I too watched all 5 videos one after the other. EXCELLENT...TRULY EXCELLENT JOB!!! Learned a lot... primarily about how sand filters work, distinction in the specific sand it requires & certainly the innovation of a clever mind. Amazing what men can think of & execute to solve problems! But also gotta comment on how really excellent your teaching & explanations we're. Thorough. Finally, found myself laughing out loud when you FINALLY fell in & surprised me, yourself & your video asst.!!!! Good work.. excellent videos. Thank you for the efforts & sharing!!!!!!?
Haha I don't even have a pool. Just wanted to build a sand filter for my aquarium and ended up watching this full series. Really entertaining man. Thank you 😅
Pretty cool! Quite often chlorine tabs are sold in big buckets with screw on lids. One of those would be great for this. Awesome to see you with your girls out working the pool. Gives them an appreciation for the pool and your time and money.
If you take a leaf blower and place it under the opposite end of pool cover as pump the cover will inflate and send water towards pump. When cover is light enough the pump can be removed and the remaining water will drain of edges. Once cover inflates water will dry on cover without falling into pool. Caution should be exercised to prevent over inflation or cover could blow out and dump into pool.
MustangResto fifteen years in the pool service industry in the midwestern region. This method works great especially with the water tubes to help seal the air. Naturally if deck slopes toward pool would pose a potential problem. As the cover inflates a garden hose and pool brush cleans cover in place eliminating the need to move it somewhere else. Give it a try next year you will see how efficient it is.
Great job in making the video and explaining all in great detail. We have a smaller 22x 34 ft pool in Toronto Canada. Winters are quite cold and snow/ice often creates a 12” pack over tarp, with bag surrounds. I normally just pumped top water out to ditch in spring and topped up pool with $50 worth of city water from Lake Ontario. Perhaps not possible in arid regions. Struggled with tarp removal as you did for 10 years. Then we had a custom mesh stretch screen installed with perimeter spring securing gizmos which attach with small flush brass fittings drilled to the stone deck. The screen is strong enough to hold a baby elephant, as shown in ads! 24 springs and webbing allow mesh to stretch and drop ice pack down to water level We lower water level in fall to 20” below deck to allow space for rain/ snow during winter. The rain and snow seeps thru the screen, but leaves simply blow away and never accumulate. In spring, ice melts, mesh pops back up like a trampoline. It folds up and stores easily. No cleaning required. When we remove screen in early spring the water is crystal clear. Remove winter plugs and foam in pipes, top up water and we start pool pump. A quick vacuuming cleans the bit of soot residue at bottom and we are set to heat water and start to swim. The mesh screen looks great all winter, and MUCH less work than the tarp. My custom fitted screen was about $2,000 but well worth it for appearance and no more sludge, rotten leaves, pumping or dead chipmunks! But, as an engineer, I commend you for your ingenuity, skills and fortitude! As I sit by my pool late into a warm August night, I send warm greetings from Canada. Cheers!
Got yo give it to you!!!! All that hard work paid off at part 5. When u and ur family removed that cover. Dam...that was beautiful..... put to rest all those negative comments.
The pool looks great after your treatment. Great series of videos. I don't have a pool either but I was watching this to get ideas as to how to remove some algae from my fish pond. Thanks!
Ok , I watched all the videos. I like that you are showing how to save water. Nice job on explaining the process and showing how to build the filter. And how they work, in #2. Thank you.
This series of videos is really cool, glad you made them. I really enjoyed them. However I'm wondering why you don't just throw the fully inflated inner-tubes into the pool under the cover during the off season? It's what everyone around here does, and there isn't any water on the cover to have to filter.
Exactly. A few large innertubes underneath the tarp ensures rain runs right off. You’ll save urself a week of prep work. Ps - check out FLUVAL aquarium pumps/filters. Very same concept (check how the lids are fastened like a ships hatch all around). I think called turnbuckles.
Watched the whole series and have to give kudos for the excellent details and explanations of the process. I hope you and your family get lots of enjoyment for your efforts.
Like most of the others, we don't own a pool or know anything about it BUT we do live in the high desert on a off grid homestead near an arroyo that floods every monsoon season. I was looking for ideas to harvest storm water for our non potable uses around the homestead and I think this is going to be a winner, chorine tablets and all. Thank you for posting such an in depth series on how you did this. We appreciate it
That's great. Glad you are able to extend the use of this idea to suit your needs. Good luck with it. I used rain barrels on my down spouts every summer to collect water for the garden. Since we got rain fairly regularly, all I needed to do was make sure the tops of the rain barrels kept out chipmunks and other small animals. I would also put mosquito tabs in them to kill any mosquitoes that wanted to lay eggs.
