No, mine is sand. Had a DE pool growing up and HATED it. The pool itself was garbage so probably mostly to do with that but never wanted a pool and when my wife convinced me (meaning said we were getting a pool) I put my foot down that it was either salt or sand.
Do you like the sand filter? I hate cleaning my cartridge filters.
Yeah I love the sand filter over the DE. Had it now for 6 years and never once changed the sand. I backwash when the pressure gets high and last month I did a deep clean which is just opening the filter and using a water hose to poke down through the sand to knock loose any clumps and floats out all the garbage that got past the skimmers. Wasn't much in there. Some people will say you need to change the sand every 2 years but the science doesn't back it up. Some groups have gone as far as to compare new vs different years of filter sand under a microscope and you'd have to run a pool filter almost 24/7 for 20 years before the sand starts to actually round out and lose effectiveness.
I dont know why we dont really have sand filters out here. You really just dont see them.
You have an amazing grasp of the obvious
I think people assume the DE is easier, but I remember the filters getting a tear and just pouring that cloudy DE right into the pool. Sand is less maintenance and I think keeps the pool clearer than DE ever did.
