backwash

Hayward Sand Filter and pump, fresh sand, fresh fill. Year two with my Intex and hayward set up. Just had the pool filled by delivery truck today. Question: My pressure gauge indicates I need a backwash but when I do, the water in the sight glass is no where near as dirty as I would expect it...

Hey all, new to the forum here 👋 I recently bought a house with a pool and have been doing all maintenance myself, following the TFP method. It’s all going great! The only thing I can’t quite figure out, is how to backwash my sand filter. I’ve searched the forum and watched a bunch of videos...

Looks like freezing weather here caused the backwash/slide valve to leak in spite of me leaving the system running. It also looks like the handle locking pin has slipped out of place and has possibly contributed or caused my problem. Now I’m needing to replace the valve and I’m looking for some...

Does anyone have experience with appropriate places to drain backwash water if we have an aerobic septic system? We have a saltwater pool & sand filter. We are on large (approx 2 acre lots), but our lot has a lot of slope (toward them). Our neighbor is complaining about water coming from our...

Desperate need of help. I have a couple questions and need all tips u have. Backstory: Few weeks ago we got a new liner. As the pool was filling we saw the water coming out was brown. City water. Not well. Installer said to level the chemistry and run filter 24/7 a few days and we would be...

Hello! I'm a new pool owner of a previously built in ground pool, ~17000 gallons. For the first 2 months we lived in the home, I hired a pool company to help take care of the chemicals and equipment so we could settle in. They cleaned our Hayward DE filter at the end of May/early June. They have...

Hey, folks. Hope everyone is well. Pool is doing awesome here in central Illinois. Can’t thank you enough for liberating me from the tyranny of the pool-industrial complex. Question: The little glass window on the pool filter is filled with green stuff… algae, I imagine. I don’t...

I am new to this forum but I am having a weird issue that I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. We have a retaining wall that holds up our back yard and it was a railroad tie retaining wall, we had it replaced with blocks. When the contractors did that, they ran a PVC pipe the whole...

I've owned my pool for a few years now and finally now converting to the TFP method. My question is in regards to this backwash pipe that's in-ground. It's right in the middle of my backyard, so when I drain or backwash it floods my yard (and the neighbors). I am wondering if there is any sort...

Hi everyone. I am a new pool owner after buying my first house. I figured I’d enjoy pool care more than yard work so I picked a small home with an inground pool. I started doing a lot of research and have ended up on this site many times and finally decided to register haha. Thanks for the help...

Hello, I opened my pool on Monday and was treated to a green mess. I brought up my CYA to 30 from 0 and maintained a FC level of 12, checking every 3 hours. After about 24 hours, the pool turned blue, but even now, 6 days later, it is still very cloudy. I have a very oversized DE filter for my...

Hi, Just moved into this house in Spain. We are having a heck of a time getting someone to service our pool. So I have decided to educate myself. I started with the university of youtube and how to back wash seemed like a breeze, but then I saw our setup is very different from the videos I saw...

I have a 2800 gph Intex sand pump. I am trying to start the pool season, and I want to backwash the pump, which I used last year for the first time. I purchase one of the flat 2" hose but I can't seem to fit it on the drain of the pump. It is too tight somehow. I need a good 15 foot minimum...

Hello all, I'm a CPO at a Pool and Spa company and I recently had a customer inquire about their poor backwash pressure. The individual has an Eco-Kleer filter and pump system approximately 2 years and is now experience significant reduction in water pressure when backwashing (similar to that...

Hey all, just bought my first house and pool so trying to get up to speed with maintenance. Wanted to do a backwash but the handle was completely stuck. Used a tire iron to get more leverage and bent the brass handle :-( This is the filter I have: Pentair SMBW 4000 Series D.E. Filter with...

I am with American Home Shield and called them when my filter cracked. They sent a vendor out who modified the plumbing to where the backwash outlet is now facing the opposite direction (towards electrical outlets) and mis-threaded the salt cell. I want to know how difficult is it to change...

Howdy! In ground pool with attached spa, at least ten years old, installed by previous homeowners... The attached spa was dropping to the level of the pool water every time the pump shut off and I was "intermittently" losing water from the pool when the pump was running. I looked at the check...

I have a Hayward SP0740DE Valve Assembly Selecta-Flo 4-Way Valve for my DE filter. There are 4 settings; 1) filter 2) waste 3) backwash 4) spa or pool boost My question is; there’s no rinse setting....what am I missing? My pool guy gave me the run down several weeks ago on backwashing and it...

Hi all, I have a salt water pool with a DE filter. Water is leaking into the backwash line in filter mode, and exiting at the wastewater pipe at the front of my house. My pool guy's solution is to "clean the filter" and to install a "ball valve" at the front of the house, where the water is...

Today we had a large amount of rain. The pool water level got pretty high, so I decided to drain to a more acceptable level since more rain expected later this evening. I typically just set my filter to waste and turn the pump on 100%, lay out the backwash hose and just let it rip. As I...

My slider backwash valve is stuck. So stuck that I can't even turn the handle. So, I am planning on replacing it with a "Pentair 261152 Multiport Valve Kit 2in. Threaded" valve. First, I want to know if this is the right valve for my DE filter: 261152 Pentair Multiport Valve Threaded.jpg -...

Hi, we moved to our new house about a year ago and learning how to care for the pool. I know it's over due to be backwashed but all the instructions I can find specify the air valve on top of the tank needs to be opened first. I can not find any valves on top of the tank at all! Any help?

I backwashed my pool and added DE this weekend. Now I am having issues with lots of air in the line. The pool pump lost prime only once, but there are a lot of bubbles in the pump and coming out of the jets in the pool.

I have a DE filter that looks more like a cartridge (Pentair ECDE60). Does anyone know how frequent the DE should be backwashed/filter grids cleaned? Everything I read says when the pressure gauge raises 10 PSI above normal, but my gauge is broken. My filter is so BASIC it doesn't have a...