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A.M.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2025
Had an issue with the seal leaking on the diverter valve after almost 2 years, reached out via email and replacement part shipped out promptly. Excellent customer service..
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2024
Totally bad a$$! If you can manage basic plumbing, it's a cake walk to hook up. It's twice the size of the one that was replaced. I went from gross brown/green water to Chrystal clear in 3 days. Just buy it.
jim hummel
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2024
Liked it was cheaper than the other that looks the same. Perfect for clearing up my water. Filled with new sand, ran for a day and clean water as a result. My pressure is running at 10 psi. No quality issues at all. Just opened the pool this year, working great.
CityZero
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024
This SHOULD be a 5-star review, BUT... More on the but in a bit... So, this replaced an almost identical filter. The standpipe and lateral hub cracked on the old filter (from freezing without the filter being drained) so it was blowing sand into the pool. Plumbing matched, so no PVC work. Filled the drum with 300# of 20 screened filter sand. Fired it up on backwash and water was pouring out of the sight glass area. I tightened it by hand which resulted in a slower leak, but any further tightening made the rubber gasket kinda fold and go partially in the multi port valve. I tried 8 wraps of Teflon tape with little if any improvement. Doubling up the rubber gasket with a hose washer helped a little, but water still leaks on backwash, rinse and waste. It it was a standard thread I could plug it, because it's really unnecessary anyways. But it's got weird, wide threads... So, I either have to deal with it when backwashing, or I'll have to waterweld it or something to cap it off.Otherwise it's a great filter, and our pool is crystal clear. Make sure to Teflon tape the pressure gauge, or just get a 1/4" stainless plug to take it out of the mix (same gauge failed on old filter and shot about 5000 gallons of water into the backyard when we were on vacation). Chlorine eats those fittings up after a year or two. When you've had a pool for long enough, you know when it's time to backwash anyways.
Tony P
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2023
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RN
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2023
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TN
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2020
I had an undersized cartridge filter for a large inground pool. I upgraded to this 24" sand filter. Not only is my water much cleared without all the chemicals, but the maintenance is SO much easier. All I have to do to maintain it is occasionally backwash and flush if by moving a lever a few times. It literally takes less than five minutes and I don't lift anything, move anything or get the hose out. No more lugging a heavy, water soaked cartridge out, dropping it half the time, hosing it, lugging it back to the filter housing and STILL not getting clean water. I'll never go back to a cartridge filter again. This doesn't get overwhelmed with algae like the other filter. It needs backwashed less often. I don't have to buy expensive cartridges. The sand should last years. It was easy to install. I just watched a YouTube video and did it myself with minimal tools in a couple hours. I used the pump I already had. It's just in one side and out the other. Everything else is already built into the head. You just have to put the sand inside. I added fittings that would unscrew so in a few years I could unscrew the head to remove it for service. I am beyond pleased!!
Alan T. Wootton
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017
Don't try to use the supplied pressure gauge with the filter! They DO NOT MATCH.Generally it's a simple and working product. I would recommend it. Some say that a 'sand filter' doesn't work effectively but I beg to differ (and that's a different topic). It filtered my 36" in-ground kidney shaped pool with a 1 hp pump in 24 hours. I used 6 bags of sand from the local pool supply (300 lbs). It had been weeks since the old filter cracked open along the bottom and utterly failed so the pool was filthy.I haven't needed to backwash it yet (since the initial flush to clean the new sand). The pressure loss through the filter is only 4 psi and the throughput is much much larger than what was happening with my old cartridge filter.In my adventures I have seen the inside of the valve and it's simple and ingenious and should last for years and years.However, it came with a pressure gauge which seems to be meant to screw into the back of the housing where the air release valve lives (on the left of the bottom picture). Even though the size and the threads match, the ABS plastic housing is NOT threaded to the NPT standard like the pressure gauge is (all the gauges are NPT like that). NPT threads are tapered and the female end, on the housing is NOT. So, it leaks. And leaks. I started with sealant and then moved to teflon tape. Leaks. I was living with that while deciding what to do. There is a clear warning label right there that, in plain English, warns against over-tightening and they really mean it because what happened next is that the pool guy came and used a tool to tighten it and cracked the housing. Duh.So, I have learned a lot about "ABS plastic welding" and you, dear reader, can know to NOT try to use that supplied pressure gauge, or any gauge, with the filter. One must mount a gauge on the inlet pipe instead.
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