If you are draining the pool especially for more than a day you should open at least one of these floor plugs to prevent problems from a high water table putting pressure under the pool.
Pool floor drain plug.
To remove a hydrostatic plug chisel the plaster out from inside of the plug so that you can get a pair of straight pliers onto the center ridge.
The main drain in your swimming pool is very easy to locate it sits right at the bottom of the pool.
An inground swimming pool s main drain is located in the deep end of the pool.
But locating them isn t actually the problem with swimming pool main drains.
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During winter months or periods of non use most pool drains do not need to be plugged but in some cases plugging a main drain is required or recommended.
Rather a swimming pool s main drain if it has one is a suction device.
Swimming pool main drains don t actually drain anything.
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A pump is located underneath or near a swimming pool equipped with a main drain and it s used to pull water down into the drain.
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Plug without an o ring.
If your pump plug uses an o ring however you may have trouble getting a tight seal when using a 1 4in.
In this video i show you how to drain your swimming pool fast but using the pool filter pump.
A main drain circulates the pool s water by pulling water off the bottom of the pool and sending it to the filter.