Pool Filter Cartridge Cleaning Tool

This really did an excellent job, and was much quicker than just the hose. It takes a few minutes of practice to see how to use it best, but it really is a great tool for the job. Before and after photos after we had two giant dustorms in three days.

I resisted buying this thing because I thought the price was way too much but when I had to kill algae in my pool and my filter was caked with it I broke down and paid the $23.50 for it. I should have paid it years ago. This thing really does work well. My filters were coated in slime and gunk. I soaked them in filter cleaner and rinsed them with this tool and viola they came out GREAT and it was so easy and fast. So if you're like me and think this thing costs way too much buy it anyway. I'm now a believer. It's worth the $23. It took an hour per filter cleaning job down to about 10 minutes each for really gunked up filters. My normal filter cleaning (without5 the algae) I can do in under 5 minutes. I wish I had taken picture to share the before and after. You would not believe it the filters are so clean they look almost new.

Did great job cleaning pool filter, adjustable water pressure is a great feature. Made cleaning the filter fast and easy, saved a fortune by not having to replace filter as often.

So far, so good this product allow me to clean the filter effectively, especially with the comb able to go through the sleeve easier

I’ve been using a spray nozzle for years. This product really opened up the cleats for a much better cleaning.

It is something I have used many times. They work great for cleaning filters in an inground pool.

we have softub filters with dense and deep folds that are hard to clean. The debris and gunk like lint and the bits of dead skin are often left stuck in the deepest part of the fold unless you part and hold each pleat open whilst rinsing. Even backflushing does not dislodge this because the pleats are so tightly arranged. To get these really clean is impossible to do with any efficiency at all unless you have at least three hands because each fold must be held open to expose the crease to a strong enough flow of water to flush it out or it just pushes the dirt further in to the fold.I saw this and thought it was the solution I had been seeking, but it still left a visible gunk in the deep folds that I could rinse away, as long as I could hold each fold open wide enough to get the stream of water to reach it.The design is probably best of the tools out there now, but I feel like the person who made it does not actually use it on a real filter than has muck in it. The fingers of the tool are deep enough to reach the crease, but not able to hold the pleat open wide enough for the water stream to flush out the debris effectively. I think the directions for use are trying to achieve that by describing "rotating strokes" (which best guess means to turn the tool sideways to change the flat angle of the water stream from perpendicular to parallel to the fold) but is not the effect because it only slightly opens the outermost fold while compressing the rest between the fingers as you twist.The pressure is good enough, and better than I got with a brass end stream or hose alone and does improve efficiency there, but I still end up trying to use both hands to open the fold wide enough and can't do it and hold the tool at the same time. Still need a separate solution for backflushing since it won't be able to fit inside the center tooalso I appreciate there is a cutoff, but it is difficult to turn and must use two hands, thus sprays water everwhere before you can stop the flow.you WILL get wet, but not as bad as with hose brass end.probably worth the price to buy, as it is a step in the right direction, but there are a few ways it could have been a really excellent solution and just did not follow through the idea to the design. If the tool were a hand, the water ejects from the joint at the top of the palm, shooting the stream across the top of the fingers, which is less than ideal.If the water were ejected at the TIPS of the "fingers" of the comb part, THEN we would be onto something really good, as it would actually apply the force of water at the fold crease where it needs to be in order to flush it properly without having to hold open the folds in order to allow the water to reach that point. This might even have been better designed with the prongs in FRONT of the water holes, rather than behind, as then the separation of the fold would be ahead of the water jet, rather than behind it. You can use it by pulling toward you, but that still points the jet in the opposite direction from the motion and therefore not dislodging it effectively.three stars for being better than not having a tool for the specific purpose, but lacking in obvious design choices that would have made it really good at the job instead of just doing it a little better. A few more steps into the thought process behind its existence could have resulted in a tool that I would happily spend twice as much for and been worth three times as much or more in the value of energy and time spent using it.I should try and make it myself...

Very effective