Hello!
Have any of you had Perlite feel like like sand after it has "fully" dissolved? I am dissolving the product in a bucket prior to precoating the filter, just like I have with DE over the past 10 years and yet it seems very grainy in the bucket. The filter is purging this "sand" from the air release valve and I have a feeling that it is clogging the flow of the filter (pressure rising very quickly). While I am still in mid-SLAM, the process of getting the water to clear seems much slower than in other years.
I thought that becoming sanding maybe has something to do with my pool water and it's chemistry, yet I have the same results when I dissolve the the DicaPool in a bucket of tap water. We started this season with Leslie's DE and I switched to DicaPool about one backwash into the opening process....
We are about to open the filter, rinse the entire thing, and start again.
Any advice thoughts are appreciated.
(I edited this post...)
Tami
Have any of you had Perlite feel like like sand after it has "fully" dissolved? I am dissolving the product in a bucket prior to precoating the filter, just like I have with DE over the past 10 years and yet it seems very grainy in the bucket. The filter is purging this "sand" from the air release valve and I have a feeling that it is clogging the flow of the filter (pressure rising very quickly). While I am still in mid-SLAM, the process of getting the water to clear seems much slower than in other years.
I thought that becoming sanding maybe has something to do with my pool water and it's chemistry, yet I have the same results when I dissolve the the DicaPool in a bucket of tap water. We started this season with Leslie's DE and I switched to DicaPool about one backwash into the opening process....
We are about to open the filter, rinse the entire thing, and start again.
Any advice thoughts are appreciated.
(I edited this post...)
Tami
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