This video is the single most helpful video on UA-cam. Watched it once, spent two minutes setting up my hose, and it worked perfectly first try. Kudos sir, this is genius!
Thank you! My husband swears that you have to suck on the hose... When he was taking a nap, I used your method.. When he woke up, I told him that I got the pool to start siphoning... I told him that it tasted terrible.. He believed me!!!
I siphoned my pool this morning and had to suck the hose a little because some water escaped while dragging the hose around. Once all the air was out gravity did the rest.
Thank you! This easy trick saved my house from flooding tonight in California. Setup 3 siphons to drain the backyard to the front when the french drain couldn't handle the inflow from record rain. Almost came up over the slab, just barely saved the house.
I seriously feel so proud of myself for being able to do this 😂 summer has just finished in my part of the world and I let my kids pool go green because I had no idea how to drain it! Checking on that hose and seeing the water still running out of it is just awesome!! 😂💦 Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 😎🙏👍💜
I’ve been doing the same thing for years. But an even easier way is to charge the hose same as you did, except I put the one end in the pool then turn hose on. Once all the air is out of hose, disconnect the opposite end from spigot and lay it there. Siphon complete.
Vinh Trinh yes. The whole idea is to get all the air out of the hose. Once the water is flowing into the cover, turn off the spigot and disconnect the hose from the spigot. The siphon will begin to flow as you disconnect. Just be sure to not lift the hose higher than the point at which you're draining. I've done a similar thing when I didn't have a gas siphon or didn't want a mouth full of gasoline when I wanted to drain fuel from a gas tank. I would get a funnel and long piece of fuel line. Insert into tank, apply funnel and pour dry gas, carb cleaner or some other liquid fuel additive into the funneled fuel line. Once the line fills with liquid and you pull the funnel off and drop the line lower than the tank, fuel will begin to siphon out. Just make sure you have enough liquid to fill the full length of line completely otherwise all you will drain is only what you poured in and the siphon will stop.
Made it more complicated than it needs to be. Just stick one end in the pool turn on your hose until it’s flowing into the pool and then just quickly detach it from the water. As the water begins running backwards out your end of the hose, it creates the siphon. All done. Put the hose where you want it to drain.
Thanks for sharing!! I was able to successfully siphon the water out of my pool with a hose for the first time by watching your video! Now I'm a professional lol. My mom and I was both shocked it worked and it saved us some money. Thanks again!🙂🙌😉
We added an inflatable pool to our summer routine when the pandemic started. This video was invaluable last fall and again this year. I fully expect to return in 2022 when I've once again forgotten how to do this. Thank you so much!
I've just filled the hose up in the pool, sealed the end with my thumb while under water, pull that end out sealed until I get it to a lower point than the pool, then just let it go. Same result. No need to prefill at a faucet or drag it over to the pool while filled. Just be careful to get as much air out while filling in the pool. To do that, slowly slide the hose into the pool foot by foot.
My faucet is inside the house so don’t want to mess with a hose full of water disconnected in the house. So i use this method for years and it simply works. Recently got a new hose, one that shrinks. Usual trick doesn’t really work with those, atleast for me. But the method itself is sound! Just wanted to say that. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
This hack saved me from emptying the pool at were I live and now I didn't have to do it in the scorching heat , so thank you so much cause you literally saved me
Thank you thank you thank you. My spa and pool are on the same underground pipes. The spa has turned green but not the pool. Now I can easily siphon the water from the spa thanks to you... well done video. Simple and to the point with no fluff before or after...
Awesome tip. So easy to do. Set it up and waited...nothing....thought bugga what did i do wrong...then out comes a trickle and then boom the flow...the glorious flow! Thanks heaps.
You have quite possibly just saved my life!! We just drained our pool completely ready to clean, then impending rain forced us to put the cover back on, we've had so much rain, now our cover is full, I was imagining me with a wet and dry vac, inside the pool for days!! Thank you!
