I had a brilliant German guy who designed my pool, but halfway through the installation he did a runner from the island never to be seen again. He installed a Diatomaceous Earth filter, which never seems to have worked properly, and my water is quite often cloudy.
I've had a couple of local pool technicians look at the pool, but they have never heard of D E filters before, and just say that I need to replace it with a sand filter. With my filter, you're supposed to add the D.E. into the baskets and this is supposed to be sucked into the filter and should stick to it. We have tried to do this several times but each time a lot of the D.E. comes out in the injectors, not a lot seems to stick to the filter, and we end up with a very murky pool. I bought the D.E. itself locally, it came in an unmarked bag, and I am even wondering whether it was actually D.E. and not something else that I was supplied (!). I've tried ordering D.E. online from the US, but it's evidently difficult to ship because of customs regs.
I'm happy to just take out the D.E. filter, accept defeat and change for a sand one, but I have read that D E filters are supposed to be better than sand ones, so I'm just wondering whether there is anyone on here who knows about these filters. I need advice, and ideally someone to come over and have a look. I'm happy to pay, the main thing is I need someone who knows what they're talking about. I'm in the Colonial Zone in Santo Domingo.
I've had a couple of local pool technicians look at the pool, but they have never heard of D E filters before, and just say that I need to replace it with a sand filter. With my filter, you're supposed to add the D.E. into the baskets and this is supposed to be sucked into the filter and should stick to it. We have tried to do this several times but each time a lot of the D.E. comes out in the injectors, not a lot seems to stick to the filter, and we end up with a very murky pool. I bought the D.E. itself locally, it came in an unmarked bag, and I am even wondering whether it was actually D.E. and not something else that I was supplied (!). I've tried ordering D.E. online from the US, but it's evidently difficult to ship because of customs regs.
I'm happy to just take out the D.E. filter, accept defeat and change for a sand one, but I have read that D E filters are supposed to be better than sand ones, so I'm just wondering whether there is anyone on here who knows about these filters. I need advice, and ideally someone to come over and have a look. I'm happy to pay, the main thing is I need someone who knows what they're talking about. I'm in the Colonial Zone in Santo Domingo.