If you can figure out how to attach it to your pool devil that would work too... Or you can just simply vaccum on recirculate, if you clamp and apply the bag to one of your return jets.
No one here is going to believe me here, but it took me 4 years to figure out a recirculating sediment issue I would see in the same place every year, and I don't have a sand filter in on cartridge.
Thanks to a cheap manual vacuum head (and not my auto vac) was leaching fine sand sediment grit and crushed seashell onto my floor, and when I would vacuum it up after it got stuck in the wrinkles of my liner floor, (again no one will believe me) it would bypass my skimmer sock, and my brand new 10 micron pleatco cartridge filter during vaccuming, become lodged in the ripples of my return hose, eyeballs, and housing, and would show back up 15 to 20 minutes later in the same spots during normal pump run. Even though I was very green (see what I did there) on water chemistry at the time, for 3 years on here, TFP experts would tell me... NO ITS ALGAE... BRUSH BRUSH BRUSH...And I would be like, no its not Algae... Its not slimy, it doesn't have biofilm, my numbers, and FC levels are perfect, water clarity is perfect, it reappears in the same spots of my floor everytime, its gritty, and it goes poof when I touch it under water.
That's when I heard about things on this site like using the Duda Diesel Bag, or Slime Bag, or Biogaurd or whatever its called, or other mediums of fabrics at lower micron levels to filtrate finely suspended particles that were getting pasted the filtration system.
Think about it in theory. You go down to anything that filters out at 5 micron to 1 micron, you will have eliminated the use for DE and backwashing, when clearing out the nasty stuff, and once you do get clear, use the bag occasionally to polish the water clarity when it looks a little hazy or off...back to sparkling clear, without the unnecessary clairfiers and flocculant that clog up your sand, and waste your water.
I get billed very heavily around here for water usage because they hit me twice for sewer during water consumption. My first two years, between flocculant, replacing a return jet housing, and green pools, just topping off a 1/4 to an 1/8th of the pool would cost me hundreds of dollars. The pool store used to cost me hundreds of dollars. So after my second year I said there's got to be more efficient way. Now I don't top off nothing, my pool overflows now.
I let just the chlorine, the filtration, proper run time for water clarity, my little bag medium, keeping my pool clear. I let mother nature do the work.
I kind of have heavily promote the concept and practice of the bag or other mediums around here, although I learned it from other members here that were willing to experiment a little. BECAUSE A $5 POOL HACK saves time, saves money, saves chemicals, saves water, saves electric, if you look at the overall cost. Because when something isn't running efficiently, then it's costing you money.....
