I had to clean the leaves out of the pump basket today and backwash my pentair Triton II sand filter for the first time since the pool guy wont be back for another week....

Does any one know how much sand is needed and the proper procedure for cleaning and refilling?

I am having a problem with air getting into my pump. There is a lot of air swishing around in the filter basket window and large bubbles are coming out of the return. No...

Pool pump runs fine for the first ten minuetes when it is turned on but pressure spraying water back into pool slows. Pressure on the filter seems hi but filter is...

This is a strange thing, after I back washed and drained the filter, the pumper (brand new) is always half full, as soon as the water went beyond the basket, the filter...

no matter what i set my feeder at ,i get high bromine reading.

Seems that the returns are losing water in my liner pool. Cant find the leak and I do not want to compromise the cement deck by digging too much.

Should I just run...

The pool is 3 months I ordered the Polaris 380 with the booster pump.

Pool cleaner worked fine for about six weeks, then one afternoon I found the fish eye wall...

When I vacuum what is being taken off the bottom is coming out of the jets. Filter/Pool is only on it's 3rd season. I did not have this problem any previous year!! Can...

My pump has several dials-there are a few I don't know what to use them for. Please help. This is a Hayward Vari Flo XL. The dials are:

Filter - which I run my system...

I have a Jacuzzi brothers ss-160 filter. I took the valve off last night to check the spider gasket. The gasket was worn and needs to be replaced. When I reassembled the...

I just had all 4 of my lines replaced. Had an air leak in the suction side and since I had the returns right below them, I had them replace everything. My question is...

I opened my pool about three weeks ago. Water was fine and very clean. Pressure has been going up a little more than usual, but I thought it was due to just opening and...

I am in a foreign country so it's not always very easy to get help and proper equipment.

I had a non-working pressure gauge on my sand filter that I decided to...

This weekend I installed a Triton II filter and a whisper flo 1hp pump in my 30000 gallon pool. The filter seems to work fine up until I use the backwash. Once I do...

Out of the blue the pump stoppe pulling prime. I resealed all the couplings/fittings expecitng an air leak and still the same occurs.

I can see the water in the...

I'm in the process of changing the pump and filter and am redoing the plumbing. The original system had a skimmer, a deep end water intake and a shallow end return line....

Have an 18 ft AG pool. Had a 1 hp Jacuzzi pump and filter and a lomart skimmer. Pump went bad so changed to a New Hayward power flo matrix 1 hp pump that was new but got...

I just had all my lines replaced but when they re-plumbed the filter, pump,etc. they did not use a quick disconnect on any of it. I always had it that way so that I...

I have a 16x24 kayak pool and If I want to set the valve to bottom drain only it works for about 3 minutes then the hose starts collapsing and then wont flow. Its...