We often buy or install a pool to make our lives a bit jollier, especially during the summers. Cleaning the pool is one job you have to do, and here you will learn how to make a pool vacuum using a garden hose.
Having a pool in your backyard can be a great addition to the luxurious look of your home. But buying or having one also comes with great responsibility.
Maintaining the pool water and the pool itself often gets too hard, and paying for professionals to do the job is too costly.
But here’s the thing, most new owners do not know much about improvising what you have within your household to use as a cleaning or maintenance tool.
You can use a simple garden hose to create negative space and make a tool that resembles a vacuum and functions like one.
The dust that the pool gathers from wind or our bodies that we bring into the pool sinks at the bottom. This might build-up into something worse, so it is important to keep the pool clean.
You will notice this dirt build-up at the bottom, especially with kiddie pools. See, kids often prefer jumping in and out of the pool to just relaxing in it.
The dirt, dust, and what they gather from the ground transfer into the pool, which gathers at the bottom of the pool.
Vacuuming the bottom of the pool is one of the most effective ways to keep it clean. However, pool vacuums come with a cost.
So improvising and making use of what you have will be much better. The tools you need are very common in a household, so you would not have difficulty finding them.
Why Is It Important To Clean The Bottom Of The Pool?
Cleaning the pool is not as easy as it looks. There are spots and areas in the pool that we often missed while cleaning, so bacteria thrive.
These areas are called dead spots where most build-up happens. Some examples of dead areas are the steps on the pool, the corners, and of course, the floor edges.
You see, the floor is often cleaned but not the edges. The corners where the wall and the floor meet are often ignored or simply not cleaned because they are hard to reach.
When you regularly use the pool or expose it to the natural elements, dirt can gather, and dust will settle at the pool’s bottom.
Naturally, at first, the dirt will gather at the center or at the part where the pool is deep. But once you get in the pool and make a motion, the dirt will stir up and grab hold on to edges that are often unnoticed.
Such as the corners. See, before that happens, you need to regularly clean the bottom of the pool while the dirt is still easy to reach.
It would be better to Vacuum as many times as possible. Even when the pool is not in use before and after swimming, it can still accumulate dust.
Also, take note of these other reasons why you should keep your pool clean:
1. Avoid unnecessary expenses-
Keeping your pool clean will cut your expenses. With less dirt to damage your pool, you will need fewer repairs on your pool.
Also, you would not have to worry about your family. See, having a clean pool means that you and your family can swim whenever you want clean water.
That means you can avoid medical bills from getting diseases from bacteria and algae build-up from a dirty pool.
It is a great addition to your house.
The overall aesthetic of a clean pool is very inviting when you see that the water is crystal clear, and you can look at it and see straight to the bottom.
Of course, no one would want to swim in the water that is dirty with who-knows-what. It is part of enjoying your pool that you know that you are safe.
If you have a great home, it is also right that the pool in your backyard is as pleasing or even more so than the house you live in.
2. Longevity
Enjoying your swimming time in the summer while sipping your favorite beverage in the pool is very relaxing. All you need to do, though, is maintain your pool.
Maintaining a pool starts with cleaning. The fact that you keep your pool clean at all times means that there will be no unnoticed build-ups of any health risk and destruction of your pool.
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Making A Pool Vacuum Using A Garden Hose
Here’s what you will need:
1. A Garden Hose
The Garden hose is very easy to find. It is a flexible tube that helps to extend the reach of your faucet and more.
You can find a hose of any length in your local hardware store.
2. The Vacuum Bag
This is an essential part of the Vacuum that you are about to make. Without a vacuum bag, chances are the dirt you have collected will go right back to your pool.
The vacuum bag acts as a filtering system where it still allows the water to pass through it, but it traps large and even small debris from the water.
3. A Plastic Funnel
A plastic funnel will help in doing the job faster, and since most garden hoses have small openings, the funnel acts as a larger hole for more area to clean at a time.
You can also improvise if you do not have a funnel (although funnels are pretty common in a household). You can cut a bottle at a 45-degree angle to act as a funnel.
4. A Telescoping Pool Pole
Do you know those small nets with a long hole used to remove leaves from the surface of the pool? That is what a telescoping pool pole is.
