Here you need to follow several steps to achieve the desired outcome.
Thru the wall pool skimmer instructions.
Find the pre cut area for the return fitting and knock out the cut out.
The thru wall skimmer is also where your vacuum hose hooks up when it s time to clean your pool.
If pool wall is factory pre cutfor a skimmer and return fitting follow these instructions otherwise go to step 2 below.
How to install a thru wall skimmer to intex pool easy to follow instructions 1.
Begin by assembling the wide mouth extension to the skimmer housing using 8 ss philips head screws an d the 8946 gasket.
The last one is the actual installation of the skimmer to your intex swimming pool.
Follow them to the letter to ensure that you have an adequately attached cleaner.
Reach over the top rail of the pool and carefully press the face plate and liner against the gasket and skimmer cutout in the wall.
You would first remove the skimmer basket and place the vacuum plate included with the skimmer on top of the opening.
Installing thru wall skimmer on intex pool step one.
Every brand is different and often provides its assembling instructions.
Put the face plate at the skimmer cutout.
Place the gasket between the extension and the skimmer body.
From outside the pool align the skimmer body with these screws.
Now that the pool is in position you can start.
The first thing you need to do is prep up your pool by filling it first with water of up to 2 feet.
The skimmer in the pool.
Model 8939 wide mouth thru wall skimmer installation instructions 1.
With a file or piece of sandpaper remove any metal burrs that may cut the liner or yourself during the assembly.
The throat of the skimmer.
Firmly tighten the screws.
Position the faceplate 20 over the gaskets and insert two large self threading screws 19 into top corner holes and carefully push the screws through the holes which have been pierced in the liner.
Model 8940 thru wall skimmer installation instructions.
The eight holes are the ones that are recessed in the extension piece.
To install the wide mouth extension insert four 4 pan head screws 1 long through the lip of the extension and four 4 through.
Locate the wall opening and punch out the twelve 1 4 holes and rectangular cut out.
Fill up the pool.
Install the thru wall skimmer.
Insert two self threading flat head screws provided into the top corner holes of the face plate.
Lightly tighten the two screws fig 3.
Your vacuum hose will connect to this plate and your pump will provide the suction into the filter.