So I watched all five parts, well done! I live in central AZ, have a net above the pool for winter( trees in back)., but this confirms I need to change my sand!
Thanks for this series. I'm trying to figure out if I want to buy a house with a hot-tub and you have helped to show me that even much more daunting maintenance tasks are well within the reach of a dedicated DIY guy.
Thanks for commenting and watching. I believe that you make your own success. If you think you can do something, then you will, if you think you can't, then you won't. Don't be afraid to try. It's worse to sit on the side and not try than to try and fail.
All that water (weight) on top of the cover causes high water level (up to the coping) underneath of the cover, so you could get water behind the liner and it pulls the wall foam up. Then the pool needs to be drain @ 6” to the shallow and pull the liner to fix the foam, I have fix it many times. You don’t want to deal with a problem like this. Best of luck
watched all 5 videos. thank you for explaining everything, i learned a lot. we had a pool when i was in grade school, but we never closed it right.. what a nightmare that was. a squirrel getting in and tearing the liner was the last straw.. they gave it away! wish youtube was a thing back then!! I learned more in this video than I have in what little research I have done on pools... cant wait to get one!!
Those chipmonks probably got in from the step area looking for water to drink... Would be nice to provide some for next winter so those guys don't need to go in the pool and get trapped when the Pool's Closed...
no , a genius woulda used that great big filter and pump that is already hooked to his pool and had it done in a day or 2 , just dump green cover water in pool then turn on the filter and skip the 2 week adventure ! LOL
Why don't you use something like tractor tire tubes and pvc pipes to build like a floating deck to make a sloped cover. The crap and water wouldn't accumulate on the cover,and would allow you to avoid this work. I did a sand filter to save a 10 cubic meters capacity green pool too but with a garbage can fed by gravity ,i used few stones at the bottom,then some gravel on top,and sand over that. few holes in the bottom of the garbage can for clean water to exit. Nice serie of videos.
Thanks for watching. I'm not sure that the floating deck would be less work than what I'm doing now. And remember, it's really easy to store the sand filter bucket when I'm not using it, not to mention how easy it is to move it around. The materials for a floating deck would cost a lot more and take up a lot of storage room.
@@MustangResto What if you made a PVC thing that could be a little pool island during swimming season and then add a little height to it to go under the cover during winter? I have what used to be a ladder w/2" pipe, now it's going to be a puppy island. If there were T's instead of elbows at the corners, could cap the leftover side then in winter uncap and add pipes for elevation.
No crap. I’m like what in the actual H is the point of this. Next time try winterizing the pool the right way and don’t wait until it’s 90 degrees out to open your pool.
That is why after 2 years I said... screw the cover... Winter... add anti algaecide before draining pump and filters. Spring time, couple of hours using a skimmer to get the big stuff out, fire up the pump, shock the pool, wait until next day, then vacuum. I built a home made prefilter with a back flush setup out of an old Haywood D.E. perflex that someone threw out... ran it with no dirt. Just the internal socks. Watched pressure gauge to know when to back flush it. Couple of seconds filter would be cleaned.
Here's a life hack. Inflate a large pool floatie, such as a 4ft beach ball or some other large floatie and put it under your cover in the center of your pool. This will create an umbrella shape so water doesn't collect on top of the cover.
Way way to much work and time... time to ditch the old water bag covers and simply install a safety lock cover and be done with it..... it takes way less time to use one and 2 days of shock and 2 vacuums and it would be crystal clear.... u still have 2-3 vac times even after your week with your bucket invention
take a 5gal bucket drill some holes in the bottom and sides then put the pump in it. now instead of bailing the 5 gal bucket out, with the smaller bucket, you can pump it out with your pump
Thanks for the tutorial! I'm planning on building this for my stock tank kid pool. I just ordered an inline pump off Amazon... My question is this; Would it work just as well if I have the pump on the OUTPUT end of the filter, pulling the water through the filter instead of the pump BEFORE the filter pushing? I would like to be filtering the water before it hits the pump rather then having the water pass through the pump before getting filtered. Hope this makes sense and hoping you see this and can respond. Cheers. Jordan
this is not a highly pressurized system. it's basically gravity feed with some pressure build up by the pump. I think to suck water through the filter would require way more pressure than the bucket lid will resist.
@@junogwat1979 Yeah ... I think he must allready have a filter system for a pool of this size so why not use that for the cleaning... even if I don't have such a filter system yet, they don't cost a ton, for this purpose a cheap system would just work fine, maybe 150-200 bucks and it saves you DAYS... But I understand if someone just want's to build things on his own even if they don't work perfect it's still rewarding if you have done something with your own hands ;-) So from that point of view > respect and appreciation for the work!
