No big surprise that the warranty company denied the claim for the filter stuff. I let the company know how unhappy I was with the pool man's method! But I asked them not to chew him out until AFTER he redoes the plumbing on our pump, which is leaking, and IS covered. (go figure)

Our D.E. filter is working! We are so excited. We have discovered now that the filter gasket is wonkus inside the valve. I vacuumed the rest of the D.E. that accumulated into piles in the pool and then when I turned the pump off and turned the valve to filter, it was still sucking water into the waste drain. It's loud, and it's a good thing or I might not have noticed all the water I just paid to put in the darn thing sucking away! So I turned the pump off, went around another turn to filter and this time it went where it was supposed to. At some brave moment, hubby and I will gather our courage to break into the valve and replace the gasket. We are NOT handy, so these things are huge to us.

We cancelled our pool school though--we have learned through our hard knocks this past couple of weeks. So I figure we got out as cheaply as we could.

Now if only there was a plumbing forum that would help me remodel my bathroom!!!!

K