Your rental should include rubber fire hoses in 50 feet (15. 2 m) lengths. Two should be enough for most homeowner, but check to make sure the pool is not more than 100 feet (30. 5 m) from your clean out/sewer access point.

Directly into the clean out. This is usually a 3 to 4 inch (7. 6 to 10. 2 cm) plastic pipe on your property, usually outside a bathroom or the kitchen, with a screw cap on it which leads directly into the sewer. The city will reuse this water. On older homes, one clean out usually exists and is elevated on a wall. On newer homes, two clean outs usually exist, and they are ground-level — sometimes obscured by landscaping. Using a clean connected to a wall is risky and could cause water damage to the house. If your clean out is connected directly to your house. Consult a pool specialist or general contractor before proceeding. Irrigate the lawn, plants, or other shrubbery. This is not recommended if you are draining the entire pool, nor is it a great idea on certain lawns or plants that don’t react well to excessive salt or chlorine. Certain grasses and Oleander species can take pool water, but citrus, hibiscus, or other salt-sensitive plants should not be irrigated in this fashion.

Although it may sound strange, check your municipality’s laws concerning the discharge rate. In some municipalities, the discharge rate is capped quite low — Phoenix, for example, sets theirs at 12 gallons (45. 4 L) per minute (or 720 gal/hr). This ensures safe disposal of the water into the sewer. Most good pumps will far exceed the municipality’s maximum discharge rate. They’ll function safely at 50 gallons/minute, and top out at about 70 gallons/minute. Your pool size will also determine how long it takes. If you’re pumping at 30 gallons/minute, or 1,800 gallons/hour, and you have a 25,000 gallon (94,635. 3 L) pool, it will take roughly 14 hours to drain the pool.

To keep the rings from reappearing, you can buy some “stain and scale inhibitor. " Check the manufacturer’s instructions for applications, as well as for repetitions. Some inhibitors need to be reapplied every month to be effective.

Water should not be expensive. If you need to, call your city and inquire about how much they charge.