Recent content by oldman

It really took me by surprise! First time I have ever had to pay labor charges on a warranty, especially after only two weeks. Just gonna eat the extra money. I hope other people who may have not known that about Hayward, will be careful!

I purchased a Hayward model ec40c92 series filter brand new in June of this year. I installed it and it ran great for two weeks and then I started hearing a noise inside the filter like a loose nut or screw turning around in the filter. I called up the place where I had bought the filter and...

I use to have a 18' X 48" softsided Intex pool with a Pentair 100 lbs sand filter with a 3/4 Hp and that worked great for years. Yes it is big for that pool, but It will filter out quicker. As far as for the adapters I used the inch to inch and a half fittings coming from pump to filter with...

That makes me feel better. Thanks guys for the quick reply. I have been spending hours looking at former post to that answer. Learned a lot of other things in the mean time. Great Site.

I searched but I can not or did not find yet an answer to my question. I have a pentair sandfilter TA 35/35D sand filter that pumps 35 GPM hooked up to a Hayward Power Flow Matrix 3/4 HP which pumps 80 GPM. Is this diffrence in GPM going to cause me a problem? I have used this system for the...

Thank you everybody for the warm welcome. This seems from the little browsing that I have been doing, to be a great site and forum. Well finally got my new liner back on the Th of June. Intex had me cut out a few different places of the liner and send it back to them, I sent it Express Mail...

Hi, I am a newbie to the forum. I registered because I was searching around the forum and found it to be a GREAT SITE for learning how to take care of pools. I have been using Intex Pools (18' X 48") (the one with a air ring around it) round pools for about 8 years now. This year we bought a...