Golf Ball in Pipe Under Skimmer

by Gabe
(Duarte, ca)

I believe a golf ball is wedged in my pull vacuum piping just below the skimmer attachment. I can barely feel it with my middle finger going in the pvc piping, and it feels like the ripple of a golf ball that I must have sucked up when vacuuming?

Kids next door are always throwing things in my pool.

Any ideas? I can only feel about 10% of the ball, the rest of it seems to want to go down the pipe, but I don't want to force it and have it get wedged somewhere else down the line.



Hi Gabe. It sounds like you are going to have to cut into the pipe and remove it? PVC pipe should be easy to cut and splice back together with a coupler and some PVC glue.



If the ball is lodged in the pipe it is probably reducing your filter flow considerably. If so, the repairs should be done as soon as possible. If the flow has not been reduced it may not be a problem to leave it alone. It might just make it's way down to the pump basket where it would be easy to remove.