Skimmer Flapper

[salinda]

The floating weir that you can stick onto most skimmer baskets is made by PoolTool and can be found at their website: http://www.pooltool.com/ A pool guy installed one on my pool and removed the weir flap when they put in the variable speed pump. It is supposed to work better at lower speeds of the pump. From a physics/fluid dynamics standpoint, that makes sense, but I like my weir flap (which is a floating type with no springs) better. They never turned my pump off though. I think the basket popped up a little and water past that way, plus I have a suction cleaner to back me up. I mostly use lower speed in the winter when I am not running solar. The other problem with the circular weir is it cut down on the volume of leaves that could be trapped because the inside of the floating weir is a smaller space than the inside of the skimmer when using a flap-type of weir.

[matt4x4]

if you look in the skimmer opening right behind the front face plate on the skimmer body - lower sides, there should be a small hole in each side at the bottom corner, this is where the plate type clicks in - most pool stores sell replacements and all you have to do is get the right width. Most of these come with a piece of foam on the back of the weir which makes it stand up through foam's flotation.

[Phillbo]

Thanks all... I stopped by the pool store and they had just what I needed. I got the spring loaded one and it took less than a minute to install... not sure why I did not think of doing this earlier