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Properly maintaining swimming pools can be tricky business. You have to understand what kind of chemicals are best used to treat the water of the pool and you have to have a filter to keep the water pumping and get rid of any dirt or debris that might end up in that water. There are three different kinds of pool filters available for your inground pool and you should know that all of them will do an exceptional job at keeping your pool clean and usable.

Even though all three pool filter systems (sand, cartridge, and diatomaceous earth) will do a good job of removing all of the nasty stuff from your pool they each work in different ways and will each have distinct characteristics that you might want to consider before you install one of them. If you’re looking for particular brands for pool pumps and filters you might want to check out a Hayward pool filter or one of the Intex pool filters.

Pool Sand Filter: Can’t Go Wrong with Sand

A swimming pool sand filter pictured above.  

Sand filters use the technology of the earth itself to filter your pool system. Basically what they do is push water through a bed of sand at one end of the pool. As the water is sucked through the layers of sand all of the stuff you don’t want to see floating around your pool will be caught up in the sand and filtered through a series of tubes underneath. Dirty pool water comes in through the top layer of sand and clean water is put back into the pool after the filtration is complete.

Sand filters have their benefits. They are really easy to clean because all you have to do is replace the used up dirty sand with some new sand but they have a pretty low catch rate. Sand is dense but it isn’t the finest comb for filtering water so the backwash hydraulic pool filter pump the filter uses to pump water back into the pool isn’t going to catch everything it should. Sand filters are the least effective filtration type because they will always allow the smaller particles to get back into the pool.

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