Comments on: How To Clean Any D.E. Pool Filter

By: th8 farming base ash

th8 farming base ash — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:45:12 +0000

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By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:15:33 +0000

Fill the tank with water before putting the finger plate back will keep it from sagging

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:50:32 +0000

In reply to Doug. you either have a rip in the grids or you put the grids back wrong same thing happened to me.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:24:45 +0000

We have a inground pool. We have taken the filter (de) apart and cleaned the filters. This filter has about 30 screws to take apart , then get the top off and get the filters out. This was ajob from H—. Anyway the problem is now to get it back together.

The big problem is , how do we get the rubber seal to stay on the groove, which is not much of a groove while we get the top back on which is heavy and big? I was thinking of using glue to keep it in place. I’m sure that is a bad idea. PLEASE HELP!
Thanks, Linda

By: shari

shari — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:59:40 +0000

I have a de filter for inground pool. I have had to clean it 4 times in 2 days! It get very caked with de and algae. Just opened the pool recently and working on getting it clean. The filter and pool itself though seem to be working fine except the water for the water slide starts off fine but then tapers off. I can’t figure out why the grids are getting so dirty so fast! I vacuum on waste. Help! Getting tired of taking the filter apart all the time!

By: REG G

REG G — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:40:20 +0000

We have a few tears in the fingers. Can they be sewed up or patched instead of replacing? If so, any special type of thread or material? Also, any thoughts why I got these tears (in 6 out of 8 2-year-old fingers)? Am I not using enough DE? Thanks.

By: Michael Jones

Michael Jones — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:43:57 +0000

Just cleaned de filter and replaced earth now I have extreme suction with my vacume as well as the pool jets are 10x’s stronger than before. Is this normal?

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:22:31 +0000

I JUST GOT MY POOL INSTALLED AND RUNNING. WHEN I PUT THE D.E. IN THE FIRST TIME THE PUMP RAN FINE I THEN VACUUMED A LOT OF SAND FROM THE BOTTOM. I THEN CLEANED THE FILTER BY TAKING IT ALL APART, PUT IT ALL BACK TO GATHER PUT IN THE PROPER D.E. AND AM NOW GETTING THE D.E. PUMPING BACK INTO THE POOL. WHAT DO I DO?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:09:25 +0000

Hello, I have a Pentair DE Filter model FNS48 that is about 6 years old. The cloth on the grids look great but the tubes at the top of each grid which are slotted to fit into the top assembly have at least two of the 4 tabs broken off. To replace all of the grids is expensive, will the filter work with half the tabs broken off on each grid or is there any kind of patch repair?

By: BETH

BETH — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:15:18 +0000

DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE GRIDS ASSEMBLY COMPLETELY OUT OF THE FILTER TANK. OR CAN YOU LEAVE ASSEMBLED AND JUST HOSE OFF UNTIL CLEAN? IN GROUND PENTAIR d.e FILTER