Have a good sprayer that isn t too hard to trigger so your hand doesn t get tired.
Cleaning de pool filter fingers.
The best thing to clean the fingers and grids with is high pressure from your garden hose.
Place the pool filter valve in the backwash position then start your pool pump.
Clean your hayward pool filter thoroughly with a commercial cleaner degreaser before submerging it in acid.
Always wear rubber gloves and eye protection while working with muriatic acid.
But the beauty of most de filters is that you can get the old earth out without disassembling them.
You can disassemble your filter and use a garden hose to clean off the de and rinse the filter housing.
Add 1 cup of liquid dish soap per 5 gallons of water.
Backwashing will clear out all the dirt and debris inside your de filter.
When the water coming out of your discharge hose is clear shut off the pump and return the valve to its normal position.
This is the key to cleaning your de filter grids and fingers.
Pool lubricants and some gel type pool clarifiers can add oils to your pool which eventually is trapped in the filter grids.
Fill a bucket deep enough to submerge the pool filter cartridge in warm water.
Using a degreaser like tsp or our de filter cleaner product soaking to remove oils is a good treatment every year or two to remove de grid fabric clogging oils.
That is the most thorough way to clean a de filter.
As you spray off your de filters the run off needs to go somewhere.
Backwashing cleaning the manifold and grid and adding new de.
Hayward offers a wide variety of pool care products and filters for home use.
Step 2 submerge the dirty pool filter cartridge in the soapy water.
Backwashing is just a fancy way of saying get the old de out of the filter.
The first step in cleaning your de is to backwash.