Never expected the Polaris bag to fill up this fast after the storms

Started by Marlene Foster · · 1 reply
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We had a run of afternoon thunderstorms this week, nothing unusual for Florida in summer, and I pulled the Polaris bag out to find it packed solid with the kind of fine grit I'd normally only see once a month. Gene thinks it's all the pollen and grit getting washed off the lanai roof into the pool with the runoff. I've been checking it every other day instead of waiting for the weekend and it's made me realize how much I'd just gotten used to our usual slow accumulation. Anybody else notice their cleaner working overtime after a wet week like that? Makes me appreciate how light the thing is to haul out and dump, honestly, some of these older units are a real back-breaker in comparison.

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Gene's right about the roof runoff, Marlene, I'd bet on it. Anything with an overhang dumping into the water during a hard rain is going to load your filtration with fine debris fast, pollen's sticky stuff once it's wet too.

My Dolphin's bag does the same after a big storm here, twice the usual fill in half the time. Checking every other day instead of waiting it out is the right call, that grit sitting in there too long just makes the pump work harder next cycle for no good reason.