I just moved in to a new house with a pool. How do I drain my swimming pool?

Answer 1

Rent or purchase a submersible pump. Careful where you run the discharge water. Some communities require it to be pumped into the sanitary sewer system. Others don't permit this. Check with local building codes department. Do not drain it so the water will go under the pool!

Answer 2

This is for howdigethere
Sorry m'man, but your syphon sucks. Lol . There's an easier way and..draping it over a chair???????That won't affect it at all, it's the end of the hose being lower than the water in the pool. You could run that hose over a building, but if the end isn't lower than the water in that pool it ain't going anywhere.
Want to get a syphon going the pool guy way? Put all of the hose in the pool. Sink the whole thing, but one end. Using whatever works and won't damage anything, find a way to make sure that the sunk end stays put, take your finger or palm and place over the dry end ( try to keep less than a foot or so out of the water at this point) . Now that you have made a good seal, walk down to where you will be draining to. Place that hose on the ground and take off your finger or palm. If that point is lower than the level in your pool, you will have a syphon going without your lips even touching the hose and very little effort on your part I used to use a vac hose (1 1/2 inches wide) to do this when I needed water levels down fast and no pump aboard the truck. It doubled the drain rate over just the pool pump alone.
as to the question at hand. Some pools have a main drain suction. If this is the case, it's a simple matter of selecting main drain as the source and switching your filter to drain,running your pump, letting the water out your backwash to wherever is appropriate and not going to cause any issues to anyone (catch basin is always good). If you use this option, remember to keep an eye on it, when the pool is nearly empty or starts to suck air from the main drain, that pump needs to be shut down.
If you don't have a main drain suction, I'm afraid you'll have to rent a submersible.

Answer 3

Two water hoses, connected, are needed. Place the end of the 2nd hose outside the pool on a slope. If there is no natural slope, drape the hose over a lawn chair or table - anything that will create a downward drop for the hose end. With the hoses connected together, turn on the water. Hold the connection under water (in the pool) and disconnect them. This will create a siphon.
The hard way would be to put one end of a hose in the pool and the other outside, suck until you turn blue and hope you can get a siphon started. Do it the easy way; use two hoses.
PS. Don't forget to turn off the water.

Answer 4

call a pool co to do it

Answer 5

Check this site

Answer 6

call a bunch of friends.
buy some buckets.
take out the water.
have a party.
:)

Answer 7

I found some good info here.

Answer 8

Hi.

Take a bucket..................