09-09-2007, 10:44 AM
No problem, and we hope to be a neighbor soon!
If you can take a pic of it up close, the pipes going in and out of it, I can help you clean it.
Ours has a twist, turn, then pull up lever near the bottom on the pipe running out of it. You hook a pool hose onto it to run anywhere you want and then just turn on, it flushes all the nasty DE out. Just run til clean. Then you just poor new DE into wherever the input valve is. Ours uses about 5 small coffee cans of DE.
Once a year we open up the valve without power and just let it drain. Then unsrcew the screws take the top off, take the permanent filter out and wash down good.
Put the whole thing back together, turn on the power and bleed out the air at the top where the pressure guage is.
Pretty simple really.
If you can take a pic of it up close, the pipes going in and out of it, I can help you clean it.
Ours has a twist, turn, then pull up lever near the bottom on the pipe running out of it. You hook a pool hose onto it to run anywhere you want and then just turn on, it flushes all the nasty DE out. Just run til clean. Then you just poor new DE into wherever the input valve is. Ours uses about 5 small coffee cans of DE.
Once a year we open up the valve without power and just let it drain. Then unsrcew the screws take the top off, take the permanent filter out and wash down good.
Put the whole thing back together, turn on the power and bleed out the air at the top where the pressure guage is.
Pretty simple really.