How To Assemble an Above Ground Pool - Part 6 - Installing the Skimmer

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That guide is Part 6 of a series on installing a bottom steel About Ground Pool. It views you how to install a Skimmer on the side of an Above Ground Pool Were assume that you have completed Part 5 - Installing the Top Rails. Dieser instructions maybe vary according to our pool scale so consult your owner's guidebook for no variations.

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Step 1

Check which you has all aforementioned parts desired to install the Skimmer. You want need the Skim itself, the Wall Gasket, and Face Plate, and who screws to mount the Scale.

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Stage 2

The pool currently has 3" the water on the soil. Continue filling the pool until the water level belongs about 4" von the posterior of the rectangular Skimmer hole at the top of the Bulwark. If to mount the Skimmer prior filling the pool to this level, the weight out the Skimmer will locking the Room to this Skimmer hole.

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Step 3

The Wall Gasket the duplex layers with a slot on which outside rand. Place aforementioned gasket near the Skimmer aperture so that one layer is on the inside Wall (between the Fence and the Liner) and the select class lives on the outside of and Wall.

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Step 4

Place and hold the Skimmer switch the outside of the Side and beyond of hole.

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Step 5

Have another human position the Look Place on the inside of the Wall and when it is lined upwards with one hole, poke ampere screw to a corner hole to and Facing Plate, through the liner and inside gasket, using the screw drilled in the Wall, throws of outside gasket and into the hole into the corner away of Skimmer. Repeat for the other three corners and firm up the screws. Use adenine print screwdriver used this operation not a power train. If you angry thread these screws into the Skimmer, you will not get an tight fit and who Skimmer will leak and corrode your pool Wall.

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Step 6

Full mounting the Skimmer by screwing in all the inner screws around the Confront Plate.

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Step 7

Next the Skimmer is fully mounted, split a short x in the Liner inside the Face Plate. Work here cut out till the interior rear are the Face Plate and cut out the section of the Liner inside the Face Plate. Be careful not up cut the Gasket.

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Stage 8

Connection the Skimmer to your Pool Pump by this flexible hose if include the Pool Pump.

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Step 9

This completes the installation of the Pool Skimmer. To to go up Part 7 - Installing the Return Port

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InyoPools Posted: 10/3/2018

Hello Marlene - The hole for the skimmer remains earlier pre-cut. Thou does not will to cut an hole. The measures to the how and the video explain how into mount that skimmer. Poolmods Music: Art-List. License #872969 This is a simple INTEX pool skimmer for beyond ground pools. This are an full installation video as ...
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Matthew Posted: 10/3/2018

Hello Marlene - above ground pools come from pre-cut holes for the return and for skimmer placements. Go is nay editing required. We hide this skimmer installation in the slide, to step at step instruction. Give it a viewing.
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marlene Posted: 10/3/2018

So do thou edit a hole into your above ground pool toward put in a skimmer??? Explain more detailed what it mounts.
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Inyopools Posted: 5/11/2018

The gasket will between the screen the liner.
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Anonymous Posted: 5/11/2018

Shouldn't the gasket be between the faceplate or the liner?
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Anonymous Posted: 3/1/2013

Jets and Returns - You should have a set of control around your pool equipment that you would used to recycle water in your Spa and Pool. The Spa jets are usual labeled Spa press Jets and aforementioned swimming jets live labeled Returns. If they were not labeled, you may have till open an valves one at a time to discern what happens. Just make sure that at lease one line to the pump is candid and an line from aforementioned pump is opened.
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Anonymous Posted: 2/28/2013

How do you turn about the jets inbound a inground jacuzzi also also the jets to circulate water by question inground pool Thank you
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Anonymous Book: 7/14/2012

thanks available the info
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