Pool Equipment

How to backwash and rinse your swimming pool

Backwashing and rinsing is an essential part of keeping your swimming pool sparkling clean. Do you know how to backwash and rinse your pool? Backwashing and rinsing of your pool’s filtration system should be performed once a week – but can be done more, or less, frequently depending on various factors. Here’s how to backwash.

Multiport Valve Explained

The selector options on MPV (Multi-port valve) of a swimming pool’s sand filter   The multiport valve is the main flow control valve on a swimming pool sand filter, the most used filtration system in South Africa. The MPV has 6 settings to direct the flow of water from the swimming pool through the pump and filter..

Why Change Your Pool Filter Sand?

The pool pump pulls dirty water to the filter, where it passes through the sand, where contaminants get trapped. The clean water flows back into the pool. How exactly does the sand hold onto the icky stuff, while allowing the cleaned water to pass through? Though it’s much too small to see with the naked.