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I was reluctant to suck all that sand in the pool back through my new pool pump. I replaced my pump this year, but kept the old one. My old pump was beginning to make a humming noise. I suspect a bearing might be going out. I decided to design a way to use the old pump to vacuum the sand. I...

It's pushed in from the bottom of the standpipe, as if some massive pressure popped it out. I've never seen higher than 10-12 psi on the filter gauge. I still haven't heard from Hayward. Doheny's sent a generic reply to my email today with information on returns, and adding that there is a 20%...

Here are photos of my lateral assembly. The center piece at the bottom of the gray lateral assembly failed.

I bought and installed a Hayward 24" in-ground pool filter one year ago in June. I ordered a Hayward S244T2. The invoice from Doheny's just calls it a 24" sand filter. It worked great last year, and throughout most of this year. Recently, filter sand began flowing into the pool; a lot of sand...