December 30th, 2010
1 min read
By Jason Hughes
You know what one of my biggest pet peeves is? Floaties in my drink. And with five kids I know that if I give someone a sip, there’s going to be some backwash going on!
I can cope with giving up my ice cold soda, but there’s another type of backwashing that annoys pool owners on a weekly basis. You know what I’m talking about…sand filters. No, there’s nothing wrong with sand filters. Heck, I grew up on them. But geesh, it just seems like such a waste of resources. Let’s take a closer look.
Ok, so that ain't all that bad right?....I mean, if you have a pool at all your pretty dang lucky (in my book anyway). But what if there were a better system out there? Well, anyone who follows us at all knows we’re fans of cartridge filters.
The single biggest gripe we hear about cartridge filters is that they have to be cleaned too frequently. Well yeah…if the filter’s too small they do. The key is to oversize the filter, which means less frequent cleaning, plus the filters last longer that way (about one season). When you take this into consideration, sand simply doesn’t make sense…maybe I’m just confused, you tell me!
Either way one thing’s for sure, I may not be able to save the world from backwashing sand filters, but I can save my soda from the kids…just kidding, I share :)
What do you think? Still fighting for sand?
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