Here ya! Taking sand out of a sand filter!
-get ready to get wet and make sure you have a couple of hours and a beer or two!
-Have something to put the sand in. I use my wheelbarrow.
-Have something to take the sand out with. Some people use a shop vac (wish I had known about that before I took mine out a cup at a time
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-Turn off pump.
-take filter apart. I am hoping you have unions. If you do not stop and let me know. You can look online to see how your filter and model works. There are so many different ways so I will let you take that part on.
-Take the sand out using care.
-Once all of the sand is out you will need to take the guts out. There should be a pipe with some things on the bottom of it. The things are called laterals. Some of them fold up. Some unscrew. Use care with them.
-Now would be a good time to let water run through/over/around your sand to clean it real good.
-look real close at your pipe and laterals. We had one person that had a tiny chip off the top of the pipe that was allowing sand to come back into the pool. Look at the laterals. Any cracks, broken ribs, etc?
What you find will tell you what to do-replace or put it back together.
When you go to put the sand back in the filter use care to NOT let any sand inside the pipe. I taped a cup over the hole. Fill the filter up about 1/3 with water to help cushion the fall of the sand. I put mine back in a cup at a time to be of the safe side.
I hope this helps. I bet you could also find a you-tube video.
Kim