Recent content by Jax35son

Thanks for the advice. I am going to purchase some new grids and go from there.

Three of the ten grids. Sorry. There are 9 17” circular grids and one smaller about half the size.

Here are a couple pics of the tears. Could tears like this cause high pressure and put powder in the pool? Also, is there a test for algae?

i opened up the filter and three of the five grids have small tears. Upon closer inspection the four grids in the pool closet also have tears. Filters that look like mine run about $20 a piece. Realistically it looks like all ten need to be replaced. The filter looks fairly simple with few...

Water looks very good aside from the DE powder on the bottom. Water samples by pool store said everything looked good. Test strips look good. I’ve got the Taylor K-2006 kit coming Friday.

I’m hoping to use it as a filter for at least this summer. I was looking for model info to possibly find out what the normal pressure should read. I’m seeing DE powder at the bottom of the pool and the pressure on the filter reads 25 psi. I backwashed the filter and added new powder and the...

I figured it was old, but yikes. It sounds like a new filter is in my future. I will check out any discussions on new filters. The DE sounds good in theory but seems a bit complicated. Thank you for the info.

Hello all. We recently bought a house with a 25,000 gallon in ground pool. It is our first. We are in SW Michigan so we hope to get a few good months of use each year. We have used this forum to learn as much as possible but there are always more questions. Hopefully we will get up the learning...

I bought a house with a pool. It’s the first time I’ve owned a pool. I’m figuring it out as I go with the help of posts on this forum. There is lots of great info here so thank you to everyone. My filter is a DE with circular discs and is horizontal. The label is completely off. Does anyone one...