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GoBlue:
I'm having the pool renovated and I'm looking on advice on a new filter. Sand vs cartridge vs de.  also advice on chlorine delivery methods.  Any pool forums as good as this one?

Thanx.

Pathfinder:
A lot depends on where you live  how accessible water is (city water or well) how big your pool is and frequency of use.  D E filters are expensive but work awesome   Sand filters are cheaper but if you are on water restrictions it will cost you with all the backwashing you have to do. You can also convert your sand filter to a glass media where you wont have to backwash as much.  Cartridge filters conserve water cost quite a bit you need to have spares on hand but I find are harder to bring your pool back once  
you have lost it.    I would recommend a salt generator by Jandy or Gold line(hayward)  There are even salt/ozone generators if you feel like being different.

Havent found a good pool forum yet

tony:
You can try poolforum.com.  Its a pretty active forum.  If you don't mind the strong opinions on how to handle your water chemistry, you can gain some good information there.

FWIW, I use a cartridge filter on my small (7000 gallon) AG pool and couldn't be more satisfied.  Being in the northeast, the pool is open only in season but I clean the filter when I close the pool, install it when I open and don't touch it till I close again.  My water is always crystal clear, not once has it been cloudy.  The filter is very large though and clean it by soaking overnight with a filter cleaning solution in a clean rubbish barrel and rinsing well.

Vinny:
I also have been on poolforum.com. Apparently the moderator/owner there hasn't been around for a long while and others have started up there own similar forum.

I bought a DE filter and I live in NJ. I did a lot of research and asked friends who owned pools and they all told me - get DE. I did and I think it's great. Apparently, there is no filter like a DE filter for really getting all the stuff out of the water.

It clears up the pool within 24 hours and the pool is always sparking when it's running right. I say this because I notice it will stop running correctly way before the pressure goes up the 5 or 10 PSI that the instructions say. But with that said it's just a routine that you need to change the DE on a regualar basis. I do it about once a month ... I opened it up this weekend and will replace the DE in June. This year I opened it up to cloudy water and I had to replace the DE after 24 hours. I have it down pat so it took me 15 minutes ... no big deal. But my pool is sparkling again.

As far as expensive, I think they are about the same price as a sand filter. They gave me a choice of either sand or DE when I bought the pool so I can't see them being much more expensive. I've read that if you go with a sand filter that you can use a cup of DE powder to ultra filter the water if need be.

As far as chlorine, on poolforum they say a lot of good things on SOME salt water generators. My pool is above ground and I asked about that and they said not to use them on an above ground pool ... will cause corrosion to the pool walls.

At this point I don't think you can register at poolforum but it's definately worth the effort to read the posts there. The owner ruled with an iron fist, he has people using household chemicals when available and the people there have a great understanding of pools. I've used a modified approach to their method ... I've used bleach, trichlor and cal hypo for chlorine as needed; I've used borax to raise PH and that's where I learned to use baking soda to raise alkalinity.

96SC:
At one time my parents had an AG pool and used DE for filtering and I never ever saw the water cloudy.  We, on the other hand, once had an AG pool with cartridge filtering and it was never ever clear.

My 2¢

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