Pool Filter - Cartridge vs Sand

[kb7722]

Anybody have any experience with the two? Have a 30,000 gal pool with a busted 24" sand filter and am considering going to a cartridge filter. Pros & Cons?

[Buckwabit]

Keep the sand filter. You will be just like me...so tired of buying cartridges i could puke. Every time it rain my PH get out of wack and my filter turns green and the pump won't pump through it. You can bak wash it all you want but it doesn't help

[SCOOTER]

sand

[regishay]

sand, I dont have any filter issues other than backwash ocassionally.

[Buckwabit]

Cartridge.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[orange68]

A buddy of mine has a big sand filter for sale, he went to salt and swears by it, cost and maintenance both

[kb7722]

Sticking with sand. Thanks for the help!

[donia]

A buddy of mine has a big sand filter for sale, he went to salt and swears by it, cost and maintenance both

we got a swg (salt water generator) when we put pool in and agree on cost savings and maintenance...with chemicals. just having to buy our first replacement cell, so it is our first big expense on it (other than $6 bags of salt periodically) in 7 yrs. i'm sure we would've used well over $500 in chems over that time, though!

is the "..went to salt and swears by it" statement just an afterthought to "...sand filter for sale" statement? i use a sand filter and swg for chlorine production, salt doesn't mean you don't use a filter...just curious.

[kb7722]

A buddy of mine has a big sand filter for sale, he went to salt and swears by it, cost and maintenance both

we got a swg (salt water generator) when we put pool in and agree on cost savings and maintenance...with chemicals. just having to buy our first replacement cell, so it is our first big expense on it (other than $6 bags of salt periodically) in 7 yrs. i'm sure we would've used well over $500 in chems over that time, though!

is the "..went to salt and swears by it" statement just an afterthought to "...sand filter for sale" statement? i use a sand filter and swg for chlorine production, salt doesn't mean you don't use a filter...just curious.

You can spend $500 on chemicals in one summer.

[ducman77]

Stick with the sand.

[orange68]

Naw its not just to sale it, he has a 24' above ground and he bout the whole system to convert it over to salt for around 200 and he doesnt use ghe sand filter any longer.

[donia]

i see, he just bought the entire system (pump, filter, swg) lock, stock, and barrell...and is selling his current sand filter separately.

[Deltaquack]

A buddy of mine has a big sand filter for sale, he went to salt and swears by it, cost and maintenance both

we got a swg (salt water generator) when we put pool in and agree on cost savings and maintenance...with chemicals. just having to buy our first replacement cell, so it is our first big expense on it (other than $6 bags of salt periodically) in 7 yrs. i'm sure we would've used well over $500 in chems over that time, though!

is the "..went to salt and swears by it" statement just an afterthought to "...sand filter for sale" statement? i use a sand filter and swg for chlorine production, salt doesn't mean you don't use a filter...just curious.

I was thinking the same thing......you still need a filter.

As for salt, you still have to use chemicals from time to time. I have a salt water pool and still have to add muriatic acid and Chlorine Shock to it. In certain parts of the country there's a big advantage to salt water. It's not as big of a difference around the delta.

[donia]

^^ water is silky and doesn't burn your eyes or have the chlorine smell left in trunks/towels.

stabilizer (cyanuric acid) once a year and generic liquid bleach for shock...we don't have a heavy kid load in our ool (no P to deplete chlorine as quickly).