TheNightstalker80 your probably right. I spoke too soon. I had read that he was using a well or something. Not having your every day water house like I do changes the prospective. And yea your right, when building something that actually works gives you the satisfaction at the end. Great job!! I wouldn’t do mine that way. But if my filtration system broke!! I would definitely try it.
Hi, maybe i missed this in the video, but why not just pump off the water from the cover into the garden somewhere. are your water charges high? im guessing the pool has its own pump and filters that you started running a few weeks before? seemed like a lot of work just to keep that green water from the cover.
Great video! You said that :" I don't use the same pump to filter the pool. I have a separate pump and sand filter that is hard piped to the pool to do the filtering." I want to know more about filtering pool water..How you do that? Maybe another video? CHEERS FROM SEBIA!
We use a standard sand filter that holds about 300 pounds of sand and a Hayward Super pump. Just search for pool sand filter and you'll find lots of videos.
Can you tell me where can I get this pool cover, how much it cost what’s your pool size! I live in Texas so it’s so dam hot and i can’t clean the pool every day so I wanna to cover it
You can buy a pool cover at any pool supply store. I get mine at Doheny.com. Our pool is about 18' wide and 38' long, so I get a cover for a 20' by 40' pool. It costs about $100.
Pump that water off over the lawn and garden beds (it's rain water anyway) then pull back the cover, remove the dead chipmunks. Do PH checks, backwash and circulate. You could've have saved over a week of unnecessary hassle.
If you pump the water off, then it needs to be replaced since it's in the pool. We have a well, so we can't just run a hose to refill it. That's why I filter the water and reuse it.
****1.)Can this be installed into an existing swimming pool sand filter pump system? ....2.) if yes would you install it before or at the end of the system? 3.) ...or would it create way to much pressure?
I don't think this can handle the flow from a full size sand filter pump system. I use a small submersible pump. My main pool pump pushes way too much water for this filter.
Why not just pump the water off the cover? And add any needed fresh water to the pool. That was an insane amount of work, fabrication, time and effort. But, if you have your reasons...
Basically, it's a lot of water to have to dump somewhere. And if I pump it all off of the cover, then when i open the pool, i can't run the pump until I get a water delivery to refill it. With my filter, I can swim in the pool as soon as we take the cover off. Thanks for commenting.
no issue with well water. just Figured it would be difficult to get large amounts of water that way. my pool can loose an Inch of water a Day. that just seems like a lot to pull from a well.
If you put a few chlorine tablets on top off the cover, when you come back to it. The water will already be clean and clear.. However. Just install a secondary cover or pump the water off and not into the pool.. Hard work just to use a pool.
what a great videos! i would liket to build such system. do you think it will be good enough for maintenance of a small 800 gallons above ground pool? and is a 530 gallons per hour pump will do the job?
well great efforts and reall y worth watching . but what you doto clean up the real pool water??? do you use the same filter system??? does cholrine harms the swimmer skin or accidental water intakes chlorine water from the pool ?? was the pool water existing when you covered the pool before going on vacations. >>>
We have a standard inground pool sand filter set up for the pool water. The chlorine does not harm anyone. It does not remain in the water long enough at high levels to hurt you. Obviously, you don't want to drink pool water, but an accidental mouthful won't hurt. Yes, the pool water stays in the pool when we cover it, so most of the water is existing from last season. it is only the top 18 inches or so that is replaced by rain/snow every year.
It took you over a week to drain that cover . YOu must love what you do. You do have to clean the sump pump in between because with the amount of sludge built up in there you would need to clean it often. Do you use same pump to filter your pool?? Your pool is beautiful but that was WORK! I would have put a water hose in to fill the pool and get rid of the sludge in there. It was entertaining. Can i come over to swim now?
the pump does all the work. I just go and check on it once or twice a day. I think it's fun to do the things I do at my house. I don't use the same pump to filter the pool. I have a separate pump and sand filter that is hard piped to the pool to do the filtering. I don't really clean the pump except to use it for other things, during which time it is pumping clean rain water from my rain barrels. That cleans it really well. Swim at your own risk.
