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Filtration and Pumping This means ensuring that your pool pump is pumping sufficient water through the swimming pool filter to enable the filter to filter out the majority of suspended particles. In other words it is cleaning the water. Your pool pump should be able to filter or turn over 1 1/2 to 2 times the total volume of your pool water every day or within a 6-8 hour cycle. Turning off your filtration to save power consumption is false economy. You don't keep turning off your drinking water filter do you? As most of us are familiar with filters for our drinking water; well filtering your pool water, in theory is exactly the same. The exception is that the pool filter is much larger than the small filter we have for our drinking water. It has to work much harder as well. Why? Because the pool water is exposed to outside elements, drinking water is not. On a daily basis airborne particles, leaves and other pollutants are carried into your pool water, not to mention pollutants introduced from swimmers, body oils, sunscreens, urine and so on. The rule of thumb is that your pump and filter should operate for eight hours a day. Four hours in the morning and four hours in the evening, based on turn over rates. This can be lowered in the winter months. Turning off your pump and filter or salt chlorinator is the same as turning your washing machine off half way through a cycle and expecting your clothes to come out clean! Tip: Purchase a good quality heavy duty timer. Set your pump and filter to come on and off at two four hourly intervals. Then you don't need to be turning your pool on and off. If you have a salt pool most salt chlorinators have their own timers. Tip: R emember to check your pool' s skimmer b asket and your pool's pump basket for leaves and debris and empty it when the pump and filter are not operating. 5

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