Simple Pool and Spa Repair

AllPartsPoolandSpa.com is having a big sale on all cartridge filters. The sale is for a limited time. This is a good time to purchase your filters for the up and coming pool season.

Use the handy Filter Finder to locate your filter or scroll through the pictures under replacement cartridge filters to find your filters.

Many people use their spas more during the cooler weather. For your safety and the best spa efficiency, you should make sure you have a good filter.

With the sale going on now, you can afford to buy the alternate set of  filters you should have to make your life easier and your spa the safe.

As I have said before: “It is a good idea to have 2 cartridges for your filter so that they can be rotated. Two filters comes in handy when the family wants to use the pool or hot tub and the filter needs to be cleaned. Just pop in the clean filter and the family can swim in the pool or soak in the hot tub, while you work without interference. ( Or jump in and enjoy with the family and clean the filter later. Just remember to clean the filter!)”

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This is the time of year when you should be thinkiung about getting you pool equipment ready for the summer months. Summer will be here before you know it. Things are not so hectic the time of year. The holidays are past and the play season hasn’t started. Use the time to replace any broken parts on your sand filter and change the sand in the filter.

For the man who thinks he has everything, here is one more item to add to the list. And it is useful too! A sand filter sand vac for removing the sand sounds silly, but when you use it, you will love it.

The sand in your sand filter should be changed at least every three years. Changing it every year is even better.  One of the main reasons for not changing the sand is that it is a back breaking  job. It is messy. It is time consuming. and in general it is no fun!

The sand filter vac attaches to a garden hose and allows you to remove the sand from the sand filter easily. There is less chance of breaking the sand filter laterals. It is easier to maneuver in the small opening.

Finding your proper filter for your hot tub doesn’t  have to be a problem. With just a few bits of information you can use the form that comes up when you go to cartridge filters on the AllPartsPoolandSpa.com website. Start with the diameter if you know it and proceed from there adding addition pieces of information until you find the correct filter. Then double check your choice by looking at its picture.

Several people have asked what a DE filter is.  A DE filter is considered by many professionals in the pool industry to be the best filters available because it is capable of removing very small particles.

Diatomaceous earth is a porous powder with microscopic openings. These particles look like small sponges when magnified. Clean water passes through the openings and particles as small as 5 micron are trapped in the media.

A DE filter has internal elements or grids that are coated with the diatomaceous earth which filters our dirt, dust algae and because of the posre size some forms of bacteria.

When DE filters become dirty, the same as a sand filter, they need to be cleaned either by backwashing or draining to waste and then regenerated with a fresh charge of DE media.

This video explains the use of the filter finder feature on AllPartsPoolandSpa.com

When it comes time to replace your existing spa or pool filter cartridge gather as much information as you can on your cartridge using the following steps to help you get the correct one.

1. Measure the outside diameter of the cartridge in inches to the nearest 1/16″.

2. Measure the overall length of the cartridge including the end caps in inches to the nearest 1/16″. Do not include any handles, strings, etc. The most accurate measurement will be if you can measure through the center of the cartridge.

3. If the top and or bottom are open measure this inside diameter to the nearest 1/16″. The picture below will help you match the end cap configurations.

End Cap Configurations

4. Make note of the manufacturer (OEM) and model number of the filter that you are replacing.

5. Take not if there is or isn’t a center core (PVC pipe in the center). And count the number of pleats.

Now use the information you have gathered to fill-in a webssite filter finder or filter search program.
Note: If you are having difficulty finding your filter, just putting in the diameter or the length and searching, will give you a long list of many filters fitting your one criteria and you can then choose what you need from the pictures and/or descriptions.

Pure ’N Clean is a filter cleaner that melts away calcium, dirt, and scale from your filter. It renews the cartridge and refreshes the efficiency and flow rate.

Some warning signs may be:

• The pressure gauge on your filter tank reaches 8psi above the new cartridge level (HINT – Mark your beginning pressure down after replacing your filter cartridge)
• OR when you notice a drop in pressure from your return jets.