MustangResto , Wait Wait Wait, Hold up Hold up. . . So you are telling the UA-cam fans, that we don't need to use the pool pump, to clean up the swimming pool and the sand filter will take good care of the swimming pool and save us huge money
You could have had the pool up and running in a day. That pump is a waste of electricity . A week and a half to 2 weeks to filter that water lol. Just pump off and pull cover and add a little water from hose. But to each their own I guess
Mustang Reston I really am intrigued by your home made filtration system , and thanks for that. I would just like to get some information from you on how to get my INTEX POOL water a bit warmer because the solar system just warms up only about 8" of the surface depth of water. Can you recommend anyway for me to get the rest of the water warmed up without having to purchase those expensive electrical heaters. I'm awaiting your reply. Thanking you in advance.
Ann Marie, i'm not sure what to recommend. My pool takes a while to warm up naturally from the sun. i'd suggest circulating the water while you are trying to heat it which might help distribute the warm water more evenly throughout the pool.
@@MustangResto hi thanks for the information that you shared with me but at present these days we have been having rain, so when the sun comes back at full strength I most certainly will try it.
Part 6 should be you swimming in the pool after all those days of cleaning it. I bet your the one who least swims in the pool. That was way to much work, I have an idea for you if you don't mind , just like the two pieces of timber you used over your steps, make three or more of them but with extra timber just like a ladder , now put a gym ball in each one and then cover the pool with plastic sheet, this way water will run off to the edge and into the garden. Or you could buy used extension ladders and use that if you think the timber is too heavy.👍
I've never owned a pool, never done pool maintenance, and don't even know anyone who has a pool, but I enjoyed watching the 5 part series.
Carlin,
thanks for watching and commenting. I enjoy making the videos and it's nice to see that people appreciate them.
I watched all these videos and I don't even have a pool.
Thanks for watching.
I did the same ,but he has a real good system.
I dont have a pool either but after the first video he had me interested in his system lol :)
lmao same here.
SAME that knowledge though it's always good to know a thing or two
I too watched all 5 videos one after the other. EXCELLENT...TRULY EXCELLENT JOB!!! Learned a lot... primarily about how sand filters work, distinction in the specific sand it requires & certainly the innovation of a clever mind. Amazing what men can think of & execute to solve problems! But also gotta comment on how really excellent your teaching & explanations we're. Thorough. Finally, found myself laughing out loud when you FINALLY fell in & surprised me, yourself & your video asst.!!!! Good work.. excellent videos. Thank you for the efforts & sharing!!!!!!?
Very nice work! And thank you for help me to build my own sand filter. Cheers from Brazil!
Cheers! I'm glad I could help you.
Haha I don't even have a pool. Just wanted to build a sand filter for my aquarium and ended up watching this full series. Really entertaining man. Thank you 😅
This was excellent. I especially loved the self fulfilling prophecy of falling in the pool... I'll be building this system for my stock tank!
Glad it was helpful! I fell in the pool before, so I knew it was a hazard.
Pretty cool! Quite often chlorine tabs are sold in big buckets with screw on lids. One of those would be great for this. Awesome to see you with your girls out working the pool. Gives them an appreciation for the pool and your time and money.
If you take a leaf blower and place it under the opposite end of pool cover as pump the cover will inflate and send water towards pump. When cover is light enough the pump can be removed and the remaining water will drain of edges. Once cover inflates water will dry on cover without falling into pool. Caution should be exercised to prevent over inflation or cover could blow out and dump into pool.
I'd like to see that in action.
MustangResto fifteen years in the pool service industry in the midwestern region. This method works great especially with the water tubes to help seal the air. Naturally if deck slopes toward pool would pose a potential problem. As the cover inflates a garden hose and pool brush cleans cover in place eliminating the need to move it somewhere else. Give it a try next year you will see how efficient it is.
Great job in making the video and explaining all in great detail. We have a smaller 22x 34 ft pool in Toronto Canada. Winters are quite cold and snow/ice often creates a 12” pack over tarp, with bag surrounds. I normally just pumped top water out to ditch in spring and topped up pool with $50 worth of city water from Lake Ontario. Perhaps not possible in arid regions. Struggled with tarp removal as you did for 10 years. Then we had a custom mesh stretch screen installed with perimeter spring securing gizmos which attach with small flush brass fittings drilled to the stone deck. The screen is strong enough to hold a baby elephant, as shown in ads! 24 springs and webbing allow mesh to stretch and drop ice pack down to water level We lower water level in fall to 20” below deck to allow space for rain/ snow during winter. The rain and snow seeps thru the screen, but leaves simply blow away and never accumulate. In spring, ice melts, mesh pops back up like a trampoline. It folds up and stores easily. No cleaning required. When we remove screen in early spring the water is crystal clear. Remove winter plugs and foam in pipes, top up water and we start pool pump. A quick vacuuming cleans the bit of soot residue at bottom and we are set to heat water and start to swim. The mesh screen looks great all winter, and MUCH less work than the tarp. My custom fitted screen was about $2,000 but well worth it for appearance and no more sludge, rotten leaves, pumping or dead chipmunks! But, as an engineer, I commend you for your ingenuity, skills and fortitude! As I sit by my pool late into a warm August night, I send warm greetings from Canada. Cheers!