Thanks for this. I’m amazed at how easy it actually was to do. I mean it always looks so easy on UA-cam videos and then when you come to do it you have a total nightmare on your hands. Thanks chap, just saved me £50 odd for not buying an electric pump 👍🏼 🇬🇧
This man is a GENIUS!!!!! I needed to drain my in-ground SPA. I am a female who didn't want to chance screwing something up on my pool system by moving a lot of "valves" to have the water drain into the pool. It took a few times to get the water flowing out of the hose, but it finally worked!!!!! SIMPLE & it DOES WORK!!!!
Heck yes 🙌 Thanks so much!! My ass was going to suck the hose until it started to flow the water out😆 I couldn't come to terms with that so you saved me a major icky hassle and money!! Keep doing what you do🙏❤
Thanks mate! Worked for me the second time. I found that once you charge it with water, it helps to cover the top of the hose with your thumb before you place the female end into the pool. This creates a vacuum like effect in the hose and ensure you hold the charge. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for teaching us this trick. I have an old pump that doesn’t work well and my teenage boys were having a hard time draining all the extra water off the cover but once they watched your video it was easy as you said! Thank you again!
Your video was a tremendous help to resolve a perplexing problem. Your method worked beautifully to remove water easily- without digging a trench. Thank you so much!
Brilliant...and thanks for taking the time to make this video! I'm just taking a break from trying to get a siphon going the "old fashioned way" and damn near drown myself (not to mention the bugs that are probably swimming around in my gut)! Much appreciation!
This is amazing! I've been trying and trying to empty my swim spa and this fixed my problem in 1 minute. I know this was 5 years ago but thank you! Thank you so so much!
Thank you so much for this! I have a small inflatable pool and wanted to change out the water. Used this trick with multiple hoses and it drained in no time!
@@coffinjoezombie8038 the method is wack asf but it will make a siphon. normally you would just submerge the whole hose cover one end pull it under the surface of the water uncover and bam a siphon but this also works
@@coffinjoezombie8038 if you get it down it will work everytime probably just a little finicky tbh I've never tried or needed to. Ive just read a whole bunch of papers describing how it works and stuff
Thank you for this video I kind of thought what if I fill up the hose completely then siphon the pool, but until I saw your video I didn't think filling it up first would work...BUT IT DID WORK!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Yea turtle poop is definitely not good for ya.😂😂😂 Hope he's ok though. My father used to do this also every year when removing a the excess water from the pool cover.
SO helpful! We had some torrential rains here in CA and this helped drain out all the water that collected own the pool cover (and hopefully will help prevent mosquitos too!)
Thanks!! This works well. My trusty submersible pump passed away yesterday. I took a moment. I needed to drain a few trash cans I used to collect rain water. The pump, clearly, is much faster and I’ll need to replace it before I empty and clean the hot tub in a few months but this worked!!
Saw this awhile back but didn't try it till today!! Yea!! It worked. I put two hoses in so maybe it won't take as long we shall see. Thanks so much for the quick video
Thank you! Just did it! First time didn’t work but worked on the second. It’s going to take a long time but it was something I could do on my own without my husbands help 👍
put the whole hose in the water then plug one end with your hand then pull the one end bellow the surface of the water and unplug it and let gravity do the rest. science is very cool
I have never had to do this myself before. This video was so informative and it worked!! I had to do it twice since my hose came out of the pool but did it again and the water is coming out. Thanks for doing these types of videos.
I just noticed the water level on my in ground pool was at/above the cement coping and I dont have a cover pump (first winter w a pool). And obviously in summer, you can use the pool pump side outlet to drain excess water, but it is winter and pump is off, lines are blown dry and plugged. I watched this video and thought, no way it's gonna be this easy. For anyone w an inground, as long as the draining end of the hose is at a lower grade than the intake, it will still work. Lucky, I have a slope at the back edge of my yard and a long hose! This took me no more than 2 minutes to accomplish. Thank you!!!
You are the man! I was trying to relocate our basketball hoop and realized that the hoop has no drain plug! You literally would have to tip the entire hoop over (and it's very heavy) to try and drain the water from the top of the base...very stupid design. Anyway, I saw your video and it worked like a charm...45 minutes later I was able to move the hoop after siphoning out most of the water! Thank you for this video!
Thank you so much for your video. Your video saved me from wasting my time and money. I did just as you showed in your video and the rain water on my pool cover is almost gone now!
