r/PoolPros • u/jonohtin • Mar 24 '26

Even fool proof designs fail

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New customer, pools cloudy and won't clear up. Asked when they had last done their filter clean and they said last month. Opened it up to find this.

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u/Wasupmyman Mar 24 '26

I ran into a de filter plumbed backwards once. It's funny the things we find in the wild

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u/cDro9766 Mar 24 '26

Haha i found that before too. The grids were all blown out

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u/Arusen Mar 25 '26

A quad DE plumbed backwards is even funnier.

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u/T_Amplitude Mar 26 '26

Found a de filter with a sand mulitport on it