The float valve in the bottom is designed to shut off the skimmer and keep it from sucking air into the pump if the water level in the. pool gets too low. On some systems where the skimmer and drain are both plumbed into the skimmer, the float valve serves to regulate the flow of water from. the skimmer and the drain. See Setup 1 and Setup.
Skimmers can range from a non-technical net you use by hand to skim the pool to a complicated machine. The most common type of pool skimmer is the automatic model installed along with your pool filtration infrastructure. They work by sucking the pool water in, sieving it, and sending the clean
1 โ Floating Pond Skimmers. These are just like they sound. They float on top of your water and skim off debris. They come in many shapes and sizes, but they all work the same way. They pull debris into a basket or strainer that you must clean out periodically.
Water is drawn into the skimmer box by a pond pump or can be gravity fed to your filter system through the weir door, which is partially submerged in the pond below the surface of the water. Once the pond water has cycled, the debris is collected in a wastebasket and returned to the pond. This kind of surface skimmer has a rounded shape on the
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