On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:55:57 -0700, ELGY wrote:

The skimmer well is connected to the pool by an always open channel. The
water level in the well is always the same as the pool.

I agree. So you can put a valve in the skimmer; and that will turn on when
the skimmer water well drops too low.

But then, how do you get EXTRA water (from a garden hose for example) into
the skimmer?

The skimmer cover (from the top deck) is about a foot from the edge of the
pool. Assume the garden hose connection is twenty feet away.

Is the proposal to snake a garden hose twenty feet across the lawn and
concrete deck and then just dump it into the top of the skimmer with the
top removed?

That's what confuses me. How do you get the water INTO the skimmer when
most skimmers (that I know of) are built into the concrete deck of the
pool.

There's no entrance (other than the top cover); but if you use the top
cover, someone is gonna trip on the garden hose and break their neck.

Did I miss something?

You can't just pull the top cap off the skimmer and dump a garden hose down
it as it will be snaking across the deck ... so how do you get water INTO
the skimmer from an outside source?

I'd love to know ('cuz I'd implement it myself!).