I have a 20' Intex AGP that I'm in process of reopening. I have a Intex sand filter which came with the pool. I let the water turn green over the winter. Two days ago I started slamming. The green went away within a few hours resulting in the water turning grey. I scooped and vacuumed the muck off of the bottom. With the filter running 24/7 for two days now the water is still cloudy with visibility of maybe a foot or so deep. Wanting to speed things up a tad and after reading somewhere on here that a sand filter only filters particle sizes of 30 plus and cartridge filters get particle sizes down to 10 or thereabouts I came up with the hare-brained idea of trying a dual filter setup, sand and cartridge. I had an cartridge filter system from an older Intex pool. I ran the output of the sand filter to the input of the cartridge filter system and the output of that system back to the pool. I'm only running the pump on the sand filter system and it seems to handle pushing the water through the sand and through the cartridge filter and non-operating pump and back to the pool with no problem.
Has anyone else tried anything like this before? I figure the sand filter will catch most stuff and the cartridge will get the smaller stuff and not have to be cleaned out very often. Not sure I will continue this setup after the water clears up but who knows, I might? Any suggestions/recommendations? I have plenty of time right now due to little to no work as a result of the Corona virus.
Does anyone know if there's a relatively small cartridge filter available that hooks up separate from the Intex pump (or any other brand)?
Has anyone else tried anything like this before? I figure the sand filter will catch most stuff and the cartridge will get the smaller stuff and not have to be cleaned out very often. Not sure I will continue this setup after the water clears up but who knows, I might? Any suggestions/recommendations? I have plenty of time right now due to little to no work as a result of the Corona virus.
Does anyone know if there's a relatively small cartridge filter available that hooks up separate from the Intex pump (or any other brand)?