How-To: Pool Filter Sand (With Pics)

[Verbosity]

What you need:
Pool Filter Sand
5 Gallon Bucket
Water Hose with Jet Spray nozel on the end.

Poor about 1.5 gallons worth of sand in. (See Picture)


Fill the bucket with water from the hose.. Be sure to heavily stir the sand up in the bucket as you spray the water in.


Now tip the bucket and let all of the dirty water out. Stop when sand starts to poor out. Do not let the water settle after you feel the bucket.
Keep repeating this until the water is clear! It will take a minimum of 10 times.


When you are done this is what the water should look like:


You have now removed the things that will cloud up your water from the filter sand. The amount cleaned is enough to do a 15 gallon tank.


Here's the tank 1 day after sand was added.

 

[mikeymik'd]

For the stirring step use of a drill and mixer blade (used for mixing self leveling cement) works well and lowers the number of times you need to repeat the step.

 

[The Amazonian]

Nice!

 

[jgallagher1980]

the water pressure from my hose was more than enough to stir up the sand, still took about 15 minutes per bucket, but it looks great in the tank, well worth it

 

[KnightWolf87]

The pool filter sand I am going to be using cleaned up with only 15 minutes of flushing and periodic hand stirring. I just stuck the hose at the bottom of the bucket, dumped sand on top of hose, turned it on, and let it do its thing.

 

[benzjamin13]

Nice job!

 

[Davey_8313]

Thanks man. I was thinking about doing sand in my 300 and now I think I will.

 

[Arturo]

Great advice. Thanks.

 

[Pharaoh]

Nice looking how-to.