum a pool to waste : cleaning a dirty pool

My pool had sat over winter without being cleaned. I needed to open it as the weather was improving but it was very dirty. I live in the Canary Islands and we had the worst Calima on record for more than 10 years. A Calima is a wind which blows from the east and brings dust from the Sahara Desert which it then dumps all over the islands.

Why vacuum a pool to waste? There was far too much dirt at the bottom for the sand filter to handle so I needed to vacuum to waste so that the dirty water went straight out into my front garden and not back into the pool.

Whenever you are cleaning a dirty pool you really need to put the multiport valve on waste.

The problem with vacuuming to waste is that the water level in the pool drops very fast so you have to work quickly.

I started the hose running into the pool and I also have an automatic top-up so water was going back in. Even so, in the 10 minutes it took me to vacuum to waste, the water level dropped by about 6 inches or more.

My aim wasn't to clean the pool thoroughly but just to remove the worst of the dirt. A few days later when whatever dust I had disturbed had settled I gave it another good clean using the filter setting.

I have to say this is probably the most satisfying pool cleaning of the year.

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