DE powder in pool

[waste]

Welcome to the Forum!

While I am loath to disagree with Janet, I believe that if you turn off the pump for ~ 12 hours, it will settle to the bottom and you can vacuum it into the filter (go VERY slowly with the vac, lest you stir the DE back into suspension!)

It will take a couple of days of doing this but, you won't need to buy a flocculent chem. If you need the pool clear for this weekend, use the floc to speed things up.

After it's all out, follow the directions in this thread to properly get back to the correct level of DE in your filter.

[aylad]

I believe that if you turn off the pump for ~ 12 hours, it will settle to the bottom and you can vacuum it into the filter (go VERY slowly with the vac, lest you stir the DE back into suspension!)

Hopefully, Waste is right on and it will happen for you. But if you go on 2 weeks, like I did, with no visible effects, then that's one of the only times I would ever recommend the clarifier....

Janet