Sorry for what feels like wasting a post. Next year I'm considering ditching my DE filter and going cartridge. There are two reasons, primarily: one, I hate cleaning the DE filter, even if I only do it once a year. It makes a mess of my equipment pad and the surrounding area since the DE goes everywhere. Two, the plumbing to the garbage backwash slide valve has a very slow leak and needs to be re-done anyway. I'd rather simplify my plumbing and eliminate this all together and go cartridge.
My current setup has the backwash plumbed into the house (super convenient, and required by code for DE filters). Is there any reason to plumb in a Jandy 3-way before the filter so I could route the water to waste? In my head I feel like there's no harm (outside of the valve developing a leak), but I haven't had many times where I've actually NEEDED to drain to waste. Early this year we had a torrential downpour and my sump pump failed - and my pool overflows into the sump. The pool was about half an inch from the coping and there was more rain coming. I went out there and just opened the backwash valve drained it down that way. That's the only time I've needed something like that.
I could also just terminate the existing drain and put a cap on there so it can be used as a clean out for draining with a sump pump or some other purpose.
Any thoughts or considerations I'm missing?
My current setup has the backwash plumbed into the house (super convenient, and required by code for DE filters). Is there any reason to plumb in a Jandy 3-way before the filter so I could route the water to waste? In my head I feel like there's no harm (outside of the valve developing a leak), but I haven't had many times where I've actually NEEDED to drain to waste. Early this year we had a torrential downpour and my sump pump failed - and my pool overflows into the sump. The pool was about half an inch from the coping and there was more rain coming. I went out there and just opened the backwash valve drained it down that way. That's the only time I've needed something like that.
I could also just terminate the existing drain and put a cap on there so it can be used as a clean out for draining with a sump pump or some other purpose.
Any thoughts or considerations I'm missing?