Need to remove side mount multiport to deep clean sand?

May 25, 2013
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Portsmouth, OH
My Triton sand filter has a side mount multiport valve. Is it OK to place the valve on "CLOSE", then remove top from the filter and use a garden hose to wash the sand? The sticky about deep cleaning says to isolate the filter from the pool plumbing, so should I remove the valve? I see no reason to remove it, because closing the valve in effect isolates the filter from the pool plumbing.
 
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