Sand Filter Media That's Better Than DE! 

Used glass media on a new filter install 3 years ago and couldn't be happier with the results. Also good to know the really fine stuff coming out while backwashing isn’t abnormal.

Great video thanks for the info Kenny!

Love the sand filter content. Just fixed mine(I have the exact one in this video) and I'm using glass media now as of two weeks ago! I still get the fine dirt but I just overfill barley and vacuum to waste. I wish I would have seen this weeks ago my pool guy replaced it with trivitio glass media. That pool looks WAY better then mine.

New subscriber here -Love your videos. Have you ever thought about filming your pool routes and how you clean the various different pools and add chemicals ? That would be cool!

I had a sand filter for 17 years at former house. Got into this house now with DE and have had nothing but problems. DE are terrible. Thanks for the info. I am now probably going to switch.

Should I have any problems using Dr. Drydens with a Pool Rx capsule in my above ground pool? I know opinions are mixed on the Pool Rx, but I love it.

I recently switched to Dr. Dryden's glass media, but used 4 bags of the coarse grade in my 250# tank bc the prescribed 2 bags didn't cover my laterals. I was worried about the fine grade getting into the slits of the laterals. A local pool store that sells another glass media only sells their coarse grade for that same reason.

When figuring out how much Dr.Dryden to add do you include the weight of the pea gravel? Example 450 pounds of #20 sand to addition of 150 pounds of pea gravel. How much would i need? Thanks for your help

Hey Kenny do you know if Vitroclean is just as good of a glass media? Seems like it could be just as effective but significantly cheaper.

Hi Kenny I’ve been using Dr , Dryden now for 3 seasons I didn’t hear you talk about the RPM to run Dryden glass most important part of using ?

So, if you have to put the required amounts of coarse on the bottom and fine on the top, what happens when you backwash? don't they mix together? I'll be doing this conversion this fall. Thanks

Great video as always but you didn't cover how to use the "enhance summer" portion of the product.

Interesting products but I would definitely encourage consumers to purchase fiberglass tank filters if they're going this route. Thermoplastic blow molded filters often only last a few years, especially with larger pumps and once you have coarse and fine inside the same filter I doubt the media could be saved and re-used. Also curious about disposal of glass media when the filter does fail.

My filter currently has Zeosand in it (3 years old), how often do I need to change it? Dang, this Dr Drydens is expensive!

I've had poor results with a Pentair TR60 in getting rid of the very fine silt dust I'm plagued with on a 30K gallon pool, it's finer than an aquabot fine filter bag can even get. I've tried both Mystic White II sand one time, and glass media as well, and I also tried deep cleaning the sand every year. I wish I could just drop (replace) in a Pentair 520 sq ft cartridge filter (or maybe even a DE filter), but it appears the inlets and the outlets are swapped between the sand and the cartridge filter (On the sand filter the output is the bottom, but on the Cartridge types or DE types, the output is on the top). My PVC pipes would end up looking like a rat's nest with lots of 90 degree bends that are going to lose me some water flow performance, AND the distance off the ground to the first pipe is 8 inches on the cartridge or DEs, and is about 13 5/8 inches on the TR60. I wish there was a standard design on these things that would allow us to switch more easily.

Is this an upgrade from cartridge filter ?

Is that a single main drain in that pool? Must be old?

I'm in Ohio and my three local pool stores do not carry it. Trying to figure out how to get it

is zeolite any good compared to glass?

How do you feel about the chlrohine genie unit??

What is a DE filter?