Old central heating pump

[masona]

I have a upright splasher swimming pool,can I use my old central heating pump (away from the wet area) and use it like a vacuum cleaner with hose to suck up debris from the bottom of the pool ?

 

[breezer]

you could try, but bearing in mind that it may block up as you want to remove the sludge, a filter will soon block up, and the pump will have to be lower than the pool to get it started.

Easier to siphon the sludge out, or buy a pond vaccuum cleaner (they do exist)

 

[masona]

I have got a manual pool vacuum cleaner but not easy to use as it require water going into the hose then collect the debris into a net bag then get air suction on the bottom,then the bloody thing won't move! I will try the c/h pump and see what happen as I got nothing to lose.

 

[breezer]

this is true, i don't think much to them things you have either, i once bought a swimming poolpump, with strainer, and hose, boy did it go........untill the motor burn out (some 14 mths later)

 

[masona]

I'm surprised the c/h pump is not powerful enough to suck up water ! Thinking about it, I suppose the c/h pump only really push the water round the c/h system which really doesn't have to be powerful.Oh well,learning every day!