Rain Flooding Your Pool; 2 Different Ways To Drain Your Swimming Pool!

When winter hits, so does the heavy rains. If you are a pool owner and are concerned with the heavy rain overflowing your swimming pool, here are a couple of tips that can help you prevent some severe flooding damage. Being a pool guy for the past 15 years, I have seen plenty of incidence of pool owners in a panic wondering how they were going to reduce there water level in there swimming pool. If you don't have a sump pump and are need to drain down the pool water level, I have 2 simple suggestions for you.

First try running the water level down by utilizing your swimming pool equipment. The swimming pool equipment is always the easiest and best way to help drain down you pool water level. This can be done by utilizing your pool filter. If you have either a sand or DE filter with a backwash valve. With the swimming pool equipment turned off, turn your backwash valve over to the backwash setting. If your backwash valve is not pre-plumbed into a drainage port, hook up a pool backwash hose to the backwash valve and run it out to a safe place where the water will drain away from your house. For some people this would be the street, assuming the street you live on has proper drainage. After the rain is over, make sure to add additional DE back into the filter as all the DE will be flushed from your swimming pool filter.

If your swimming pool equipment does not have a sand or DE filter that will allow you to backwash the water out to a safe location then try this. Using a 3/4 inch garden hose, stretch it out to from the swimming pool to a safe location for the water to drain. You may need more than one hose to do this. Turn on your pool pump. With the female side of your garden hose, hold it as close as possible to one of the return lines inside the swimming pool wall. Sometimes by wrapping a red rag or small towel around the female side of the garden hose will help you achieve a good seal.

Remember: The water will begin to create a vacuum inside the garden hose creating a draft - only as long as the opposite end of the garden hose is lower than the side where the water will be entering into the garden hose. This part of the operation is crucial. Hold the hose there for about 45-60 seconds to make sure water is flowing out the opposite end of the garden hose. It helps to have some one else helping you with this procedure. As soon as the water is flowing, and as long as the male side of the garden hose is lower than the female side you will be able to pull the female side of the garden hose away from the return line and place it at the exact level that you want to drain the pool water down to. Usually a good placement for the garden hose once a draft is created is the mid tile line.

Tip: this task helps if you have one more person at the other end of the hose to make sure water is flowing properly.

Both of these tips are very effective in draining down a swimming pool. Of course I recommend using the swimming pool equipment as it is the most effective method to drain your pool down to a safe water level with in your pool. Once the rain has stopped, it is a wise decision to have a pool professional install and plumb in a water drain valve at your swimming pool equipment. This is done on the discharge side of your pool pump. This will allow you to easily drain water out of your swimming pool down to a safe level within your pool. Good luck and stay dry out there, it's going to be a cold and wet winter!

By: RPS Blogger

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