We recently moved into a new house with an above-ground pool that i've been working on for two-weeks now. I started with the pool store, the analyzing, the $$$$, with no luck. Found you guys and a super-patient gentleman from here who has been tutoring me patiently by email all week and I now have a clean, chemically balanced pool! Woohoo!
However, it's staying cloudy and I'm guessing it's the sand. I believe the previous owner put kiddie sand in the filter since there was a bag of it near there and she doesn't have kids. Maybe an extra bag or something. So I'm going to try to change it out tonight. I have a Pentair Tagelus SD-40 19in Sand Dollar sand filter, Hayward pump and 13,000 above-ground pool. Hubby is bringing home a shop-vac from his work. How do we get the water out of it to get to the sand, then I assume we vacuum out the sand and add new sand I'll be purchasing from the pool store (how much?) Then how do we get water back in it and the thing to work?
That leads me to my other question. We've tried to change the broken gauge on it, but each time we have issues getting the pump to hold a prime. We bleed out the air, take out the gauge, screw in the other with teflon tape, switch it to close, run it, turn it to filter, then BLAH. Stops going like it has air. One thing I've noticed when backwashing or doing anything with it is that if the little cage thing in the skimmer that catches junk floats up and you turn the pump on, it loses it's prime. Is that only weird to me? What does pushing it down THEN turning it on have to do with it?
Thanks in advance, I know that's a lot!
Pam
Bookmarks