You just saved me $50 didn't have to buy a Shop-Vac it took one hour and my pool cover was clear of water. It didn't work the 1st time but the 2nd time got it flowing. Thanks man you're a genius.
I wish I had watched this the other day. My water pump motor wouldn't work after a huge rainstorm. I had rainwater filling up under my house in the crawlspace. I decided to try to siphon with a garden hose. I put one end in the water under the house and took the other end way down the hill. I started sucking on the hose but didn't think it was working then it surprised me and I got all that nasty water in my mouth and spray in my lungs. I thought I was going to get sick from all the bacteria in my mouth and lungs hoping that none of the sewer joints under the water had a leak. Luckily I didn't get sick. I'll do it your way from now on.
Great info! I have a small deck about to collapse under load and need to drain the water fast and this seems the fastest easiest way to start draining.
This video is the single most helpful video on UA-cam. Watched it once, spent two minutes setting up my hose, and it worked perfectly first try. Kudos sir, this is genius!
Excellent video. I couldn't described it better than @pkmntrainerc9278. Soooo easy!
Thank you! My husband swears that you have to suck on the hose... When he was taking a nap, I used your method.. When he woke up, I told him that I got the pool to start siphoning... I told him that it tasted terrible.. He believed me!!!
I siphoned my pool this morning and had to suck the hose a little because some water escaped while dragging the hose around. Once all the air was out gravity did the rest.
Thank you! This easy trick saved my house from flooding tonight in California. Setup 3 siphons to drain the backyard to the front when the french drain couldn't handle the inflow from record rain. Almost came up over the slab, just barely saved the house.
Thank you from a single mother who has no idea about how to do this stuff!! 😎👍
I seriously feel so proud of myself for being able to do this 😂 summer has just finished in my part of the world and I let my kids pool go green because I had no idea how to drain it! Checking on that hose and seeing the water still running out of it is just awesome!! 😂💦 Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 😎🙏👍💜
Me too lol
I was 100% skeptical, I gave it a go and omg it’s working! Thankyou so much for this tutorial!!
You're welcome!
I’ve been doing the same thing for years. But an even easier way is to charge the hose same as you did, except I put the one end in the pool then turn hose on. Once all the air is out of hose, disconnect the opposite end from spigot and lay it there. Siphon complete.
Hello Flash, Haven't tried it yet until season ends. Do you turn off the water then disconnect the opposite end?
Vinh Trinh yes. The whole idea is to get all the air out of the hose. Once the water is flowing into the cover, turn off the spigot and disconnect the hose from the spigot. The siphon will begin to flow as you disconnect. Just be sure to not lift the hose higher than the point at which you're draining. I've done a similar thing when I didn't have a gas siphon or didn't want a mouth full of gasoline when I wanted to drain fuel from a gas tank. I would get a funnel and long piece of fuel line. Insert into tank, apply funnel and pour dry gas, carb cleaner or some other liquid fuel additive into the funneled fuel line. Once the line fills with liquid and you pull the funnel off and drop the line lower than the tank, fuel will begin to siphon out. Just make sure you have enough liquid to fill the full length of line completely otherwise all you will drain is only what you poured in and the siphon will stop.
My way as well
Once you get the siphon going can you use the hose to suck up sand from bottom of pool
Michelle Carrell I yes indeed. I’ve done that too.
Made it more complicated than it needs to be. Just stick one end in the pool turn on your hose until it’s flowing into the pool and then just quickly detach it from the water. As the water begins running backwards out your end of the hose, it creates the siphon. All done. Put the hose where you want it to drain.
Thanks bro his method did not work but yours did.thanks
Thank you so much. So simple and EVERY written explanation looks written in another language to me, this video is so simple! Can’t thank you enough!
Thanks for sharing!! I was able to successfully siphon the water out of my pool with a hose for the first time by watching your video! Now I'm a professional lol. My mom and I was both shocked it worked and it saved us some money. Thanks again!🙂🙌😉
Thank you so much for this simple solution for a 68 yr old trying to drain a 150 gallon horse trough. You're a lifesaver.
What am I doing wrong it's not working for me .. 😭
We added an inflatable pool to our summer routine when the pandemic started. This video was invaluable last fall and again this year. I fully expect to return in 2022 when I've once again forgotten how to do this. Thank you so much!
