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What is the Best Type of Pool Filter

Okay so the question today is a good one. What is the best type of pool filter? And so I’m going to go through it very quickly because I’ve got a lot to do today and I’ve got to make this video quick.
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Four Types

So there are four types of pooL filters.Four basic types of pool filters. You’ve got your sand filter. Then there is your cartridge filter. You’ve got your de filter which stands for diatomaceous earth and you’ve got your glass filter.

The Choice

The sand filter is a is a filter that uses literal sand media inside the filter. The sand itself physically filters the stuff out of the water. A cartridge filter uses a cartridge that looks a lot like a air filter in your car. This filters the water out in your pool. It looks a lot like that but instead of filtering the air it’s filtering the water. It’s physically grabbing stuff that’s passing through it. You’ve got the de filter which uses a white powder called diatomaceous earth. This you put into the skimmer and it basically coats these grids that are inside the filter. That physically filters the water as it passes through. And then you’ve got the glass filter which is essentially a sand filter body. It uses glass media inside the sand filter to filter a lot better than the sand does.

Glass Media

Its important to note that there are different types of glass and different grades of glass. We only use the three-stage glass media just because it performs so much better. It’s a little bit more expensive but not much more expensive at all than other glass media out there. But it’s just a significantly better. So once again this is my opinion. If you ask a hundred Pugh professionals you’ll get a hundred different answers. But my opinion is is that the glass filters are just a lot better than the other filters. The glass filter allows you to get the low micron filtration that’s available through the de filter but the de filters are expensive and they’re difficult to operate and they’re prone to breakage.

The Glass Filter

All the parts inside of them are prone to breaking and when they break it’s expensive to fix them. The glass filter brings together the excellent filtration properties of the de filter with the ease of use of a sand filter and that’s why I love the glass filters the most. The glass media lasts forever, I mean around you know eight to ten years you can get out of your glass media which to me is is a great thing. And the cost of the glass filter even with the upgraded three-stage media is still probably going to be a lot less, several hundred dollars less than a de filter, so to me a glass filter is the way to go. This is the Best Type of Pool Filter.

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Today we’re going to show you how to drain water out of your swimming pool with the various types of filters. For those of you that have a cartridge filter and you want to drain water out of your swimming pool there are two ways to do that.

First way would be to shut off the pump,and then go to the back of the filter and unscrew the drain plug. Turn the pump back on, let the water run until it reaches the point where you want to drain the water out. Turn the pump back off and put the plug back into the drain plug. Your pump is ready to go! The second way to drain water out of the swimming pool is if your system is plumbed in with a valve in between the pump and the filter. What you are going to do is shut the pump off, rotate the valve so that it blocks the water going to the filter. Then turn the pump on and then water will come out. Drain the water that you need to out of the swimming pool. When you get to the point where you’ve taken out enough water, turn the pump off and then make sure that you turn the 3-way valve back to the regular position so that water can pass from the pump into the filter.

If you have a sand filter these are the steps that you need to take to drain the water out of your swimming pool. The first step is to turn the pump off. Second step is we’re going to roll out our backwash hose in to the yard. Now we’re going to take the multi port valve that’s on top of the sand filter (sometimes it may be on the side) and rotate it in a clockwise direction to “Waste. “Then we’re going to turn the pump back on. After you get the amount of water out of your swimming pool you’re going to turn the pump back off. and then rotate the multi port valve from the “Waste” position in a clockwise direction, all the way back to “Filter”. Go ahead and pick the backwash hose up to help drain all the water out of the hose so when you roll it up it doesn’t have any water in it. If you have a D. E. filter and you want to take water out of your swimming pool, manually shut the pump off at the breaker box. We’re going to take the multi port valve and turn it in a clockwise direction until you get to “Waste”. Turn the pump back on. “click” When you’ve taken enough water out of the swimming pool manually turn the pump off,walk back over to the multi port valve and rotate the handle in a clockwise direction until you get back to “Filter. “Then at that point you can turn the pump back on. If you have any other questions, please call your neighborhood Pinch A Penny for any additional help that you may need.