Swimming Pool Filter Blowing Sand

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Swimming pool filter blowing sand. Intex sand filter settings explained duration. As the filter sucks in the water from the skimmer hose it filters the dirt and debris releasing clean water back through the pool s return jet. Pool filter sand can be purchased at larger home stores or a gravel sand yard or water treatment stores local pool suppliers or online. Swimming pool tips reviews how to spl 672 926 views.

Swimming pool information pool care pool water discussion forums swimming pool problem help. This year our pool started out dark green and gross. No filter is designed to have dirt go through the filter and re enter the swimming pool. Troubleshooting a swimming pool sand filter unlike a torn pleat in a cartridge filter or a torn grid in a de pool filter might be hard to find.

Don t know the model right off. Vacuum all the sand out of the pool as quickly as possible because you ll lose a lot of water in the process. Vacuum your pool manually. I have a 24 round 52 tall above ground pool with a hayward sand filter with multi setting valve.

When i try to vacumn it blows the cruddy water right back into the pool. If your pool has a sand filter it goes without saying that the sand should stay in the filter. Sand for pool filters is graded to 45 55mm size otherwise known as 20 silica sand. Generally pool filter sand lasts about 5 7 years before it wears out and needs to be replaced except for very small filters used on aboveground pools which usually need new sand much sooner.

If the pool filter media is bad or there s a broken lateral you can t know simply by opening the lid on the swimming pool sand filter and looking inside. A sand filter needs backwashing when the pressure gauge reads 8 10 lbs higher than the pressure after cleaning. The sand filter is a hayward s 190t. My pool will not clear up and i have scooped out piles of sand from the bottom of the pool.

Post by yankeee fri 18 jul 2008 17 22. You want to vacuum the sand directly out of the pool and not through the filter or the sand will get stuck in the laterals and you ll have to start all over. Pool sand filter tips tricks troubleshooting sand filter part 1 duration. The most common problem is a cracked lateral which is one of the perforated pipes at the bottom of the filter that catches water that has circulated through the sand.

If you see it blowing out into the pool something is broken. If dirt is making its way back into the pool try a few remedies.