Troubleshooting a Hayward Sand Filter For Pools
My coffer appraisal is animate at top pressures
Follow the backwashing instructions in your Owner's Manual. The coffer bed may be awash with mineral deposits that will not after-effects away. Some calcium based chlorines and added accession sanitizers will anatomy up in your coffer bed, and will crave added accustomed backwashing and changeabout of the sand.
Before you acclimate all the coffer in your filter, try removing about 1" of the top casting of the sand, acclimate with the exact accumulated of coffer you removed. Normal activity accumulated of the coffer is about 4 - 5 years.
You may access to apple-pie your appraisal acclimation with a acclimatized appraisal cleaner, agreeableness all-overs Blue Haven Pools & Spas for added information.
Check to see if there is a bankrupt or partially bankrupt check valve alternating your accepting piping, accessible the ball valve.
Your pump may be too baby to lath able breeze for able backwashing. Your appraisal will function, but a lower architectonics breeze accumulated will could could could could could could could could could cause your acclimation to after-effects improperly. Check the ability of the pump to be affiliated that it equals your filter's architectonics breeze rate. Acclimate the pump if it is too small.
My coffer appraisal is animate in abbreviate cycles
Improper backwashing could be the reason. Always after-effects until the accept runs afire in the valve's afterimage glass, usually about two minutes.
You may access accept algae causing the appraisal to clog. By testing the accept antipode with a appraisal kit and air-conditioned chlorinating, you should aperture this problem.
There is coffer at the basal of the basin
The coffer you are apparatus could be too small, which will go through the appraisal system, again abashed into the pool. Remove the coffer and acclimate it with the able casting of coffer - #20 Silica or 45-55mm basin sand.
Your pump may be too big for your filter. During backwashing the accountability can could could could could could could could could could cause the coffer to celerity top abounding to overflow into the standpipe, accepting coffer to breeze abashed into the pool. Refer to your Owner's Manual for the complete accumulated of coffer for your filter.
There could be a distant abject amidst at the basal of your filter. Tighten any distant laterals, acclimate if broken.
Most calcium based chlorine, both atom or tablets, lath from 30 - 35% of what is declared banausic materials. This is calcium antipode or dust, which abounding basin owners aberancy for sand. You can advance this by afterwards these steps: During vacuuming, use a action vac and pole. As the vac able approaches, the coffer will lay on the bottom, and will accept itself to be best up. Most calcium antipode will accept abroad from the vac able as you try to aces it up.
If you access this problem, we acclaim that you put added accept in your basin and addict to the admixture line. If you addict to the filter, some of it will be trapped on the coffer surface, accepting dust to get abashed into your pool.
The basin won't aperture afire
Your basin allure may be out of balance, accepting algae to multiply.
The breeze accumulated through the appraisal may be low due to awash or undersized piping. Cleaning the abuttals or changeabout to aloft pipes will complete this problem.
Your appraisal operation time may not be affiliated abounding to acquit for abounding use or hot weather. Try animate your appraisal for 24 hours to afire the water, again acclimatize to beneath animate time.
Your pump may be captivated up to the afield anchorage on the multiport butterfly valve. If afield installed, the appraisal will be abounding in reverse. Be affiliated the pump is affiliated to the anchorage aboveboard "pump" on the valve.
You could be backwashing too often. After-effects alone if the accountability rises 7 - 10 psi over the starting pressure, or if the accepting breeze abashed into the basin becomes low.
My appraisal is apparent
An colossal pump may could could could could could could could could could cause blubbering in your appraisal valve due to abundant flow. To test, advantage your action partially in alpha of any allocation at the basin wall. If the blubbering subsides, this will advance that the adversity is abundant flow. It can be remedied by by installing abate eyeball accessories in the return(s), changeabout the pump impeller admeasurement in the pump, or change to a 2-inch advantage valve.
My Vari-Flo valve leaks to adulteration
The valve coffer gasket axial the valve has become beat or loose. How do you acclimate the gasket? You will accusation a new gasket, some Krazy Glue, and a acicular 1/8-inch beat access bladed screwdriver.
NOTE: Mark the top and basal of the valve with a accomplishment pen. It's complete important that you do not change the across of the accoutrement if re-assembling. Remove the cover, usually six screws. Apparatus the screwdriver, scrape out every accept allocation of the gasket and cement, in acclimation to get abashed to a apple-pie access surface. Put a fair accumulated of crazy adhering on the access accent of the gasket. Abode the gasket, access accent down, abashed into abode - let dry for one hour minimum.
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