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Roc Doc

Roc Doc

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The swimming pool is surrounded by trees that dump a fair amount of leaves and blossoms into the water. It's not a huge pool, maybe 10,000 gallons but I have a 4 cartridge filter system so that I don't have to clean them every couple weeks. Did the filter cleaning on Saturday, and in the bottom of the filter housing was a bunch of fine silt and decaying leaves, so I scooped out as much as I could, but then it gets suspended in the water and is impossible to get clean, I thinks to myself maybe a transfer pump to evacuate it, same with the sump of the decorative fountain/waterfall. Amazon has about a million options, so if I use a clear water pump to due this, will it die the first time I run some grungy water through it. These pumps are pretty cheap, under $150 and most of them look like they came out of the same Chinese factory.

I don't want a submersible as I won't be able to get it all out, a xfer style makes more sense.

This one is at least cast iron, it looks to be not self-priming, but that's OK.

O-Pinions?

https://www.harborfreight.com/12-hp-cast-iron-transfer-pump-1525-gph-63316.html
 
Go big or go home..

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I actually have no idea :homer:
 
Pick whatever color cordless tools you already have and get their battery version.

I'm a cheapass with Ryobi stuff and use this to pump out the hot tub in my rental. 1.5" discharge pumps the ~300 gallon tub in about 10 minutes.
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Only problem is it doesn't get the last ~1" or so off the bottom, so I use one of these with a bottom adapter to get the last little bit.

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pick up a used 1/2 or 3/4hp pool pump. Attach extension cord to it. Add some piping to connect a vac hose on the suction side. And some pipe to shoot it past the deck into the desert, or attach a hose too. Then vacuum to waste. You can borrow my pump if you want, you'd just have to pick it up at my house in Glendale.

Or even easier and cheaper...add a 3 way valve at the outlet of your filter pump and just use it to vacuum to waste.
 
If you have real fine stuff that doesn't really settle out, look into the Waterway cyclone. It works like a Dyson vacuum. It plumbs in between the pump and filter, and could probably trap a lot of the fine debris
 
Milwaukee transfer pump. I used that bitch on old oil tanks, gas station drop catch bins, tanker trucks, old sludgy con-vaults, gas tanks, you name it.

Ran clear water through it after every use and probably still running now.

It’s basically a boat impeller wrapped in expensive red plastic. Was fast also.
 
arse_sidewards said:
I bought that exact pump when the product line was new-ish ~7yr ago. I can vouch for that pump having no problem eating the a few hundred gallons of the suspended rust that comes out of a residential steam boiler once a year and sitting the other 364 days.

I would have no problem feeding it the occasional leaf. Twigs and maple seed pods would give me pause.
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My brother in law used one for his fish tank pump. It worked fine.
 
anything Harbor freight will work fine
anything shop vac sill work fine
a drain will work
I think OP is really overthinking this task
 
Buy the cheapest bilge pump you can find and power it with a tool battery. We aren't talking about emptying the whole pool here. :laughing:
 
2JZ said:
pick up a used 1/2 or 3/4hp pool pump. Attach extension cord to it. Add some piping to connect a vac hose on the suction side. And some pipe to shoot it past the deck into the desert, or attach a hose too. Then vacuum to waste. You can borrow my pump if you want, you'd just have to pick it up at my house in Glendale.

Or even easier and cheaper...add a 3 way valve at the outlet of your filter pump and just use it to vacuum to waste.
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Thx anyway, but I just like to have stuff like this on hand. Since there are no fire hydrants in my hood, if there's ever another fire, I can use pool water.

2JZ said:
If you have real fine stuff that doesn't really settle out, look into the Waterway cyclone. It works like a Dyson vacuum. It plumbs in between the pump and filter, and could probably trap a lot of the fine debris
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Thx, I'll look into that. First step is to cut the trees way back, that wind we had the other day fucked me.
 
Roc Doc said:
Thx anyway, but I just like to have stuff like this on hand. Since there are no fire hydrants in my hood, if there's ever another fire, I can use pool water.



Thx, I'll look into that. First step is to cut the trees way back, that wind we had the other day fucked me.
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It's Waterco, not Waterway apparently.

Why not just use your pool pump with a waste valve, sucking off main drain? Or have both.
 
Add said:
Why don't you just unthread the drain cap like a normal human would? Every filter tank has one. Its job is to literally do what you're trying to do.
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😀 guess I never looked down there. Still need a pump for the water feature
 
Apparently reading comprehension isnt my strong suit. I thought OP was trying to get the fine stuff out of the pool, not the filter.

So..what ADD said. Pull the drain plug. The turn the filter pump on to wash the tank out.
 
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