Swimming pool sand filter is a cylindrical container which is filled with silica sand. It has two to six valves, depends on the functionality of valves. It intake the dirty water from the pool by using a pump, which passes through the silica sand & get filtered. This filtered water is again circulated into the pool. It is one of the effective and economic way of pool water cleaning. Pool water sand filter is basically made from fiberglass, plastic and stainless steel material.

Top mounted sand filter is a type of sand filter which has valves on the top of the filter container; whereas side mounted sand filter have valve on the side of the filter container. silica sand is used in both top and side mounted sand filters. The only difference is the position of valve fitted on sand filter.

Fiberglass is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet or cylindrical container. It is strong and lightweight material that consists of thin fibers of glass that can be transformed into a woven layer or used as reinforcement. It is commonly used type of material used in pool sand filter.

Selection of size of sand filter depends on the design flow of the filter and pump. Calculate the volume of your pool by using the simple volume formula and divide that volume  with the design flow of filtration plant per hour. The outcome value will gives you the number of hours that filtration plant will take to clean the pool water. So if you want to clean water in short time span than use a big filter and vice versa.

Good quality heavy duty sand filter can be functional for more than 15 years if proper care is taken. Although companies usually gives 1-1.5 years of warranty on swimming pool sand filter.

Yes, swimming pool sand filter are very effective and efficient way of water filtration. its comes with a 6 ways valve which auto clean feature of the filter. Fiber glass is a light, strong and durable material which is a long lasting material.

Water filtration system is a combination of pump and sand filter. pump take the dirty water from the pool and send it to the sand filter. when this dirty water passes through the silica sand filled in sand filter, it gets clean and clear. This filtered water is then send back to pool. this rotation of water keeps on repeating and the pool water continuously get cleaned.