![]() ![]() ![]() on you or maybe enough time, you can agitate the handle, and it stirs the powder up, and it buys you a few days or even a few weeks until you can get back and take it apart.”Īnyone in the service business is familiar with the standard sources of filter buildup, everything from bug bits to flocculated flotsam, but there are a couple of new cloggers on the sand beds/cartridge elements/D.E. So if you show up and the filter’s dirty and you don’t have any D.E. “There’s a little handle to make it easy to stir up the D.E. filters come equipped to make this a quick job, Tarricone says. (or “bump it” in the industry parlance,) you will expose unused, uncoated D.E. And if you simply stir up used, dirt-coated D.E. under a microscope, its structure has a lot of tiny facets. is actually quite accommodating in this one aspect: Given all that, it’s no surprise that sometimes service pros find perfectly valid reasons to put off a D.E. filters are the worst cleaning job to deal with.” This is why, in my opinion, between the dirt, the DE, and the grease from the tank, D.E. “And as you’re struggling with it, trying to get that lid down, you’re leaning up against the tank and you’re getting O-ring grease all over yourself. “Sometimes it goes right in and other times you’re messing with it for five or 10 minutes to get all the grids lined up properly. Reassembling the grids into the manifold, lining them up under the slotted holding wheel and wiggling everything in together can go easy or hard, depending on the day, MacDowell says. There may be an eternal white substance sprinkled over the garden, but the fabric is clean.Īlmost done? Actually, the worst may be yet to come. So you’ve got the grids out and you’ve managed to get them rinsed off. ![]() You do have the option to take the grids out individually, MacDowell adds, but that takes longer. “Sometimes when I’m talking to builders I’ll say, “You hate service people, don’t you…what were you thinking when you built that equipment pad?” ![]() There’s an enclosure built above it and as you try to get the grids out, you’re bumping up against that.” “For some reason,” MacDowell says, “the builder sometimes leaves you very little space, either to get to the filter tank, or space above it so you can lift the grids out. Other strange impediments include the occasional squeaky-tight equipment pad. The old pool guys might build a step stool or something to climb up to it. “Down here, awhile ago, they had a code that in certain neighborhoods, the equipment had to be three feet off the ground. Local codes have added a special twist to this exercise for Tarricone. Try it sometime with a 40-pound bag of rock salt see how many times you can do it before they put you in traction. Which isn’t too bad, but consider that you’re leaning out over a cylindrical tank and pulling that 40-pounds straight up from the belt buckle. and everything dripping wet, you’re looking at roughly 40 pounds. And with eight grids in the manifold, a through-rod holding them all together, the weight of the D.E. filter tanks can be three and a half feet tall that’s belly button height on your shorter service tech. The job is to simply pop the lid off the tank and pull the D.E. Grid removal sounds a lot easier that it actually is. mixture all over yourself and the petunia beds. grids out of the tank before you can spray the water/D.E. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |