Filter keeps clogging up??

[LIL_WILL]

not so much green as cloudish green... but i did notice i cant keep my cholrine up i just cleaned my filter and added the bleach...what is a good way to clean the filter ive been just rinse it off with garden hose...should i try a pressure washer??

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Not really green more of like a cloudish green...i cleaned the filter and added bleach and 15 mins later the filter was back up to 30 from like 15...could it be that im not cleaning the filter right...all im doing is spraying it with the garden hose..would a pressure washer be a better bet? Or could i just need to buy a new filter?

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Also there is like a brownish film that is on the top of the pool in the 2 corners and in the skimmer?

[aylad]

Pressure washer is not a good idea, from what I've read--garden hose is much better.

The green in the pool, as Pooldoc said above, is what's clogging up the filter, so you have to kill off the algae before you can get it filtered out. Algae and sunlight will both eat up chlorine, so it'll require multiple additions of bleach to keep your pool at shock level--problem is we won't know what your shock level is until you test for CYA. So...just to reiterate what Pooldoc said, get a good set of test results on your water (drop-based, please--no strips!!) and post those along with a list of what you've been putting in the pool, and we should be able to help you from there.

[PoolDoc]

I can't check on this now -- Hayward's website has crashed.

HOWEVER, in general, DE filters are plugged in minutes by live algae. To solve the problem, you need to kill the algae.

Also, I'm skeptical of your gallons figure: an EC-65 would be seriously undersized on a 28K gallon pool. It's very common for pool owners to have inflated estimates of their pool volumes, often because of misleading sales information. What are the actual DIMENSIONS of your pool?

[LIL_WILL]

16ftx 33ft goes from 3ft to 10ft...the only reason im saying 28k cuz the lady and the pool store had the old owners info stored in the computer so..idk..the filter does like kinda old idk..i will be buy a hth test kit tom.

[PoolDoc]

16 x 33 oval (?)

=> ((8^2)*pi* + 17 * 16) * 2.7 * 7.48 = shallow volume => 9,500 gallons
=> ((8^2)*pi* + 17 * 16)/2 * (9.7-2.7)/2 * 7.48 = deep volume => 6,200 gallons (assumes break at 1/2 length of pool)

Total estimated volume ~ 15,700 gallons. PF:7.5

A Perflex EC65 *is* big enough for a 15.7K gallon pool.

[LIL_WILL]

rectangle pool

[PoolDoc]

Liner pool, or concrete? (I've never heard of a 16x33 rectangle liner).

Anyhow:

=> (33 * 16) * 2.7 * 7.48 = shallow volume => 10,600 gallons
=> (16.5 * 16) * (9.7-2.7)/2 * 7.48 = deep volume => 6,900 gallons (assumes break at 1/2 length of pool)

Total estimated volume ~ 17,500 gallons. PF:7

A Perflex EC65 *is* acceptable for a 17.5K gallon pool.

[LIL_WILL]

Its a liner pool maybe im measuring it wrong