Hello welcome back to another poolside repair. I'm Rob.
I am Matt and today we are with Patrick over in Lake Mary Florida.
We're installing a DE filter to replace his old cartridge
Now, why do you want to move from cartridge over to DE?
I have an open pool. It’s not screened in.
I deal with a lot of leaves and nuts
and what not falling out of the cypress trees.
A lot of tannins that pool filters always is just covered in.
It's just brown all the time and I can't seem to get it clean.
I lose a lot of volume.I thought a DE might be an easier way to go.
Yes. The DE filter will filter down to three to five microns,
where as the cartridge filters 10 to 15 microns.
You're going to definitely catch the smaller debris.
Yes. DE in general is a great filter.
It's the best one in terms of filtering capacity.
You should be happy with the installations
as long as we do it right.
And also we're in Lake Mary, Florida but we're not in Manitoba.
Wherever – He’s from Canada. So if you hear an “Eh”-
Nova Scotia, eh.
It's in Nova Scotia. Alright.
Let's go. We'll take a look.
I’ll put that one in there for you.
Let's go take a look at the equipment.
We have a Jandy CS100.
It's a hundred square foot cartridge filter
and we're going to replace it with a DE 6020 for better filtration.
It's going to be a little bit more difficult
because this is obviously a single cartridge system
and we're going to go up to a big DE filter.
That’s going to be quite a size difference.
Yes. We're going to have to figure out pipe placement.
How we're going to maneuver and fit on to this pad.
It's probably only two by two and it's overwhelming
or if this cartridge filter's the right size for that two by two
but we got to figure out how DE 6020's going to fit on it.
Let's get to it. Alright.
Let's get this started.
Matt, pop quiz; what should we do first?
Okay. After a couple of [unintelligible 00:02:09]
Yes of course. It's a given.
Let's say turn off the power.
Alright. We'll turn off the pump.
Yes. We'll turn off the pump. It comes off.
That's not what breaker sound like. I know that for a fact.
Then after that what will we do?
There's probably some water in the pipe.
We got to get rid of that. Use the air relief.
Yes. There you go.
Or filter.
We got the water drained out of the system.
I don't know, what are we going to do next.
Cut it.
We're going to make a couple of cuts.
We're going to cut the intake,
discharge and then we'll just unthread the waistline
and get rid of that and then we'll remove the filter.
Let's start with the intake.
I'm going to cut as close as possible.
We have pipe to work with.
We made our cuts, we're going to slide the filter out.
This one doesn’t seem to be budging.
Maybe it's screwed in.
Oh yes.
This one's bolted into the pad so we're going to have to remove
a couple of bolts before we pull it out.
We've got the bolts removed.
Now we're just going to slide the filter out of this place.
Now that the old filter is gone
we have to make room for the new filter.
That means getting rid of all these rock and gravel.
Pretty simple, just going to use a shovel
and I'll put it off on the side.
We cut off the old filter, we cleared out the pad.
At this point we just got to get this big old filter at this box.
You want to do the honors?
Yes. Let's do it.
All right. Go for it.
You usually don't let me use knives.
Not since the accident.
Looks good.
Nice and brand new. Now we have a valve.
You want me to open that, too, while we're at it?
Nice 2-inch multiport valve.
715 XR50. Look at it shine.
Now, we're just going to roll this back onto the equipment pad
just to make sure -- Before we start gluing and anything else,
we'll make sure that it fits on the pad
and figure out how we're going to situate the pipes.
We're going to head over and do that now.
After we put on the valve, we figured out that the intake
in the return on this side
so we have to -- Nothing's ever easy when it comes to pools.
What are we going to do to try and get this installed correctly?
From the pump, we're going to bring it out here,
have an elbow, angle it upwards.
Another elbow here so they can go in to the intake.
We're going to take it from the return
and drop it down here and return it back to the pool
That was the simplest way of making sure
everything lines up right.
We had to rotate this pipe of the pump just to shoot it back.
That was easy.
Just loosening the union and rotating the pipe.
Without further ado, let's get the pipe.
All right. Let's do it.
Go ahead and thread our fittings into the valve.
We got some 2-inch nail pipe fitted threading.
Before we do,we're going to put some teflon tape around it
so that it's sealed properly when we thread it in.
Let's give it another quarter turn or so,
but you don't want to do it too tight
because then you'll break the valve.
We're going to measure the distance between these two elbows.
On the elbows, the pipe will go in an inch.
We're going to measure from that inch-point up to the elbow
and inch into the top elbow is nine and three quarters.
We're going to cut our pipe nine and three quarters.
Okay. Fun story. We put the pipe and everything.
We marked it up to see where the pipes are landing on each other.
Looks like we have a little bit of extra work to do.
Rob, do you want to explain what needs to be done?
Sure. Basically, if they ever had to remove this,
they'd have to cut a significant amount of pipe out
so we're just going to pick up a couple of unions so make it easier.
With the unions, you can just go and take the nut off
and remove it without having to cut pipe.
There you go.
It's not just about the installation now
and just getting it done, it's about making sure
that it's a good installation.
Something that’s not going to be annoying
for the homeowner going forward.
Off to the hardware store.
We just got back from the hardware store.
We picked up a couple unions that we can thread into our inlet
and return of the valve.
This way, in the future,the customer won't have to cut the plumbing
in order to remove the valve.
They can just remove the union.
Keep everything else plumbed in line.
We're going to start gluing.
We got our purple primer and our regular PVC cement.
First we're going to prime it and then we’ll glue it.
Right on the outside.
Around the inside of the engine.
Put something little on the outside here.
Screw on the inside here
and in there.
All right Rob, great job. You did a fantastic job.
Thank you.
I will take 5% of the work. What I was here for moral support.
Yes. That's what we need you for.
You did a fantastic job. Pretty much at this point.
What do you have to do?
After everything is pretty much plumbed in.
After everything is installed you'll kick the pump on.
First make sure there's no leaks in the system
and then you want to add DE to your skimmer.
The 6020 take 7 and a half pounds of DE.
That will be the last thing we have to do.
Just add some DE to the skimmer and call it a day.
Let's kick the tires and let the fires in.
All right. All right, go.
We're back here at Patrick's pool
about a month after we installed the DE filter
and we just wanted to follow up
and see how's everything's working for him.
It's been fantastic, Rob. I don't if it's a combination
of the larger volume or just the DE filtration itself
but the water flow’s amazing.
The pool's never been cleaner. I'm incredibly happy with it.
All right, great. That wraps up our DE filter install.
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