Recent content by Rumple

The laterals are all good and I cleaned them with a tooth brush, just to make sure. The filter is a 300lbs sta-rite globe type that you can split in half. Easy to change the sand and inspect the laterals. I don't doubt the gage! When manually using the vaccum and the pressure goes up I lose...

I backwash it for at least 3 minutes, than rinse for 1. Like normal the intial flush for backwash the water is a little dirty, than it clears up really quick. After the back wash and rinse, cleaning the baskets and getting set up to manually vaccum. Turn the pump on, prime the vacum hose, clear...

I think you are missing the point here, the pressure goes up and the water doesn't move through the filter, very low to no flow on the return jets in the side of the pool.. I started the year with a pool full of fresh clear water, and a filter with new sand. It started this pressure rise from...

Currently my pool looks terrible! The only thing that was getting cleaner was my bank account. running the pump forever, adding chemicals and getting no where. With a clean pool to start and fresh sand it should of been working great. any ideas would be great!

End of last season! This year I emptied the pool completly to give it a scrub down, replaced sand and I replaced the 5 way gasket on the multi-port valve last year . Then refilled with fresh water. It started this Crud from day one, just like it ended last year.

I bought pool sand last year at LOWES about $7.50 per bag

:?: I'm really baffled on why my pump pressure jumps form 15 psi to 35? I first noticed this while trying to manually vaccum the pool. Pressure goes up, vaccum goes down! I've backwashed the filter, that solves the problem for about 10 minutes. Just long enough to make you mad!! :twisted: Both...