I see everyone uses a backwash hose to drain their pool with a sand filter. We just had heavy rains so I am using a hose and submerisble pump to drain excess water. Is there anything similar to a backwash hose people use to drain pools with cartridge filters? Thanks!
Draining water from pool w/ cartridge filter
- Thread starter richierich
- Start date
- Jun 22, 2014
- 47,889
- Pool Size
- 17888
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
Us cart filter uses don't have the convenient MPV to help pump water to waste. Instead, we have to use a submersible as you are doing now. Or, some filter housings have a hose bib/spigot at the bottom that you can use as well.
- Jun 22, 2014
- 47,889
- Pool Size
- 17888
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
I suppose if you wanted to get creative, you could also remove a return jet fitting and fabricate various PVC fittings to a threaded adapter (much like an aerating fountain) to accommodate a garden hose and let it go out that way as well.
My cartridge filter has a 1½" threaded drain like your filter does. I plumbed a valve into that drain and use it to drain off some water whenever I need to. I have ours hard piped, but you could adapt a backwash hose to it if you wanted to.
thanks. I'm not handy enough to do a hose bib/spigot. Submersible pump it is! Thank you
