First filter clean and SLAM!

[CombatVet13]

I went through my first SLAM, and first Cartridge filter clean since the completion of my first pool Opening Mid July.

Had a pool party this past Sunday, and the following day, I noticed I was going through chlorine abnormally high. Water remained clear etc., but fearing there was something in water, i started the slam yesterday. I brought it up to Slam level twice.

I’ll do the Overnight test tonight to confirm good. After a little over a month my filters were surprisingly very dirty.

 

[crabboy]

Unless you like cleaning filters, which I do not, you can probably go a lot longer between cleanings. They may look dirty, but you have a lot of filter surface area you can fill between cleanings. I'd keep an eye on the pressure rise or once a year whichever hits first.

Once a month will get old really quick.

 

[wireform]

What Crabboy said. Watch the gauge 25% rise from clean filter pressure is where you need to do this. Pictures of cartridges don't look bad at all and surely won't bring pressure up yet

 

[CombatVet13]

What Crabboy said. Watch the gauge 25% rise from clean filter pressure is where you need to do this. Pictures of cartridges don't look bad at all and surely won't bring pressure up yet

Good to know thanks! And I thought they look horrible lol!

 

[crabboy]

You'll see what dirty really looks like after a year.

I've got a wall of trees behind my pool and horrid pollen in the spring, and I don't see much over 5psi pressure rise over the year, so I clean post pollen in the late spring.