Rubber Duck
06-29-2012, 03:12 PM
Greetings Ya'll! Hope everyone is having a great and safe summer so far. this is my second posting.
We recently had to take down our above ground pool (18 foot) to make room for our new house. We priced new pools and are not in our budget for this year.
So in a pinch we bought a 16 foot 42 inch deep Intex Easy Set pool. It was on sale for $179 so how can we go wrong?! A friend of ours came with a backhoe and leveled out an area for us and even brought us a load of sand. took hubby and I three days of raking the sand out to get it level. But we did and got the pool up. Loving it so far!
Except that the cartridge filter system that comes with it we noticed does not filter nearly as good as what our old sand filter did. So this is my question:
Since we still have the old Hayward sand filter and pump which works. The sand filter did have a few spindles in it broken, so it use to spit sand back into the pool. Can we use this on the Easy Set pool? Or would it be too powerful? The pressure guage on the sand filter is broken, and except for that and the spindles, it otherwise works. Can we plug the pump into the outside extension cord? Since the cord on the pump will not reach the outlet on the back of the house.
We recently had to take down our above ground pool (18 foot) to make room for our new house. We priced new pools and are not in our budget for this year.
So in a pinch we bought a 16 foot 42 inch deep Intex Easy Set pool. It was on sale for $179 so how can we go wrong?! A friend of ours came with a backhoe and leveled out an area for us and even brought us a load of sand. took hubby and I three days of raking the sand out to get it level. But we did and got the pool up. Loving it so far!
Except that the cartridge filter system that comes with it we noticed does not filter nearly as good as what our old sand filter did. So this is my question:
Since we still have the old Hayward sand filter and pump which works. The sand filter did have a few spindles in it broken, so it use to spit sand back into the pool. Can we use this on the Easy Set pool? Or would it be too powerful? The pressure guage on the sand filter is broken, and except for that and the spindles, it otherwise works. Can we plug the pump into the outside extension cord? Since the cord on the pump will not reach the outlet on the back of the house.