Sometimes you need to just skim on the pool’s surface and trap the leaves and other debris in the net to start the cleaning process; you will need the long pole to reach the bottom of the pool.
Although you will only need the pole, make sure that it is long enough to reach even the deepest part of your pool. You can also find any pole that can do the job.
Ensure that all of these tools are lean before proceeding to the steps below to ensure no additional dirt that might add to your pool.
You will also need to turn all the jets, water circulation, and filtering systems to prevent mixing the debris and dirt into the pool water when you are cleaning.
You need water in the pool to be stagnant to ensure that all the dirt has settled at the bottom for the Vacuum to work properly.
Step 1. Ensure the length of the hose
Make sure that the garden hose you are using is of the right size. Since there are different kinds of pools, you will also need different lengths of hose.
For example, an above-ground pool and a kiddie pool are usually not that large, so you will only need a short to medium length of hose.
While in-ground pools need a longer hose since there are deep parts of such a pool, they are usually very long and wide.
Step 2. Connect the Hose to the Vacuum Bag
Once you have the right length of hose that you need for your pool, connect it with the vacuum bag.
It is only right that you connect the vacuum bag to the right end of the hose. Vacuum bags are essential parts of a vacuum, and connecting them in the right place is just as important.
The garden hose connects to a valve that fits the Vacuum’s bypass. That is where you will connect the vacuum bag.
Step 3. Attach the Pole
Use the telescopic pool pole as the guiding handle of the Vacuum. You can do this by firmly attaching the pole to the hose.
You can use a knot to tie the pole to the hose using a rope or a string. Just make sure that it would not detach when you are moving the Vacuum around.
Step 4. Hold the Vacuum in place
Ensure that you hold the Vacuum tightly and slowly lower it into the poo until it reaches the bottom. You need to feel that the handle has reached the bottom before cleaning.
Ensuring that the Vacuum has reached the bottom will let you know that it has reached its maximum area capacity that the Vacuum can clean.
Step 5. Scan through the bottom of the pool
Once the Vacuum is all set, move it around the bottom of the pool slowly. Ensure that the pool’s dirtiest parts clean by letting the Vacuum stay there a little longer.
The suction from the vacuum bag’s negative space, plus the pool itself are water pressure, will be enough to push the water out of the pool and into the garden hose.
Thus, the filtering will take place as the dirt gets stuck in the vacuum bag. You need to scan slowly with the homemade Vacuum since it is not as powerful as the machine.
Let it suck all the dirt to get in one area before moving it to another place. You can also repeat the scanning process several times to ensure that you have cleaned the pool well.
Step 6. Get the Vacuum out of the pool
This step requires a lot of patience and calmness. Once you are done vacuuming and removing all the dirt, you can see from the pool’s bottom, slowly lift the Vacuum out.
Do it very slowly, so you do not get the dirt from the vacuum bag to mix again with the pool water you have cleaned.
Remove the garden hose’s pole by untying the knot and then removing the garden hose’s vacuum bag.
Empty the vacuum bag full of dirt in a safe place where the dirt and other chemicals will do no harm to either animal or plant life.
Conclusion
Having a swimming pool is a great addition to the fun that you can have within the vicinity of your homes.
Although sometimes maintaining one is very hard, especially if you do not have the tools to do it. There are proper machines to do such jobs, but you can also make your own from cheaper materials.
Keeping your pool clean should be added to the fun and not the hardship of maintaining a pool. So make sure that you have as much fun cleaning your pool as.
Vacuuming your pool is not easy, but you can surely do it. It prevents the build-up of bacteria and dirt at the bottom of your pool, therefore, making sure that the water you are in is clean.
If you do not have the proper equipment to vacuum your pool, consider making your own with the very simple and common materials mentioned above.
Follow the procedure on how to use a homemade vacuum properly, and you will surely clean your pool with the help of a garden hose.
For larger pools you can use a pool cleaner but that is just for pools where it is not humanly possible to clean every nook and crany.
Keep in mind that it is not very powerful, so you need a lot of patience in using a garden hose as a vacuum, but it will do the job, so go start and keep your pool clean!
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