Recent content by David Hawkins

Thanks for all the feedback. My sand filter definitely does not have any type of collar on it - it looks like the entire top assembly must thread into the pressure vessel. Since it's filtering (the pressure does change over time and murky water comes out on backwash), I'm going to leave it be...

Gee...the 'Dream Pools' label was just a sticker. Peel it off and there it is in big letters - TAGELUS. Thanks Dave. If the 6 way valve doesn't have an air bleed on it, do you just push down on the lever to bleed the air out of the waste fitting?

The 'original version' looks like it's the one. So to look inside the unit or change out the sand you just unscrew the entire valve assembly from the fiberglass tank?

It's a Pac-Fab TA-60...pretty old, looks like the one that Dave linked, but older. We just removed the only fasteners on it (6 screws around the valve) and this allows the valve body to be removed, but that's it. Looking down, there was a chambered device with small holes that go into the main...

I just thought of something else...The pool has a 'Dream Pools TA-60' sand filter. There's a plug in the bottom that had been removed for winterizing...would this have removed the sand also? It'd be a real hoot if I were running an empty filter for the past two weeks. How do you check the...

Thanks Dave. I'll keep shocking it! It's a vinyl liner, 17000 gallon in ground pool with a sand filter.

We bought a pool with a house attached to in December and just opened it up two weeks ago. Mistake #1 was dumping everything from the cover into the deep end (accidentally...but a mistake nonetheless). The water was black for the first 4 days with the pump running constantly. Had the water...