Excellent videos !!! Thanks for sharing all this process !!! :)
Got yo give it to you!!!! All that hard work paid off at part 5. When u and ur family removed that cover. Dam...that was beautiful..... put to rest all those negative comments.
Great job, I liked the sand filter. Thank you so much for this videos.
The pool looks great after your treatment. Great series of videos. I don't have a pool either but I was watching this to get ideas as to how to remove some algae from my fish pond. Thanks!
Don't use chlorine for a fish pond. I don't think the filter alone will clear up the algae.
Ok , I watched all the videos. I like that you are showing how to save water. Nice job on explaining the process and showing how to build the filter. And how they work, in #2. Thank you.
Thanks for commenting. This system works well for me.
What a journey. Just watched all 5 in a row.
Thumbs up all five videos! Love your pool and patio. Great job!!
Awesome job..me and my wife really enjoyed your videos.thank you for sharing it with us.,.
Well, this series was fun to watch. I would of kept on watching if there was a pool opening tutorial 😂 great vids 👍👍
Did you mean pool closing? Maybe I'll do one this year if people are interested.
This series of videos is really cool, glad you made them. I really enjoyed them. However I'm wondering why you don't just throw the fully inflated inner-tubes into the pool under the cover during the off season? It's what everyone around here does, and there isn't any water on the cover to have to filter.
Glad you like them! That's an interesting idea. I've never thought of doing that.
Great suggestion. Not that I really know bc I don't even own a pool. However, I'm interested in a video of the process.
@@MustangResto when you try it. Record it so that we can see it.
Exactly. A few large innertubes underneath the tarp ensures rain runs right off. You’ll save urself a week of prep work. Ps - check out FLUVAL aquarium pumps/filters. Very same concept (check how the lids are fastened like a ships hatch all around). I think called turnbuckles.
Great video - thanks for the instructions, you have inspired me a lot!!! Good job!
Watched the whole series and have to give kudos for the excellent details and explanations of the process. I hope you and your family get lots of enjoyment for your efforts.
Thanks for watching and commenting. We enjoy our pool.
Like most of the others, we don't own a pool or know anything about it BUT we do live in the high desert on a off grid homestead near an arroyo that floods every monsoon season. I was looking for ideas to harvest storm water for our non potable uses around the homestead and I think this is going to be a winner, chorine tablets and all.
Thank you for posting such an in depth series on how you did this. We appreciate it
That's great. Glad you are able to extend the use of this idea to suit your needs. Good luck with it.
I used rain barrels on my down spouts every summer to collect water for the garden. Since we got rain fairly regularly, all I needed to do was make sure the tops of the rain barrels kept out chipmunks and other small animals. I would also put mosquito tabs in them to kill any mosquitoes that wanted to lay eggs.
So I watched all five parts, well done! I live in central AZ, have a net above the pool for winter( trees in back)., but this confirms I need to change my sand!
Thanks for this series. I'm trying to figure out if I want to buy a house with a hot-tub and you have helped to show me that even much more daunting maintenance tasks are well within the reach of a dedicated DIY guy.
Thanks for commenting and watching. I believe that you make your own success. If you think you can do something, then you will, if you think you can't, then you won't. Don't be afraid to try. It's worse to sit on the side and not try than to try and fail.
This is by far the best Pool maintenance video I've ever watched. I'm sooo building one for my kids. Cheers man !😊🙏🏽
Good luck and have fun!
Great work done and shared ...liked all 5 videos!
thanks, we had fun doing it.
All that water (weight) on top of the cover causes high water level (up to the coping) underneath of the cover, so you could get water behind the liner and it pulls the wall foam up. Then the pool needs to be drain @ 6” to the shallow and pull the liner to fix the foam, I have fix it many times. You don’t want to deal with a problem like this. Best of luck
thanks for the tip.
Great videos! Thanks for sharing!
watched all 5 videos. thank you for explaining everything, i learned a lot. we had a pool when i was in grade school, but we never closed it right.. what a nightmare that was. a squirrel getting in and tearing the liner was the last straw.. they gave it away! wish youtube was a thing back then!! I learned more in this video than I have in what little research I have done on pools... cant wait to get one!!
Thanks for watching and commenting. Enjoy your pool when you get it.
