How NOT to clean your filters

[Bonibelle]

I ran out of the purple filter cleaner that I usually buy from my dealer, so I decided to use a TPS solution to soak my filters. I rinsed them well (but obvioulsy not well enough). Then I like to soak them briefly in bromine so that they don't get a musty smell as they dry. It always takes them a long time to dry!! :-/

I guess I either didn't measure well (because I thought I had a really really dilute TSP solution) or I didn't rinse well enough..but obviously I didn't do something right. My pH dropped like a rock when I put the filters in...and I am having a hard time getting it to stay where it belongs. To top that, I have an overload of bromine which must be from a residual in my filters!   :-/

Dumb dumb dumb  

[Vinny]

Not as dumb as someone not paying attention to their tub and opening up to a yucky mess ... that someone is ME!

[Chas]

I once left my filters out in my front yard to dry as I put away the garden hose and went to change into dry shoes and socks. Then the phone rang, and a few other things came up. By time I got back out the filters were almost dry - and more importantly - the concrete all around them was dry.

Except for a small patch right at the base of one of the filters. Which was a particular yellow color.

We have a lot of dog-walkers in our neighborhood.....


 8-)