#PoolGuys - How to Backwash a Filter

hey guys Justin here with americanmuscle.com it's always important because it helps as far as several different things as far as your pulls to your pump and filter I'm out here with John one of our good service techs and we're going to walk you through a lot of the things why it's important why we need to do it all so the key paint is what to look for John take it over but first of all why is important this is a lot of ways this is the center of your pool system this is responsible for keeping your water clean and a lot of different variables and ways this particular want to be eat filters and it has to be maintained properly for your pool to stay healthy and clean and enjoyable now one of the first indications that needs to be backwashed this goes for any filter is you'll notice that the minutes flow coming from your return if you ever noticed that immediately come to your filter and look at your pressure gauge this one is sitting at about 30 pounds of pressure that's usually too much for I know perfect so much for ellipses so we're going to go ahead and backwash it so we're going to see we can't drop that pressure down first step you want to find out how to turn off your pump this one nicely labeled pump right here for this breaker turned off this should be in the filter position most points in the backwash why John why must we always turn off the breaker in the power first that's a very good question Justin if you were to leave this pump running and then alter or move around this multi-port you would very well tear up the insides of it would need to be replaced so always make sure you turn off the power care pump before you switch this valve any other position now when I'm backwash we're going to as turn the pump back on here now is John's doing this we are back washing the system completely so it's basically cleaning out the filter all the nasty debris and things that is inside this filter because your pool like you said is collecting all the dirt debris the hair the oils so the filter is now being cleaned itself so we'll do that now John time 1 what do you do a good indication to clean what do we look at sight glass or what do we look for things your lower is most most pumps and filter systems have a sight glass this particular model does not I'm actually looking at the water that's coming out of the back box wine it looks like it's getting pretty clean so we'll go ahead and act like that's good we're going to switch from backwash over to rinse that's going to get anything that's left over and your system out of this filter all the way out so as we go back into your pool so far as how long tobacco wash for most models have something called a sight glass that you can actually observe with the color and with the look of the water is is it's exiting the filter this particular model does not have one I've simply used the water coming out of the backwash line over there to judge how dirtier / clean it is but if you can't see where your backwash waters come out of and for some reason you do not have a sight glass a good rule of thumb is the backlash for about a minute and then usually to rinse maybe 20 seconds 15 seconds usually always quite a bit less than however long you back washed generally speaking the rinse cycle will always last quite a bit shorter from the backwash that should be good and we'll go ahead and switch her back to filter mode that's the normal operating setting now you don't care meet us over at the skimmer because like John said this is a de filter we must put diatomaceous earth and that's what the e stands for diatomaceous earth we must put that back into the filter to make this work as optimal position so we backwash the system in this specific system with de we need to make sure we put the proper elements and de powder inside the skimmer so John's going to show you how that's properly done well move a skimmer lid we'll get your skimmer basket out of the way let's barley you need to have you go drink or scooper yes this is designed to have the correct volume to make it easier to measure the amounts you need since we're only back washing and not recharging this filter a little over three scoops how to do the job give me one good scoop [Applause] pour it in the skimmer while you're in this bag in your next scoop ready during that time most that ve should have already sucking on through the drain very for your second scoop third and then just a little bit extra maybe half a cup maybe not quite that much then you want to clean all the de that's sticking to the sides in here I always like to get everything that's spilled off the side on the outside as well you don't get to very wet that's essentially it this pool has been successfully backwash place components and you're good to go so now that you've successfully learned how to backwash the system we're finished here but stay tuned every Wednesday to our hashtag pool guys

Channel: American Pool and Spa KY

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Keywords: pools, spas, pool care, pool cleaning, pool maintenance, #poolguys, bioguard, pool chemicals, swimming pool water, water, swimming

Id: RD9h-V_WsA8

Length: 5min 58sec (358 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 13 2017