I've just filled the hose up in the pool, sealed the end with my thumb while under water, pull that end out sealed until I get it to a lower point than the pool, then just let it go. Same result. No need to prefill at a faucet or drag it over to the pool while filled. Just be careful to get as much air out while filling in the pool. To do that, slowly slide the hose into the pool foot by foot.
yep this is the easier way that doesn't require anything other than a tube
Best method!
My faucet is inside the house so don’t want to mess with a hose full of water disconnected in the house. So i use this method for years and it simply works.
Recently got a new hose, one that shrinks. Usual trick doesn’t really work with those, atleast for me.
But the method itself is sound!
Just wanted to say that.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
This hack saved me from emptying the pool at were I live and now I didn't have to do it in the scorching heat , so thank you so much cause you literally saved me
You seriously just made my life a lot easier! Thank you for this tip!!!
Thank you thank you thank you. My spa and pool are on the same underground pipes. The spa has turned green but not the pool. Now I can easily siphon the water from the spa thanks to you... well done video. Simple and to the point with no fluff before or after...
Awesome tip. So easy to do.
Set it up and waited...nothing....thought bugga what did i do wrong...then out comes a trickle and then boom the flow...the glorious flow!
Thanks heaps.
This was so helpful and easy! I'm never going back to siphoning any other way. Thank you so much!
You have quite possibly just saved my life!! We just drained our pool completely ready to clean, then impending rain forced us to put the cover back on, we've had so much rain, now our cover is full, I was imagining me with a wet and dry vac, inside the pool for days!! Thank you!
Thanks for this. I’m amazed at how easy it actually was to do. I mean it always looks so easy on UA-cam videos and then when you come to do it you have a total nightmare on your hands. Thanks chap, just saved me £50 odd for not buying an electric pump 👍🏼 🇬🇧
This man is a GENIUS!!!!! I needed to drain my in-ground SPA. I am a female who didn't want to chance screwing something up on my pool system by moving a lot of "valves" to have the water drain into the pool.
It took a few times to get the water flowing out of the hose, but it finally worked!!!!!
SIMPLE & it DOES WORK!!!!
Heck yes 🙌 Thanks so much!! My ass was going to suck the hose until it started to flow the water out😆 I couldn't come to terms with that so you saved me a major icky hassle and money!! Keep doing what you do🙏❤
Thanks mate! Worked for me the second time. I found that once you charge it with water, it helps to cover the top of the hose with your thumb before you place the female end into the pool. This creates a vacuum like effect in the hose and ensure you hold the charge.
Thanks again!
Exactly
I’m a first timer winterizing my pool. And OMG! I knew that method but It never occurred to me to use it to drain the pool!! Galley!
Thank you so much for teaching us this trick. I have an old pump that doesn’t work well and my teenage boys were having a hard time draining all the extra water off the cover but once they watched your video it was easy as you said! Thank you again!
Your video was a tremendous help to resolve a perplexing problem. Your method worked beautifully to remove water easily- without digging a trench. Thank you so much!
Thank you we were trying to figure out how to siphon some water off my pool, you just made me very happy
You’re the best at teaching this!!
Brilliant...and thanks for taking the time to make this video! I'm just taking a break from trying to get a siphon going the "old fashioned way" and damn near drown myself (not to mention the bugs that are probably swimming around in my gut)! Much appreciation!
You're welcome!
Hey speak, I did that today an inhaled a little bit lol, did u end up getting sick or anything after swallowing a little bit?
@speakez
@@pinealpinecone7060 you should be fine I was just as paranoid as you when I got some water in my mouth
This is amazing! I've been trying and trying to empty my swim spa and this fixed my problem in 1 minute. I know this was 5 years ago but thank you! Thank you so so much!
It worked immediately!! Thank you for the explanation and elaboration . God bless you bro
Thank you for taking the time to help us! You're wonderful!
Great presentation, clear and concise.
Thank you so much for this! I have a small inflatable pool and wanted to change out the water. Used this trick with multiple hoses and it drained in no time!
