how do you drain an above ground pool if you want to take it down?

Question

have already starting draining pool but have about a foot left to go and the hose cant get enough pressure to bring the rest out

Answer 1

I know it sounds foolish but if you have one of those stupid small rock fountains in the house that were so popular a few years ago,take the small pump out of it. its about the size of a cigarette pack. buy 7 feet of small hose from hardware store (a buck a foot) put it on discharge end and put it in pool and put hose through filter discharge port on wall in pool, disconnect it first, of course.and plug in pump, it will work faster than you think. couple hours, i use it to pump a foot of water off my pool cover every year after winter. my pools 16x30

Answer 2

Just did this, be ready it isnt fun. Try to pick a spot thats already pretty level, because whatever side is higher you will have to dig out...you cant just add sand to the low side. (Doesnt work) I put 9 stakes in the ground...1 in center and 8 around the perimeter of the pool. Just like the guy above said use a laser level and mark your spots on all the stakes. To be sure I was dead on I ran string from each outside stake to the center stake making sure the string was level and I basically measured with a yard stick the depth from the string to the ground making sure everywhere was exactly the same depth. You could probably skip this step and get by with your markings but I didnt want to have to drain the pool and do it all over agin if it was a little off somewhere. It wont be perfectly smooth so just add some sand and level the sand the same way and pack it down and you should be all set...GOOD LUCK (cuz I picked a spot to put mine where itd be right in the sun to heat the water, and it wasnt close to level (way off)...I did a lot of digging and leveling, have fun hope this helps

Answer 3

We just drained a 16x32 foot Doughboy pool....
DH took a hose and put it near the pool, attached and extension to it and the faucet... turned the faucet on, to fill the hoses, had me turn off the faucet that had 2nd hose squirting into pool, then he disconnected the two hoses, tossing the one connected to the faucet in the yard,

While holding UP the end of the hose ......okay... faucet is A, other end is B, conected to C and D is Dumping in the pool....

He disconnected b and c and held C up to keep water in the hose and had me toss D as quickly as I could into the deep end of the pool and he took off with C and it drained for 2 days into the unlandscaped area of the property.

Anyway... if you fill the hose with water before you put it IN the water, you don't have to try to manually suck it out to siphon it.

We got all but about 20 gallons out before we hooked up the sump pump. We (okay, HE...) used 2 hoses for 2 days, before we went to one and the pump.

Answer 4

I suggest getting a wet/dry shop vacuum with the hose attachment and let the machine do all the hard work. A plus to this idea is you can also clean the pool liner before putting it away for the season.

Answer 5

before you take apart one side, (hopefully the lower end and it is not facing your neighbor) dig a drainage ditch so the water will go into the ground . It won't have to be deep (maybe a foot by deep and a nd 2 foot wide). this should take care of it.

Answer 6

I'm goin to 2nd the just take it down. Your going to get your feet wet. I don't know about all that dig digging. The water will do that on its own if it needs two but the flow should be wide when the side falls.

Answer 7

You can get a 110-volt pump from Home Depot for less than $100

Answer 8

if its an intex pool let the air out og the ring
or
get a glass and start bailing.

Answer 9

use a shop wet/dry vac if you have one. this was the only way we could finish draining our pool.

Answer 10

Take it down is the best thing I can think of.