Beautiful pool!
Thanks, we loved it.
Creative. You have a genius mind at work. Impractical and inefficient, but creative.
Thanks, and keep watching.
Thx for sharing your knowledge
I have a pool not as big as your but the principle are the same.
Thx good Sir
Happy to help
The amount of work you did is crazy.
I like your homemade sand filter.
But the amount of work you did is just crazy and time consuming.
Those chipmonks probably got in from the step area looking for water to drink... Would be nice to provide some for next winter so those guys don't need to go in the pool and get trapped when the Pool's Closed...
fantastic job! love the videos you made!
Thanks for watching and commenting. I really appreciate learning that you liked the videos.
GENIUS. Thanks for sharing!
no , a genius woulda used that great big filter and pump that is already hooked to his pool and had it done in a day or 2 , just dump green cover water in pool then turn on the filter and skip the 2 week adventure ! LOL
Why don't you use something like tractor tire tubes and pvc pipes to build like a floating deck to make a sloped cover.
The crap and water wouldn't accumulate on the cover,and would allow you to avoid this work.
I did a sand filter to save a 10 cubic meters capacity green pool too but with a garbage can fed by gravity ,i used few stones at the bottom,then some gravel on top,and sand over that.
few holes in the bottom of the garbage can for clean water to exit.
Nice serie of videos.
Thanks for watching. I'm not sure that the floating deck would be less work than what I'm doing now. And remember, it's really easy to store the sand filter bucket when I'm not using it, not to mention how easy it is to move it around. The materials for a floating deck would cost a lot more and take up a lot of storage room.
@@MustangResto What if you made a PVC thing that could be a little pool island during swimming season and then add a little height to it to go under the cover during winter?
I have what used to be a ladder w/2" pipe, now it's going to be a puppy island. If there were T's instead of elbows at the corners, could cap the leftover side then in winter uncap and add pipes for elevation.
Dude i watched every video to see the reveal, amazing! You did a great job
Hey!!! Thanks for the sand bucket tip!! And thanks a lot for the follow up!! Nice job!!
I do have a pool, Thanks for the series and the slow-mo was funny.
That was the best part.
Thank for sharing. I'll probably use this homemade sand filter to filter a small pool for the kids.
It should work fine for that.
@@MustangResto does the second bucket have to be submerged if i were to build this for my above ground pool for the kids??
Excellent job 👍
Good job i make my own water fillter for my school teacher fish tank
that's was awesome
i always end up pumping the water out instead of recycling it, great way to save money on refilling water :D thank you for the TIP
Glad I could help!
Nice! You managed to accomplish a full mornings work in only two short weeks!
🤭🤫 this is way more entertaining.
No crap. I’m like what in the actual H is the point of this. Next time try winterizing the pool the right way and don’t wait until it’s 90 degrees out to open your pool.
This series was absolutely genius👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks for watching and the nice comment.
This is so fun to watch. Thank you friends.💜👍😁✋ Nice job! Can I come to your first pool party. LOL. Guess I am late.
Thank you 🤗
That is why after 2 years I said... screw the cover... Winter... add anti algaecide before draining pump and filters. Spring time, couple of hours using a skimmer to get the big stuff out, fire up the pump, shock the pool, wait until next day, then vacuum. I built a home made prefilter with a back flush setup out of an old Haywood D.E. perflex that someone threw out... ran it with no dirt. Just the internal socks. Watched pressure gauge to know when to back flush it. Couple of seconds filter would be cleaned.
Nice one! Great pool, thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely no need for me to watch any of these videos ... but you best believe I watched all 5 ... how I got here who knows ....🤙🏼
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching.
I'm going to set up a sand filter on my turtle pond. Great stuff guys.
Thanks for watching and good luck with your project.
I have my own pool, and I liked this. I do have a safety cover though. I still liked it! Great job!
Here's a life hack. Inflate a large pool floatie, such as a 4ft beach ball or some other large floatie and put it under your cover in the center of your pool. This will create an umbrella shape so water doesn't collect on top of the cover.
I've seen that on smaller above ground pools. Our pool is 20' by 40', so you would need a lot of balls.
I wonder where you got the pool cover?
Way way to much work and time... time to ditch the old water bag covers and simply install a safety lock cover and be done with it..... it takes way less time to use one and 2 days of shock and 2 vacuums and it would be crystal clear.... u still have 2-3 vac times even after your week with your bucket invention
47 years experience [not just 46 like D Larson], looks great MustangResto.
I watched all the videos too and I don’t have a pool. I love DIY stuff.
That's what it's all about.
