Cleaning a DE Filter

[Steve #1]

Observations and fallow up questions from my experience:

I came up with a more effective way to deal with the mosquitoes and put off cleaning the filter and jumped in the pool.

Based mainly on time considerations and the recommendations from the other thread, I used what worked out to be about a 15:1 water: acid ratio. As far as I can tell it got it nice and clean and everything went back together nice and easy.

Then, I started to clean up and realised I had a 25 gal. tub of diluted acid to deal with. Obviously it' a tad strong to just dump in the storm sewer. Not to mention the logistics of getting it to a sewer. Chemistry was never my strong suit(not to mention that my measuring was less than precise), so I decided to wing it and grabbed a box of baking soda (5 lb?), and one box later I was still getting enough of a reaction that I didn't even waste my time with a PH test. After a trip to Costco to pick up a 12 Lb bag of baking soda and using all of it I got the pH to 7.

So..... As I recal I should be left with a tub of salt water right? That I can safely dump?


Also I'm not exacly sure how much DE I should use. All the specifics are faded off the label. Maybe if I post a pic somebody could ID it for me