I dont have access to cellulose fiber filter aid. My pool supplier tells me using DE powder (he has heard and used this technique before) can change the nature of the media, making it rather sticky or guewy.
Using zeolite, if it isn't cleaned / backwashed properly will send all its sediment into the pool.
Fortunately for me, i took extensive precautions to backwash over and over until it came clean.
When i reported the cloudiness late last night, the next day today, in light of the day, it didn't appear half as bad as it appeared in the pool light at night.
And then, late in the day, more or less 24 hrs later, its just a little hazy so it is pulling all its fine sediment (whether it is remnants of zeolite or not), back into the filter.
I'm sweeping every hour or 2 to insure it wont settle to the bottom but instead into the filter.
Once the water is where it was 24 hours ago, virtually crystal clear, i will perform an intensive backwash with a heavy rinse....
....I dont want to take another chance blowing the stuff back into the pool again should air gets sucked into the lines again. This has happened to me before with regular sand and it think the phenomenon has happened again to me last night.
4 weeks ago, the water was pretty disgusting. You could not see the bottom and the water looked black!
So it has come a long way....
Even if there isn't any significant change in PSI, i still will do the backwash.
Only time will tell but i will keep the forum posted as to what my findings are
Using zeolite, if it isn't cleaned / backwashed properly will send all its sediment into the pool.
Fortunately for me, i took extensive precautions to backwash over and over until it came clean.
When i reported the cloudiness late last night, the next day today, in light of the day, it didn't appear half as bad as it appeared in the pool light at night.
And then, late in the day, more or less 24 hrs later, its just a little hazy so it is pulling all its fine sediment (whether it is remnants of zeolite or not), back into the filter.
I'm sweeping every hour or 2 to insure it wont settle to the bottom but instead into the filter.
Once the water is where it was 24 hours ago, virtually crystal clear, i will perform an intensive backwash with a heavy rinse....
....I dont want to take another chance blowing the stuff back into the pool again should air gets sucked into the lines again. This has happened to me before with regular sand and it think the phenomenon has happened again to me last night.
4 weeks ago, the water was pretty disgusting. You could not see the bottom and the water looked black!
So it has come a long way....
Even if there isn't any significant change in PSI, i still will do the backwash.
Only time will tell but i will keep the forum posted as to what my findings are