Cleaning De Pool Filter Fingers

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Cleaning de pool filter fingers.

Cleaning your de filter involves three basic steps. If you have a local pool store nearby you can also pick up some filter grid cleanser that will also help you clean the grids and fingers even better. That is the most thorough way to clean a de filter. The first step in cleaning your de is to backwash.

The best thing to clean the fingers and grids with is high pressure from your garden hose. Hayward offers a wide variety of pool care products and filters for home use. Step 2 submerge the dirty pool filter cartridge in the soapy water. Fill a bucket deep enough to submerge the pool filter cartridge in warm water.

Using a degreaser like tsp or our de filter cleaner product soaking to remove oils is a good treatment every year or two to remove de grid fabric clogging oils. Backwashing cleaning the manifold and grid and adding new de. Have a good sprayer that isn t too hard to trigger so your hand doesn t get tired. Place the pool filter valve in the backwash position then start your pool pump.

Backwashing is just a fancy way of saying get the old de out of the filter. This is the key to cleaning your de filter grids and fingers. As you spray off your de filters the run off needs to go somewhere. Backwashing will clear out all the dirt and debris inside your de filter.

You can disassemble your filter and use a garden hose to clean off the de and rinse the filter housing. Pool lubricants and some gel type pool clarifiers can add oils to your pool which eventually is trapped in the filter grids. Add 1 cup of liquid dish soap per 5 gallons of water. But the beauty of most de filters is that you can get the old earth out without disassembling them.