Your cartridge or sand filter requires regular sanitising in order to maintain safe and healthy water. Follow these steps to sanitise both filter types, using BioGuard Filter Brite.
With the filter being such an important part of your pool system, it also will require regular cleaning.
By using Filter Brite will sanitise, remove grease, scale and rust deposits in your filter promoting much higher efficiency. This in turn promotes cleaner, healthier water.
For a Cartridge Filter:
To clean a cartridge filter, the first think we do is we remove the cartridge from the filter, then rinse off any debris.
Using a plastic bucket big enough to fit the cartridge (or at least half of it so you can flip over and do the other end later). Fill bucket/container with water and add one sachet of Filter Brite then insert the cartridge.
Allow to stand overnight if possible, otherwise for as long as possible. *the longer you leave it the more effective the clean.
Remove the cartridge from the bucket/container and rinse off the cartridge with clean water
Return the cartridge to the filter & replace the lid, making sure your o’rings are in place correctly.
Turn your pump on and bleed the air from the top until water come out! Turn you pool to automatic an you’re done!
For a Sand or media filter:
Dissolve one sachet of Filter Brite into a bucket with 2 litres of clean water, mixing with a stick if required.
Turn your pump off & remove the pump basket lid.
Pour this solution carefully into the pump basket.
With the pump basket still removed, turn the pool pump back ON until the solution is ‘sucked through’ then turn the pump OFF again (This should only take a few seconds)
Put the pump basket lid back on and leave the system OFF for at least 6 hours or preferably overnight.
Finally, backwash and rinse your filter as normal *see the below steps for this process.
Turn the pump off,
Change the valve handle from filter onto BACKWASH,
Open any valves on the waste line,
Disconnect any suction cleaners & vacuum plates,
Then turn the pump back on for 30-40 seconds or when the sight glass is clear,
Turn the pump off,
Turn the filter handle to RINSE,
Turn the pump on for 20 -30 seconds to resettle the sand,
Turn the pump off again,
Return the multiport valve to FILTER,
Reconnect the cleaner and
Turn the pump back on (or set the timer to auto).
Your filter is now clean and a lot of the nasties are removed from your filter, ready for another few months of highly efficient filtration.
Watch the video tutorial on using Filter Brite below
Contact us to have one of our team come and give your filter a clean or pop into our store to pick up your packet of Filter Brite to clean your filters today!