Hey, it's Rob with Inyopools today.
I'm going to show you how to identify the skimmer and replacement parts,
specifically the skimmer cover, the basket and the weir door inside.
We'll start with the cover.
The first thing you'll notice is a Hayward.
If you have a Hayward skimmer, I it'll have an H usually,
unless it's an after market cover, it might look a little different.
What you want to do is look at the underside
and you'll see all these numbers that are molded
into the bottom of the lid.
If you can see
but it says SP1070
or SP1070-S it's just different styles of the skimmer.
That tells you what the model number is of the skimmer.
Sometimes some other manufacturers will actually put
the number of the skimmer lit itself on the underside.
If you just take that number,
you go to our search box on inyopools.com put in that part number,
and you'll find the lid or you'll find a parts list for this skimmer.
If you can't find any part numbers and you can't determine
the manufacturer of the skimmer lid,
what you can do is take a measurement of the skimmer lid
and then take a picture of the skimmer lid,
email that to upload@inyopools.com, and we'll ID the skimmer lid for you,
find your replacement.
All right.
The next part we got here
is probably the most common skimmer part
that you might need to replace is the skimmer basket.
Typically on the rim of the basket,
there'll be a part number molded into the top,
and we ask customers this all the time and they can't seem to find it.
I think I know why, because it's very hard to see with the naked eye.
I've got a little trick on how to find that part number.
All right. I've got a piece of paper
and I borrowed a crayon from my daughter.
I'll just hold it over the part number here
that I felt with my finger, just lightly
go over it with the crayon.
Hopefully, you can see that.
Again, you can see it's, SP1070-E.
That's a little trick.
If you can feel some kind of molded part number to do that,
and then you'll be able to see the part number.
Once you have that part number,
you can go to our website punch in that part number,
and it should bring up a result.
Sometimes with these Hayward part numbers,
there's an X after the SP so it'll be SPX 1070-E.
Don't be thrown off by that X.
They added the replacement part numbers.
All right. You can't find a part number, again, measurements will do.
The three measurements we need would be the outside diameter at the top
the diameter at the bottom,
and then the height of the skimmer.
Again, if you send us a picture of the basket with those measurements,
upload at inyopools.com, we can match up your basket.
Another thing you can do, also, you can backwards work these part numbers.
For instance, if you couldn't find a part number on your cover,
if you could find the part number on the basket,
it'll tell you what skimmer you have.
You can do it that way as well.
All right. The last part would be this weir door,
and you may not have to measure the weir door, because like I said,
you could take the part number from the basket,
figure out which skimmer you have
and then it'll bring up a schematic
where it would show you the weir door.
If you can't find anything,
what you can do is measure the width of the door
and the height of the door.
Then we have a page with all our weir doors listed.
You can look through that and see if you can match one up
or send us pictures of the door with the measurements
and we can help you out.
If you have questions about skimmer parts or anything pool
or spa related, visit us over at inyopools.com.
Thanks for watching.