Hey Pool Owners, This is Rob with Inyo Pools.
Today I'm going to show you how to hook up a Hayward suction style cleaner.
I'm using a Blucon cleaner, but same instructions could go
for the Navigator, the Pool Vac Ultra, or any other Hayward suction style cleaner,
which means it plugs into a skimmer or dedicated backline.
With that said, let's get started.
The next thing you're going to do is locate a spot where you're going
to connect the hose.
Most pools are going to have a dedicated backline as you can see here.
If you don't have a dedicated backline, you'll be connecting it to your skimmer.
For this video, I'm going to connect to the backline, but if you are going to use
the skimmer, what you would do
is you'd feed the hose through the skimmer, door opening
underneath the deck and then in, you move the basket,
and then go into the hole there at the bottom of the skimmer.
The cleaner usually comes with a skimmer cone
that you put on the end of the hose to connect to the skimmer.
Like I said, we're going to be using the dedicated backline.
The next step is going to be measuring out the hose that you'll need for the cleaner.
The cleaner comes with 40 feet of hose.
You may or may not need all of that, but what you can do is take a hose,
plug it into the back line.
Then what you want to do is keep connecting hoses until you reach
the furthest end of the pool,
and then add two more hoses.
Let's say you need six hoses to get to the corner,
you would add two beyond that, so a total of eight hoses.
A couple other things to keep in mind,
all the hoses are the same, except for this one.
It has a cuff on the end and it originally comes with a sticker.
This is the one that's going to plug into the cleaner.
You'd start with one of these.
This end would plug into the wall,
then you'd take the next hose and just plug it in there.
You'll keep doing that until you reach the furthest end of the pool.
Next thing you want to do is get the air out of the vacuum hose.
What you could do, if you want to do it quick,
is just turn the pump on, hold one end of the hose to a return jet
and blow the air out that way, or you can take apart the hoses,
bleed as much air out as you can.
I'll just do it piece by piece, show you.
Then when you get to the end, the cleaner will come
with this suction gauge.
What you'll do is put that on the last hose,
keep the hose under the water,
and then there's a C-clamp on the bottom of that gauge
and you just clamp that onto the hose.
That way it stays under water.
Now we're ready to go turn on the pump.
Before you turn the pump on, you're going to want to make sure
your valves are set correctly.
Right now, the cleaner line is shut off.
Since I'm using a suction cleaner, I don't need the main drain,
because the cleaner almost becomes your moving main drain.
Plus, if you got your main drain going
and your cleaner, when they meet it,
will get stuck together.
We're going to go ahead and shut the main drain off.
For now, I'm going to leave my skimmer line open so we can get water,
and we'll see if it gets enough suction.
If not, we may have to slowly turn off
the skimmer or partially close it so the cleaner gets enough suction.
We'll go ahead and turn on the pump and see where we are.
The pump's running.
Might be hard to tell, but if you can see,
it hasn't pulled in this black disc enough.
There's a min and a max line on this gauge.
If it's getting enough suction, it should pull it
in between the min and max, which is right about here.
What I'm going to have to do is start closing the skimmer line
until this gets enough suction to pull that black disc down
in between the min and max line.
I'm back over by the pump.
This is my skimmer line. Let's see where it says off here.
I'm going to start partially closing that skimmer line.
I'll start there and then I'll go check the gauge again.
There is the top of the gauge.
Now the black disc has moved down
to in between that min and max line. It's hard to tell.
Let's see if I can get a shot underwater.
We're definitely getting enough suction over there.
The initial problem was not enough suction.
You could possibly have too much suction.
In that case, you want to make sure your skimmer line is totally open.
What you could do is partially close the cleaner line to take
some of the suction away.
Also, the cleaner comes with a regulator valve that you could use
that can also help,
but usually the problem is not enough suctioning,
it's not too much suction. Let's go ahead and put the cleaner in.
We're going to go ahead and put the cleaner in.
Before you connect it to the hose, go ahead and submerge it in water
and let the air bleed out.
Then once you do that, you can remove the gauge and then connect that hose
with the cuff on the end directly to the cleaner.
As you can see, the orange sticker is still on there,
you're supposed to remove that. Disregard that.
The cleaner's moving around well now.
One thing I should mention, you really should have
an inline strainer basket. Hayward has them.
Basically, you would connect it between this first and second hose,
and that'll prevent anything from going into your lines
and getting the lines clogged.
Same thing even if you're plugging it into the skimmer,
you'll want to use one of those inline leaf canisters.
If you have any questions about Hayward suction cleaners
or anything pool or spa-related, visit us over at inyopools.com.
Thanks for watching.