What Not To Do To Your DE Filter

[huskyrider]

Actually I didn't think it looked that bad, I've seen them much worse after several years of service without being broken down and cleaned. They simply backwashed over and over again. These folks explained that we used to go for months between backwashing and now it's gone to a matter of days and we always made sure to add our DE after backwashing, LOL!!!
I have to somewhat disagree with waterbear. IMO a DE filter should be broken down and cleaned after every third or fourth backwash.

See Ya,
Kelly

[waterbear]

Actually I didn't think it looked that bad, I've seen them much worse after several years of service without being broken down and cleaned. They simply backwashed over and over again. These folks explained that we used to go for months between backwashing and now it's gone to a matter of days and we always made sure to add our DE after backwashing, LOL!!!
I have to somewhat disagree with waterbear. IMO a DE filter should be broken down and cleaned after every third or fourth backwash.

See Ya,
Kelly

Huskyrider, let me ask you this....what happens when you run a DE filter without DE in it? the grids foul, right? Why is running unfiltered water
BACKWARDS through the grids not going to foul them just as easy?