How long should drainage hose be?

[west1745]

The company who built my pool supplied one of those flat hoses for draining the pool.

Since I have to do a partial drain/refill (due to high CYA), I just noticed that the flat hose is very short - it doesn't go all the way to the street.

I am still under warranty - should I ask them to replace it and make the new one longer?

THANKS!

[sevver]

I doubt that they would. you could get a barbed/PVC adapter and connect some PVC to it. Or buy another one and connect them with a Barbed Coupling.

Personally I took the fitting off of the pump and put a Quick Disconnect fitting on there and a Barbed to Female Pipe Thread adapter on the other end of the hose with a length of PVC that I can thread onto it to get me to the alley.

[MarkC]

I also don't think that is a warranty issue. At least you got a hose for your pool.

[sevver]

exactly, the purpose of the hose it to direct the water somewhere else. Without it the water just fans out and sprays all over the place.

[matt4x4]

They're dirt cheap, and usually come in 50 and 100 foot rolls - you can connect them end to end if you want with a male male fitting and a couple of clamps - this is what I do to get the rainwater from my roof to the pool when i need to fill it in the spring.

[sevver]

lol, that is funny, and I think you are serious too. Do you connect it to the downspout?

[west1745]

I doubt that they would. you could get a barbed/PVC adapter and connect some PVC to it. Or buy another one and connect them with a Barbed Coupling.

Personally I took the fitting off of the pump and put a Quick Disconnect fitting on there and a Barbed to Female Pipe Thread adapter on the other end of the hose with a length of PVC that I can thread onto it to get me to the alley.

Okay - thanks. Am I correct to assume that I can get another hose and the coupling at the pool store?

Right now, I tied the bigger flat hose to the garden hose with a long piece of saran wrap and then attached 2 hoses to get it to the street. But it is slower going because the garden hose is not as big.

[west1745]

I also don't think that is a warranty issue. At least you got a hose for your pool.

That is funny and not funny after going through this pool build. :-)

I have a good builder and am happy with the final design and job. BUT the process was like agony and took one year from when I signed the contract until I got the final permit. Not near close to the promised 12 weeks!!!

We had a hurricane, major construction time setbacks (they just sold too many pools), permit inspection failures, their backhoe driver hit my fence and my house and he knocked out the required safety vacuum valve for the main drain. The latter of which they tried to blame my landscaper and charge me for but someone I came unglued enough and researched it to where they had to fix it. I still have a big hole in the laundry room wall where their electrician tried to patch the wall after putting in the electric box.

And I am pretty sure they are the ones who put in too much stabilizer.

A trip to the pool store will probably be better for my blood pressure!!

[west1745]

They're dirt cheap, and usually come in 50 and 100 foot rolls - you can connect them end to end if you want with a male male fitting and a couple of clamps - this is what I do to get the rainwater from my roof to the pool when i need to fill it in the spring.

did you get all those supplies in the pool store? Like Pinch A Penny? Or should I try home depot?

THaNKS!

[matt4x4]

Well, I got those suypplies at Canadian Tire - a hardware store that sells absolutely everything except food. Up here in Canada, we (men) need two basic things to survive, Canadian Tire and Tim Horton's.
Reason I bought it all there is that the price is probably 1/10 of pool store prices - but I do know that Wally world has the hose real cheap too.
The barbed connector and clamps are probably attainable at any hardware store.

I am serious about using the rainwater from my garage roof (about 2000 sq ft) to fill my pool, for every inch of rain, I can get 4 inches in the pool.
The way I connect it is:
I have 2 rainbarrels that collect teh roof water, rainbarrel 1 overflows to rainbarrel 2, rainbarrel 2 normally overflows out of and identical hose as the pool drain hose to the lawn, I just disconnect that, fasten the pool hose and run it 100 feet across the lawn, fasten a barbed connector on the end to which I tie a bleach container filled with rocks and toss that into the pool, the top of the rainbarrels is about 4 feet higher than the top of the pool, so gravity does it's thing. I don't have any trees nearby, so teh water from my roof is very clean, also, having the two rainbarrels settles out any bird droppings etc that may wash down in the beggining stages of rain.