My original post: http://www.troublefreepool.com/just-bought-a-house-with-an-ignored-pool-t28261.html
I opened my filter for the first time today (had never actually seen inside a DE filter before other than pictures on here). The cloth bags around the plastic ribs are very yellow and a little moldy at the top. They also pretty much all have a small rip at the top where the gray plastic arms were holding them in place.
What am I probably looking at here? Just new cloth bags? New bags and ribs? A new filter? I sprayed a couple of them with the hose, but I don't think that the cloth is really going to be useful any more. Right about now I wish I had a sand filter :-D
Pictures: http://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae50/sickcoyote/DE Filter/
I opened my filter for the first time today (had never actually seen inside a DE filter before other than pictures on here). The cloth bags around the plastic ribs are very yellow and a little moldy at the top. They also pretty much all have a small rip at the top where the gray plastic arms were holding them in place.
What am I probably looking at here? Just new cloth bags? New bags and ribs? A new filter? I sprayed a couple of them with the hose, but I don't think that the cloth is really going to be useful any more. Right about now I wish I had a sand filter :-D
Pictures: http://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae50/sickcoyote/DE Filter/