| Owning a swimming pool is every home owner's | | | | water reaches the bottom of the filter tank it is |
| dream. In order to make your swim a pleasant | | | | let out through the laterals into the pool. |
| experience you have to make sure the water is | | | | Cartridge filters - These employ a paper-type |
| free from debris and fine particulates. There had | | | | cartridge inside a cylindrical tank. Unfiltered water |
| been an instance when a 5-year old drowned in a | | | | comes in through an inlet, which soaks through |
| Hotel pool in Omaha just because his mother | | | | the outside of the paper cartridge into its interior. |
| couldn't find her son in the murky water. Dirty | | | | Dirt and debris remains outside the cartridge and |
| pool water also causes a host of diseases and it | | | | clean filtered water inside the cartridge is let out in |
| is certainly a big turn off. | | | | to the pool through the outlet. These filters need |
| Pool filters are an indispensable part of any pool's | | | | to be cleaned once or twice a year. |
| operation. Quality pool filters like Sta-rite pool | | | | Diatomaceous Earth (DE) Filters - This type of |
| filters packs performance with durability and gives | | | | filter is basically a canister which has a network of |
| you a clean swimming pool. Choosing a new filter | | | | fingers or tubes and a lot of plates inside it. These |
| for your pool can be a daunting task. There are | | | | fingers and plates are coated with DE (a fine |
| so many types, sizes and capacities of pool filters. | | | | white powder of crushed sea fossils or diatoms) |
| Basically there are three distinct types of pool | | | | which traps dirt and debris from the water that |
| filters. Each one is suitable for specific type of | | | | passes through it. This is the most advanced type |
| aquatic setups. | | | | of pool filter and the quality of its filtration is the |
| Sand filters - This type of filter is basically a tank | | | | best among the three types. |
| almost 2/3 filled with specially graded sand. It has | | | | Sta-Rite pool filters have a wide range of all these |
| an inlet which brings in the water and diffuses it | | | | three type of filters. They come in different sizes |
| on top of the sand bed through a diffuser. The | | | | and prices. You can pick and choose from this |
| water percolates through the sand. Any dirt and | | | | range of filters at and that too at discounted |
| debris is trapped within the sand grains. When the | | | | prices. |