dirty water

[PoolDoc]

Love your street name!

My favorite around here are "Hog Jowl Rd" (in the small town where I grew up) and "Booger Holler Rd" (on the way to a pool I serviced -- it's actually a Cherokee reference, rather than what people think). I hate the faux 'upper class' names builders create, like "Oake Pathe Lane" . . . . or "Willow Oak Drive" . . . in the middle of an old tree-less cow pasture!

OK. Enough of that.

Sounds like the dirt is blowing through your filter. AG pools are almost always installed with oversized pumps and undersized filters, when what they need are oversized filters and undersized pumps! With a sand filter, the dirt can be SHOVED through the sand. Also, during backwash the high flow tends to blow the sand out of the filter.

So, do this:

1. Open your filter, and check your sand. You may need to add some.

2. If the filter is low, then you also need to slow the flow through the filter. You can do this by running on low speed (if you have a 2 speed) or by putting a valve between the pump and filter and throttling the flow, or by modifying or replacing the pump or by (best of all) getting a bigger filter.

3. Complete the pool chart (about 30 seconds) it will make it much easier for us to give you good advice

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