[geeks] argh

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:43:30AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> what do you do with the DE that gets pushed out from backwashing?  

I hook a hose to the "waste water" outlet and let it run out int the
street drain, or into a corner of the yard...

> do you need
> to pull your filter tank apart and clean DE gunk outta the screen-fins thing
> that holds the DE in place?

Should only have to do that once a year or so, if you're backwashing 
often enough - and we only backwash once a month or so.

Sounds like:

1.  Using too much DE and its clogging
and/or
2.  Filter/pump isnt adequate for pool size

Seriously, I have to stop the pump and clean the leaves out of the strainer
basket at the intake in the pool, more often than I have to touch the pump and
filter - and thats only maybe twice a week (we have a tree over the pool.
ugh.)  the last couple of times we backwashed, it was "eh, might as well
while we're working on it".

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX