Not really. This one has the push-pull valve and with backwash you almost have to guess. It leaks at that valve as well and I was told that these all seem to leak. Or that was what the pool installers told me at that time. It took forever for them to get a part needed and that part wasn't the right one and they had to get another part and try again and finally it fit. I am currently doing the conversion to bleach from Baquacil so i will need to replace the sand anyhow.