2006-09-04 06:24:52 · 9 answers · asked by juwa41312@sbcglobal.net 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Forget using a garden hose to syphon. Use your vac hose. Hook it all up, like you would to vac the pool, with pole and vac head in the pool, fill that hose with water, put your hand over the free end and pull it up and out, then down. Then let go and drag that now spewing hose to where you need the water to go. It's 1 1/2 inches wide, a lot more volume than a garden hose and will be done in a matter of a couple hours, versus days.
There are other ways, without renting or buying pumps, that are faster, but you don't say if this is a cartridge filterd pool or a sand filter and that would make a difference in this regard.
By the way, I hope this is an easy set pool that you're putting away or a doughboy type that you're getting a new liner in. Draining a pool for winter is really hard on the liner in doughboy types and sometimes, depending on the age of the liner, fatal. It's never a good idea.
2006-09-04 22:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by scubabob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your pool should have came with a attachment that you put on your garden hose and then put that attachment into the pool's drain plug and then release the drain plug from the inside and then put the other end of the garden hose where you want the water to go
2006-09-04 07:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by icecreaman232000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two options. Slow way siphon with a hose. Fast way use a submersible sump pump. Sump pump would be the style that is cast iron and total submerged not the pedestal type. You can buy a flexible hose with the sump. But then again you are talking about $120.00 for a sump set up vs $10.00 with a hose.
2006-09-04 06:37:55 · answer #3 · answered by g_e_d1960 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stick a garden hose in it, suck on the other end until you get a mouthful of water to get the syphon going and then just let it go until it's empty. You probably should weight down the end in the pool with a brick or something to keep it down on the bottom.
2006-09-04 06:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by RICK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the pool pump. Detach the return line and if its long enough hang in the pool, if not attach a hose and set the pump to discharge.
2006-09-04 07:28:32 · answer #5 · answered by audioworm31 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They sell hand held crank pumps where you would put the crank end inside the pool and hand crank the water out via attached hose,you can get an electric water pump or gas operated water pump.Look on internet you can find them everywhere.I dont think you want the hand crank it takes too much time.
2006-09-04 06:31:05 · answer #6 · answered by Tracy S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Use a hose as a siphon.
2006-09-04 06:30:15 · answer #7 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
poke a couple holes in the bottom
2006-09-04 08:26:23 · answer #8 · answered by John4no17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a mechanical pump or get a group of guys in there with buckets.....
2006-09-04 06:30:28 · answer #9 · answered by Equinox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