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It was going into the side yard between our houses (mostly my side) but he was mad I was watering his bushes (I don't actually backwash that much). So then I used the vacuum hose to the back chain link fence and it was going into the alley. But it overflowed into his yard a bit tonight because...

mine needs to go a good 75 feet and make a right angle pretty fast.

My neighbor doesn't like me to backwash next to his side so I need to figure out how to get the water to the other side of the yard. The flat hose is awful, mostly because it won't make the turns. I was using a (too short) rigid vacuum hose, but it doesn't seem like the fittings will last...

It leaks at the handle only when backwashing/rinsing/recirc, so you think it's just the o-ring? should I go ahead and replace the spider gasket while I'm at it? There has been no change with the filter except that it started to lean, putting pressure on all the pipes going in. I had hoped...

My sand filter has started to vibrate (with a low vibration noise too) shortly after running. Its base was breaking and the whole thing was falling to the side, so I managed to get it onto blocks and straight again this week. I replumbed everything to the pump, between, and the return. But it...

It really is leaning to the side like that. - - - Updated - - - I have a leak coming from that first elbow on the way to the filter. Any ideas to fix that? Looks like I'd need to cut out both lines and redo those valves as well. :( The little one goes to the aerator.

The base that my sand filter sits on has completely broken to pieces. The filter is now tipped and leaning into the side of my house and the PVC going into the filter is crooked (and probably gonna crack somewhere). The pool store says I should just replace the whole filter since it's old...

Sorry, assumed people could see the details in sig - Hayward ultra pool vac.

My pool vac is painfully slow these days. The wings, shoes, and pods have recently been replaced (was working well for a while). I think the front/rear flaps too? It was getting all twisted every night but now it's not, just very slow. It turns left, right, and center. I also checked the...

Like what difference in cost? I run it 6-8 hours/day and my electric bill is $400 during summer and only $90-100 in the winter (which only seems like a differnce in A/C). It might cost me about $130 to replace impeller/seal/gaskets. Is it really worth it now? I'm wondering if it will just...

Really? It won't blow or overwhelm the rest of my system? I don't have a dedicated suction line to my pool vac. It runs out of a "vac mate" in the skimmer. I seem to remember this being a factor in my conversation with the guy at the store (which is a mom and pop shop, not a silly chain with...

The pool store says my sta-rite dyna-glas 1 hp pump has bit the dust. The bearings are bad and they said since it's made of "pot metal", the casing can't handle the replacement bearings and will just cause the new set to go bad within a few months. The impeller also broke and it needs a new...

Re: Repair starite - still chugging (new ?s added on post #1 Just wanted to update in case anyone wondered... I cut out all the PVC joints leading to the pump and took the entire pump in to the pool store to be tested (to be sure I wasn't crazy!). They suggested that since the return pipe was...