Total Mess - Vacuum Suggestions

[FormerBromineUser]

You're losing suction because the filter is dirty.

[swimdaddy]

I divide my pool into quarters and clean out the leaf basket, pump basket and backwash IF NECESSARY. With a cartridge filter, it will be necessary, but with my sand filter, I try not to backwash too often. In the case of a sand filter, of flow is good and you don't have an algae problem, don't backwash.