Hi everyone, my issue is that my pool remains cloudy following around a month past season opening. The chemistry is balanced. I have not seen incremental improvement of the cloudiness in comparison to prior years. I’ve begun to suspect that my sand filter is not removing debris from the water, or if it is, it is performing at a poor level.
I’ve noticed that my Hayward filter and top-mounted spider valve has a rather noisy rattling sound near the top of the filter, where the spider valve is mounted in my setup. I wonder if it’s sand futzing around the top of the filter, making the noise. I’ve wondered if there‘s an issue between the internal connection between the spider valve and the waterflow distribution piping that sits beneath the valve, internal to the filter.
I‘m thinking about removing the spider valve and do a sandflush with garden hose, the sort of sand cleaning that’s described elsewhere on the forum. By removing the spider valve, I could do an inspection of the piping to see if there’s a problem.
Does this plan sound like a proper next step? Would you recommend I proactively buy a replacement piping setup - assuming something like that is sold independently of an entirely new sand filter - before I begin the sand flush process?
I’ve noticed that my Hayward filter and top-mounted spider valve has a rather noisy rattling sound near the top of the filter, where the spider valve is mounted in my setup. I wonder if it’s sand futzing around the top of the filter, making the noise. I’ve wondered if there‘s an issue between the internal connection between the spider valve and the waterflow distribution piping that sits beneath the valve, internal to the filter.
I‘m thinking about removing the spider valve and do a sandflush with garden hose, the sort of sand cleaning that’s described elsewhere on the forum. By removing the spider valve, I could do an inspection of the piping to see if there’s a problem.
Does this plan sound like a proper next step? Would you recommend I proactively buy a replacement piping setup - assuming something like that is sold independently of an entirely new sand filter - before I begin the sand flush process?