Cleaning De Pool Filter Fingers

Cleaning your de filter involves three basic steps.

Cleaning de pool filter fingers.

That is the most thorough way to clean a de filter. You can disassemble your filter and use a garden hose to clean off the de and rinse the filter housing. Backwashing will clear out all the dirt and debris inside your de filter. Backwashing cleaning the manifold and grid and adding new de.

Fill a bucket deep enough to submerge the pool filter cartridge in warm water. But the beauty of most de filters is that you can get the old earth out without disassembling them. In most cases it can be good fertilizer for your lawn or garden. Place the pool filter valve in the backwash position then start your pool pump.

As you spray off your de filters the run off needs to go somewhere. Clean your hayward pool filter thoroughly with a commercial cleaner degreaser before submerging it in acid. 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. Step 2 submerge the dirty pool filter cartridge in the soapy water.

When the water coming out of your discharge hose is clear shut off the pump and return the valve to its normal position. If you have a local pool store nearby you can also pick up some filter grid cleanser that will also help you clean the grids and fingers even better. The best thing to clean the fingers and grids with is high pressure from your garden hose. Backwashing is just a fancy way of saying get the old de out of the filter.

Pool lubricants and some gel type pool clarifiers can add oils to your pool which eventually is trapped in the filter grids. Add 1 cup of liquid dish soap per 5 gallons of water. The first step in cleaning your de is to backwash. Hayward offers a wide variety of pool care products and filters for home use.