I am so impressed with the video series keep it up!
thanks, I am glad you enjoyed watching them.
take a 5gal bucket drill some holes in the bottom and sides then put the pump in it. now instead of bailing the 5 gal bucket out, with the smaller bucket, you can pump it out with your pump
Thanks for the tutorial! I'm planning on building this for my stock tank kid pool. I just ordered an inline pump off Amazon... My question is this; Would it work just as well if I have the pump on the OUTPUT end of the filter, pulling the water through the filter instead of the pump BEFORE the filter pushing? I would like to be filtering the water before it hits the pump rather then having the water pass through the pump before getting filtered. Hope this makes sense and hoping you see this and can respond. Cheers.
Jordan
this is not a highly pressurized system. it's basically gravity feed with some pressure build up by the pump. I think to suck water through the filter would require way more pressure than the bucket lid will resist.
the 9 dislikes are real pool guys. lol way to much time wasted. take me an hour to clean that off.
Agreed.
Yea. Spend the money and get a real filter system. And save 3 weeks of bs and have it done in 1 to 2 days.
@@junogwat1979 Yeah ... I think he must allready have a filter system for a pool of this size so why not use that for the cleaning... even if I don't have such a filter system yet, they don't cost a ton, for this purpose a cheap system would just work fine, maybe 150-200 bucks and it saves you DAYS... But I understand if someone just want's to build things on his own even if they don't work perfect it's still rewarding if you have done something with your own hands ;-) So from that point of view > respect and appreciation for the work!
TheNightstalker80 your probably right. I spoke too soon. I had read that he was using a well or something. Not having your every day water house like I do changes the prospective. And yea your right, when building something that actually works gives you the satisfaction at the end. Great job!! I wouldn’t do mine that way. But if my filtration system broke!! I would definitely try it.
Hi, maybe i missed this in the video, but why not just pump off the water from the cover into the garden somewhere. are your water charges high? im guessing the pool has its own pump and filters that you started running a few weeks before? seemed like a lot of work just to keep that green water from the cover.
Great video! You said that :" I don't use the same pump to filter the pool. I have a separate pump and sand filter that is hard piped to the pool to do the filtering." I want to know more about filtering pool water..How you do that? Maybe another video? CHEERS FROM SEBIA!
We use a standard sand filter that holds about 300 pounds of sand and a Hayward Super pump. Just search for pool sand filter and you'll find lots of videos.
excellent video, great job.Thanks
We use a black cover and afer i get mot of the water off let it sit for a day the leaves dry up and the remaining water. Simple.
Hi nice video
Love from india
Hopefully you replaced that with a mesh cover lol😂. Cool video but wow that was a lot of work and time. Mesh is very easy.
Can you tell me where can I get this pool cover, how much it cost what’s your pool size! I live in Texas so it’s so dam hot and i can’t clean the pool every day so I wanna to cover it
You can buy a pool cover at any pool supply store. I get mine at Doheny.com. Our pool is about 18' wide and 38' long, so I get a cover for a 20' by 40' pool. It costs about $100.
Your a smart guy in how you get the bad water off cover. Work smarter not harder :)
Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching.
So Worthwhile
A better idea would be the use of A frames over the pool. Then put the cover on them.
I was watching aquarium stuff, now I watched all these episodes
Pump that water off over the lawn and garden beds (it's rain water anyway) then pull back the cover, remove the dead chipmunks. Do PH checks, backwash and circulate. You could've have saved over a week of unnecessary hassle.
If you pump the water off, then it needs to be replaced since it's in the pool. We have a well, so we can't just run a hose to refill it. That's why I filter the water and reuse it.
Maybe i have overheard it, but why didn't you sucked off the water directly without cleaning first ?
I'm glad I live in South Florida
Very nice
Aftet watching this seems worth the money to buy those super tight pool covers that lay flat across your pool.
Those covers allow water and fine particles in the pool. The water is OK, but in the spring you will have to clean out the particles.
nice pool my daughter would love this pool in our garden well that would never happen that pool looks bigger than our hole garden
****1.)Can this be installed into an existing swimming pool sand filter pump system? ....2.) if yes would you install it before or at the end of the system? 3.) ...or would it create way to much pressure?
I don't think this can handle the flow from a full size sand filter pump system. I use a small submersible pump. My main pool pump pushes way too much water for this filter.
super idea!
Glad you think so!
Do you run the regular pool pump and filter when everything is cleaned up? or is this done periodically to maintain through the warm seasons?
This is only used before we open the pool. Once the pool is opened, we use the regular pump and filter, not this one.
