How to Vacuum A Summer Waves Pool: A Guide to Set-Up & Vacuuming Method

You have set your summer waves pool. Now, it’s time to enjoy the excitement of swimming. But the challenging part that comes to arise is to maintain your pool. When it comes to maintaining, keeping the pool water clean is the number one workflow. 

To clean water, you need a pool vacuum. There are many types of vacuums for cleaning the pool. A filtered vacuum is the best among them because it is cost-effective, durable, and comes with greater suction to pick up debris. 

In this how-to guide, we will show you how to vacuum a summer waves pool. The best part is- we also let you learn how to hook up a vacuum to the summer waves pool. So, let’s get started right here. 

How to Set Up and Vacuum a Summer Waves Pool?

Setting up the vacuum and cleaning with it takes a lot of elbow grease. This chapter will help you with hooking up the vacuum and cleaning the water using the vacuum.

Step 1: Prepare your pool for cleaning

Before starting the vacuuming process ensures the below steps:

• Remove floating chlorine dispensers or chlorine tablets from the pool skimmer basket, if you have any.
• Stop the filter with the pump to prevent water from flowing around.
• Wait a few hours to settle the particles and keep them still.
• Lighter particles will start to float above the water surface
• Use a Pool leaf Rake/Skimmer to remove floating dirt, debris, or leaves.

Step 2: Set Up Your Pool Vacuum

Now, follow the below steps to set up the vacuum.

• Attach the vacuum head to the open end of the telescopic pole. 
• Start the filter and pump
• Then, tie up one end of the hose to the vacuum head.
• Put the vacuum head, telescopic pole, and one end of the hose in your pool. Make sure the vac head reaches and touches your pool floor. 
• Now, what you need to do is- attach the other end of the hose to the return jet in your pool. It allows water to go through the hose and drive out all of the air. You can see bubbles coming out from the vacuum head on the floor of your pool. If all of the bubbles stop rising, understand there is no air in the hose. 
• Secure the plate to the end of the hose you attached against the returning jet. Fasten the opening with your hand and put it forward to the skimmer. Ensure you create a seal. Otherwise, you will lose suction. You can ignore this step if you are not using a skim vac plate.
• If you don’t use the vacuum plate, you should remove the basket located in the skimmer. Next, block the end of the water-filled hose using your hand. Afterward, put the hose into your skimmer. When placing the hose, ensure it is firmly placed into the suction hole, which is located at the bottom of the skimmer. 

Step 3: Start Vacuuming Your Pool

After setting up your pool vacuum, it’s time to learn how to use it to vacuum your summer waves pool.

• Use an extended sweeping stroke to pick away dirt and debris. 
• Vacuum the pool slowly. Otherwise, dirt will come up, which can make the pool water cloudy. 
• If the vacuum head gets stuck to the bottom of your pool, turn the pump off first for a few seconds to break the vacuum force. 
• Don’t forget to check the pool’s filter pressure gauge as you vacuum. If the pressure goes up to 10 pounds over the regular running pressure, take a break and backwash the filter.  

Frequently Asked Questions

Conclusion

Removing dirt and debris and keeping your pool water clean is a must. In this case, a vacuum is the first piece of equipment you need to clean the water. 

From the above, you learned how to vacuum a summer wave pool. Apart from these, we also mentioned the way of putting the pool vacuum together.

We hope you can now clean the water by following the guidelines we discussed above.