When it comes to the maintenance of your pool, and the quality of your pool water, the hardest working piece of equipment is your pool filter. Pool filtration units are definitely products that should be well researched prior to a purchase, as they work so hard and generally run 24 hours a day. There are three types of swimming pool filters on the market:
-Sand
-Cartridge
-Diatomaceous Earth (DE)
Naturally having a variety of pool filter technologies on the market leads to many consumer questions, and confusion. This Article has the goal of helping you make an educated purchase. Firstly regardless of what people say any type of Filter can be used to properly maintain your pool, however the quality of the actual filtering results will vary.
Sand – Sand filtration involves a high performance water pump pushing water through a bed of sand through a set of lateral tubes. As a separate pump is used to push the water through the filter, the filter area is the same area as the filter. A 24 inch filter will have a 3.14 sq ft filter area. In sand filtration units only the top inch of sand is actually effective for filtering. Sand filtration...