Want to know how to install a sand dollar filter to the pool

all you need is a pole, a vacuum hose, and a vacuum head. connect the hose to the vacuum head and the head to the pole. Submerge the vacuum head and the pole into the pool and push the vacuum hose slowly straight down so that it fills with water. Once the entire vacuum hose is filled with water, plug it into the skimmer suction or wall port. You may have to adjust the valves at the pump to increase suction to wherever you have to vacuum hose plugged in to.

Hope this helps

Here is a copy of the users manual for these pool filters. Page 5, specifically, should help you because it has a diagram of the filter and where the hose connections are. It should have everything you need to get it set up properly.

http://www.backyardcitypools.com/images/hayward/side-mount-filter-manual.pdf

Hayward should stand behind their filter. If the unit is only two months old, the seller should be helping you. If there is sand in the pool, it is because on the bottom of the filter is a distributor which is tubing with many thin slits. The slits are small enough that sand can not get through. If a piece of the tubing breaks or if it is not installed tightly, sand will continue to get out and into your pool. If you Google Hayward, I'm sure customer support will be able to help you.
Gary

This website contains a copy of the owners manual for the S180T pool filter. It should have all of the information that you need.

http://www.backyardcitypools.com/images/hayward/pro-series-manual.pdf

It is in PDF format. let me know if you have any trouble opening it.

Try consulting the owners manual for these pool filters for more info. I can tell you that you need to have your valve set to rinse for normal vaccuming and waste for heavily soiled pools. Hope this helps.

http://www.backyardcitypools.com/images/hayward/pro-series-manual.pdf

YES BUT PRICE OF SAND FILTER WILL PROBALLY COST MORE THAN THE POOL ITSELF

ok -
1. go to k-mart or pool shop and get yourself some pool socks.
Pool socks fit over your skimmer filter and will filter out smaller bits before going into your filter system - very good to use when 'vac'ing your pool when there are lots of particals in your pool.

2. If you have a sand filter system - you will have a control handle some where on your pipe work near your filter, which will have around some settings you can select with handle... like....> Normal, backwask, rinse, recirculat + others PLUS a pressure guage.

If you do have this sytem - 'vac' your pool on Normal - then when finished OR pressure builds - back wash - rinse - then back to normal.

sorry about spelling :)

If sand is returning to the pool, the most common cause is the laterals, or the internal pipe is not connected to the valve properly.

If you have laterals with "slots" on one side and solid plastic on the other side, the slots have to be installed so that the slots face downward, toward the bottom of tank. If one, or more, are facing upwards, you are pulling sand right into the pool. If you have the newer laterals, with slots on all four sides, one, or more, may not be tightly in place.

If you have too much sand in the filter, that could cause this issue also. Pentair recommends using the #20 Standard Silica Sand in the filters.

Hope this helps!

from the skimmer to inlet pump -from outlet pump to in let filter -from out let filter back to pool return