Oh, and I know it's DE because, when I vacuum the pool, there's an excessive amount of DE in the leaf trap.
Re: Too much DE in pool
Oh, and I know it's DE because, when I vacuum the pool, there's an excessive amount of DE in the leaf trap.
20,000 gallon plaster (concrete) pool
DE filter
Nature 2 (unchanged)
Re: Too much DE in pool
So . . . fix your filter.
Re: Too much DE in pool
If I could find what's wrong with it, it would have been fixed months ago. Are you saying that it will then filter the DE? That that's how I get it out of the pool?
20,000 gallon plaster (concrete) pool
DE filter
Nature 2 (unchanged)
Re: Too much DE in pool
I know that the filter has a leak - I've been looking for the source of it for about 3 years. But it's not any worse than it was, and this incident happened some time in March.
20,000 gallon plaster (concrete) pool
DE filter
Nature 2 (unchanged)
Re: Too much DE in pool
I'm not talking about a water leak. DE will not pass through a functioning DE filter.
In fact, it won't even pass a functioning sand or cartridge filter ( though it can DAMAGE cartridges!). I've actually used that fact for years to test sand filters.
Re: Too much DE in pool
Ah, OK, thanks.
Well, I can take it apart again, the 3rd time, and see if I spy anything. But I'm pretty sure it would have turned up before.
20,000 gallon plaster (concrete) pool
DE filter
Nature 2 (unchanged)
Re: Too much DE in pool
It's actually pretty straight forward:
+ You put DE in the skimmer.
+ DE shoots out of the returns.
+ Ergo, EITHER the piping is malfunctioning, and bypassing the filter
+ OR the piping is working AND the FILTER is malfunctioning.
DE does not pass THROUGH properly functioning DE filters.
Period.
But unless you REALLY know the filter . . . and how ALL the icky bits actually WORK . . . finding the bypass point can be a challenge.
PoolDoc / Ben
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