Finally stopped guessing on my CC Plus filter rinses

Started by Dana Whitfield · · 2 replies
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Small one but felt good. I used to just rinse the filter basket on the Dolphin whenever I remembered, which was basically never until it looked gross. Started actually checking it after every other run instead and holy cow the difference in suction on the pool floor was noticeable within like two days.

Turns out with three kids cannonballing all summer theres way more hair and sunscreen gunk clogging it than I realized, it just wasnt obvious until I compared side by side. Takes two minutes with the hose while dinners going anyway so no excuse really.

Anyway, if your robot seems like its losing steam over the week before you do anything else check that basket, cheapest fix there is.

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yeah the basket thing is real, i do the same mental check on my manual vac bag now cause it fills up way faster than i expect with how much junk settles in the deep end of the diving pool. didnt think a filter basket could make that much difference to suction but it tracks, mine gets packed with leaf bits and whatever dust blows in off the desert and i can feel the vac dragging less once i rinse it out. still dont have a robot yet, keep eyeing the aiper seagull but figure if a basket rinse alone is giving you two days of noticeable difference that's basically free maintenance nobody should skip.
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Dana, the two minute fix nobody skips is exactly right, and Tyler's point about the basket packing out faster than expected tracks with my Dolphin too, but the one thing both of you are leaving out is the fine filter bags themselves get waterlogged and lose flow way before they look full, so don't just eyeball the basket, feel whether water's still moving through the bag material itself. Mine clogs invisibly during pollen season even when the basket looks half empty.