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Why not just pump the water off the cover? And add any needed fresh water to the pool. That was an insane amount of work, fabrication, time and effort. But, if you have your reasons...
Basically, it's a lot of water to have to dump somewhere. And if I pump it all off of the cover, then when i open the pool, i can't run the pump until I get a water delivery to refill it. With my filter, I can swim in the pool as soon as we take the cover off. Thanks for commenting.
_until I get a water delivery to refill it._ wait. are you on well water?
Xyphren doesn't mtter... we have filled my dad's inground pool several times off well water
no issue with well water. just Figured it would be difficult to get large amounts of water that way. my pool can loose an Inch of water a Day. that just seems like a lot to pull from a well.
Xyphren nah man my dad does it all the time... if you need water just use it
If you put a few chlorine tablets on top off the cover, when you come back to it. The water will already be clean and clear.. However.
Just install a secondary cover or pump the water off and not into the pool..
Hard work just to use a pool.
most indept pool filter tutoriel ever
I watched all the videos then bought a pool!
what a great videos! i would liket to build such system. do you think it will be good enough for maintenance of a small 800 gallons above ground pool? and is a 530 gallons per hour pump will do the job?
It should be fine for what you are proposing. The pump should be adequate.
well great efforts and reall y worth watching . but what you doto clean up the real pool water???
do you use the same filter system???
does cholrine harms the swimmer skin or accidental water intakes chlorine water from the pool ??
was the pool water existing when you covered the pool before going on vacations. >>>
We have a standard inground pool sand filter set up for the pool water. The chlorine does not harm anyone. It does not remain in the water long enough at high levels to hurt you. Obviously, you don't want to drink pool water, but an accidental mouthful won't hurt. Yes, the pool water stays in the pool when we cover it, so most of the water is existing from last season. it is only the top 18 inches or so that is replaced by rain/snow every year.
It took you over a week to drain that cover . YOu must love what you do. You do have to clean the sump pump in between because with the amount of sludge built up in there you would need to clean it often. Do you use same pump to filter your pool?? Your pool is beautiful but that was WORK! I would have put a water hose in to fill the pool and get rid of the sludge in there. It was entertaining. Can i come over to swim now?
the pump does all the work. I just go and check on it once or twice a day. I think it's fun to do the things I do at my house. I don't use the same pump to filter the pool. I have a separate pump and sand filter that is hard piped to the pool to do the filtering. I don't really clean the pump except to use it for other things, during which time it is pumping clean rain water from my rain barrels. That cleans it really well. Swim at your own risk.
Not being critical but this was done solely to get views.
MustangResto , Wait Wait Wait, Hold up Hold up. . . So you are telling the UA-cam fans, that we don't need to use the pool pump, to clean up the swimming pool and the sand filter will take good care of the swimming pool and save us huge money
You could have had the pool up and running in a day. That pump is a waste of electricity . A week and a half to 2 weeks to filter that water lol. Just pump off and pull cover and add a little water from hose. But to each their own I guess
We have a well, so can't do the water from a hose deal.
Mustang Reston I really am intrigued by your home made filtration system , and thanks for that.
I would just like to get some information from you on how to get my INTEX POOL water a bit warmer because the solar system just warms up only about 8" of the surface depth of water. Can you recommend anyway for me to get the rest of the water warmed up without having to purchase those expensive electrical heaters.
I'm awaiting your reply. Thanking you in advance.
Ann Marie, i'm not sure what to recommend. My pool takes a while to warm up naturally from the sun. i'd suggest circulating the water while you are trying to heat it which might help distribute the warm water more evenly throughout the pool.
@@MustangResto hi thanks for the information that you shared with me but at present these days we have been having rain, so when the sun comes back at full strength I most certainly will try it.
imagine uncovering it, en all green :D
holy crap, wow dude its worked wow it looks great
Why did I watch these....?.........all 5.......
I've run out of youtube videos to watch.
Part 6 should be you swimming in the pool after all those days of cleaning it. I bet your the one who least swims in the pool. That was way to much work, I have an idea for you if you don't mind , just like the two pieces of timber you used over your steps, make three or more of them but with extra timber just like a ladder , now put a gym ball in each one and then cover the pool with plastic sheet, this way water will run off to the edge and into the garden. Or you could buy used extension ladders and use that if you think the timber is too heavy.👍
We actually need the water on the cover in the spring to refill the pool after we lower the water in the fall to close it.
@@MustangResto 👍
How about a bigger pump? Same system.
Wow, it's blue!
Great series! Where did you get your pool cover?
I bought it online at one of the big pool websites. I don't remember which one.
You rock!!