Calling all pool experts...

[Code510]

Hey all,

I bought a house a few months back with a pool. Never owned a house with a pool before. It's been quite the learning experience. I'm determined to figure it all out by myself instead of paying for a weekly/monthly service.

While my chemicals have been in check, I can't seem to keep the damn thing clean. There's an excessive amount of dirt that settles/builds up on the bottom of it every week. WAY too much.

I don't know the terminology here, so bear with me...but it has the canister filter, with individual filters in there that are radius in shape. It does take the diatomaceous earth. I've taken the filters out, hosed them off, hosed out the canister, put in new DE, everything. But it's still pumping a lot of dirt back into the pool.

For example. This first shot, I turned on the filter, and swept this half of the pool, the shallow end. The filter ran for a few hours after this. I didn't sweep the deep end, as to not disturb that sediment.


Came back a few hours later, and this is how it looks:



Obviously, something is wrong with my filter. I'll have to take some pictures of that tonight. Anything popping out to anybody what might be wrong? All the wings of the filter looked like they were in great shape, no tears or rips.

Thanks for the help!