These things are great, especially during high pollen season. They go over your skimmer baskets and filter out a bunch of small stuff before it gets in your filter. Probably saved me 3 backwashes so far this year. Highly recommend.
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These things are great, especially during high pollen season. They go over your skimmer baskets and filter out a bunch of small stuff before it gets in your filter. Probably saved me 3 backwashes so far this year. Highly recommend.
Esloser
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Hairnets from Amazon. You can get 100 for about $6. They do the same thing and you don’t feel bad throwing them out every other day. It’s what I use during pollen season. Although, I don’t know how much you spent on the product there.
Disposable Hair Net, Spun-Bonded Polypropylene, White, 100 per Bag https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002XK2FS0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QyPeBb2S3KQCB
Disposable Hair Net, Spun-Bonded Polypropylene, White, 100 per Bag https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002XK2FS0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QyPeBb2S3KQCB
Good tip. These are about $2 each sock. They say to change once a week, but I’ve gone 3 weeks so far with no issue.
Mendy48
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I used to use that New, but OMG, the stuff that came out of my skimmer was so gross that I didn't feel like cleaning out the socks every time. So I got hairnets (100 for $5 to $6 ). I've been using these hairnets for a while and they are great. I'll highly recommend hairnets. However, if you want to use the socks then all is good. They work good, I just couldn't reuse the socks at all. I get grossed out easily.
Haha. I kinda like cleaning them out and seeing all the junk that was saved from the filter, if that doesn’t sound weird...
ditto x 100...best deal going...plug n'play and you're done...I've given these to friends to try and every one of them use them now....
W as fast as we are buying these, I hope there's not a lot of hair in food that shouldn't be
ditto x 100...best deal going...plug n'play and you're done...I've given these to friends to try and every one of them use them now....
W as fast as we are buying these, I hope there's not a lot of hair in food that shouldn't be
I have been using the hairnets also and they work great! And so inexpensive! A great way to economize with DE changes during pollen and tree flowering season.
Esloser
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ditto x 100...best deal going...plug n'play and you're done...I've given these to friends to try and every one of them use them now....
W as fast as we are buying these, I hope there's not a lot of hair in food that shouldn't be
I’m still using the same package that I bought last year. I suspect these will last another year before I have to buy another 100.
Mendy48
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So much surface debris gets into my pool that I swap out skimmer socks two or three times a day. I have a few clean ones left, after that I'll try the hair nets which I ordered a couple weeks ago.
I just wish the hairnets were biodegradable
Maddie
I did not know they were not. Too bad. Maybe there isn’t a material that is both strong enough and biodegradeable?
I just wish the hairnets were biodegradable
Maddie
Maddie, after you pull out the hairnets [w all the junk in them], just cut off the rubber band part, then put them on top of the soil and sprinkle some cottonseed meal on them, then water them down enough to get them wet...then watch after 10-14 days. Cottonseed meal is a by product of cotton production and is an excellent source of breaking down almost any matter into nitrogen.
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