I tried this just now and it really works. Thank u so much, u saved me from buying a sump pump 😀
Glad to hear that
Nope doesn't work
@@coffinjoezombie8038 the method is wack asf but it will make a siphon. normally you would just submerge the whole hose cover one end pull it under the surface of the water uncover and bam a siphon but this also works
@@lightningmcqueen1717 it took me at least 20x to get it working lol 😂 thanks again
@@coffinjoezombie8038 if you get it down it will work everytime probably just a little finicky tbh I've never tried or needed to. Ive just read a whole bunch of papers describing how it works and stuff
Thank you for this video I kind of thought what if I fill up the hose completely then siphon the pool, but until I saw your video I didn't think filling it up first would work...BUT IT DID WORK!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
That actually worked!!! Wow. Thanks for this tip.
Hey! I am 86 years old and for the first time in my life I started a siphon to drain my pool! Thanks!!!!!
That’s awesome!! Thanks for telling me. Made me smile
Thank you so much! 👏🏼 Just tried this in Glasgow, Scotland and it worked perfectly!
You’re welcome Ryan, thanks for posting.
Ty after a few tries at this known trick I couldn't get it to work. U made it more simple and it worked. Bless you ❤
You are a lifesaver. This worked really well for us! Thank you.
You're welcome!! Glad it helped you out
Thank you so much! Great explanation. Siphoning the washing machine
I just tried it and it worked. (My dad wasn’t impressed with my new skill) 🤷🏽♀️ Anyhoo, thank you for the advice 💙
I’m impressed
👀
Yea well he was probably jealous that you figured it out and not him.
Btw....good job!! Thankyou for sharing this with us. Now I will definitely try this method. 🤩
@@BenFreedmanRacing same here
Unbelievably easy!! I used a shop vac last weekend...took forever!!
THANKS!!!!
Saw my paw do the ole straw technique got a mouthful of 2 stroke might have to show him this one. Awesome video!
Thanks. Works like charm!love the Midwest accent!
Years ago my husband used his mouth on the hose to suck out the water from a small turtle pond. Day later he got sick from salmonella. lol true story.
Yea turtle poop is definitely not good for ya.😂😂😂
Hope he's ok though.
My father used to do this also every year when removing a the excess water from the pool cover.
Science is a b*tch sometimes
this is why you put a thin cloth over the end first before sucking.. lol
This really helped me out with my yard as of today 3-8-24
SO helpful! We had some torrential rains here in CA and this helped drain out all the water that collected own the pool cover (and hopefully will help prevent mosquitos too!)
That is so awesome. I am trying to do that today and you were the first video that I found. Thank you so much!
you, my man , just made my life so much easier!!!! thank you brother!
Thanks buddy. You just helped me to fill my kids paddling pool from the upstairs bathroom.
OMG!!! This worked!!! This was so helpful. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks so much for your siphon demo. We needed to drain some water out of our pool and your method is working.
Thank you for this video. I watched it then went straight & got it to work with my pool.
Thanks!! This works well. My trusty submersible pump passed away yesterday. I took a moment. I needed to drain a few trash cans I used to collect rain water. The pump, clearly, is much faster and I’ll need to replace it before I empty and clean the hot tub in a few months but this worked!!
THIS WORKED!! Unbelievable!
Glad it helped you!
Dude you are a life saver.
Saw this awhile back but didn't try it till today!! Yea!! It worked. I put two hoses in so maybe it won't take as long we shall see. Thanks so much for the quick video
Thank you man! My HVAC wouldn’t power on and climbed up and saw it had a lot of water and used your method to drain it into a bucket
Thank you! Just did it! First time didn’t work but worked on the second. It’s going to take a long time but it was something I could do on my own without my husbands help 👍
put the whole hose in the water then plug one end with your hand then pull the one end bellow the surface of the water and unplug it and let gravity do the rest. science is very cool
Thanks man. I was draining mine with buckets breaking my back. Got the siphon going now!
I have never had to do this myself before. This video was so informative and it worked!! I had to do it twice since my hose came out of the pool but did it again and the water is coming out. Thanks for doing these types of videos.
Awesome!! Was trying to figure out how to drain the little fish pond in my back yard so that I can clean it. This worked on the first try!!!
Thanks for keeping me from sucking the hose, the method worked perfect!
I just noticed the water level on my in ground pool was at/above the cement coping and I dont have a cover pump (first winter w a pool). And obviously in summer, you can use the pool pump side outlet to drain excess water, but it is winter and pump is off, lines are blown dry and plugged. I watched this video and thought, no way it's gonna be this easy. For anyone w an inground, as long as the draining end of the hose is at a lower grade than the intake, it will still work. Lucky, I have a slope at the back edge of my yard and a long hose! This took me no more than 2 minutes to accomplish. Thank you!!!
Thank you for posting such a helpful and informative video this is the second year I use this this method and it works in seconds
This actually worked for me! Thanks!
Just tried it and it worked first try! Now I can dump the pool cover water. Thank you!
Thank youuuu! Our pool was positioned badly so now I can drain & get it safely on a solid area.
Yay! My husband will be impressed!
You are the man! I was trying to relocate our basketball hoop and realized that the hoop has no drain plug! You literally would have to tip the entire hoop over (and it's very heavy) to try and drain the water from the top of the base...very stupid design. Anyway, I saw your video and it worked like a charm...45 minutes later I was able to move the hoop after siphoning out most of the water! Thank you for this video!
Thank you for taking the time to post… really helped me out today!
Thank you so much for your video. Your video saved me from wasting my time and money. I did just as you showed in your video and the rain water on my pool cover is almost gone now!
You just saved me $50 didn't have to buy a Shop-Vac it took one hour and my pool cover was clear of water. It didn't work the 1st time but the 2nd time got it flowing. Thanks man you're a genius.
Yay - kept my pool from flooding over after watching this yesterday.
Glad to hear it helped you out!
Thank you. Can't wait to try this with the hose. And also to clean the bottom
Great trick... thanks for sharing!! I tried this on my pool and it worked!!
Man....you are awesome...I'm sure both ways work but I started with #2 and it works like a CHAMP!!! Thanks for the Help!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌
Thanks for this. Made life so much easier!
This is the easiest method I've seen. Thank you
This was wonderful. My husband was struggling. I said I'm gonna ask Google. Well followed advice and it worked. Oh thank you
I have been watching multiple videos and been unsuccessful until yours. Ty dear sir.
AWESOME!! Thank you! So glad yours was the 1st to pull up in my search!!
Just gave this a shot! worked great! took less than 1 minute! thank you so much
Legend! Thanks for this, almost spent £50 on a electric drain pump 🙈 life saver worked great!
You have saved me from having to use a bucket for days 😭
I wish the video was shorter but by far the best video that explains how too do something simple thank you
Awesome Video! Thank you. Draining water out of a freezer in basement right now thanks to you!!
Thank you so much first time and you helped my son and I to empty our pool cover. I appreciate your video so much thanks again!!
My wife and her pool, dam ...thanks for saving my hide and back! Great info , works great bro!
This is neat and educative. I usually do it with my mouth. I'm goona try this quickly.
Amen!! Thank you sooooo much for this wonderful video. The best advice I have received in a long time. THANKS!!🤗
Thank you!!! Worked overnight all done.
Practical engineering brilliance. Thank you!
This worked Brilliantly! Thank you!!
Glad it helped you! Thanks for the comment!
Wow, drained our garden pond overnight using this method. Didn't actually think it would work!
Thank you for sharing 😊
I wish I had watched this the other day. My water pump motor wouldn't work after a huge rainstorm. I had rainwater filling up under my house in the crawlspace. I decided to try to siphon with a garden hose. I put one end in the water under the house and took the other end way down the hill. I started sucking on the hose but didn't think it was working then it surprised me and I got all that nasty water in my mouth and spray in my lungs. I thought I was going to get sick from all the bacteria in my mouth and lungs hoping that none of the sewer joints under the water had a leak. Luckily I didn't get sick. I'll do it your way from now on.
That’ time of the year again and once again Thank you for this video
Great info! I have a small deck about to collapse under load and need to drain the water fast and this seems the fastest easiest way to start draining.
Thank you for this instruction you did a great job explaining the process. I'm going to use it to drain my small pond.