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08/08/2007, 22:39 Chocolate Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 94 Zeolite We are unsure of the age of the sand in our filter so we think that next year we should change it. It looks as if zeolite could be a sensible option according to the posts we have read on this site.   What have other people asked for, (zeolite presumably?), in what type of suppliers do we get it and what is the probable cost please?  We prefer to support local businesses if possible.    Report

08/08/2007, 23:04 Mikey Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 173 Re: Zeolite very good choice, the stuff is amazing. I got mine from poolguy. makes a huge differance. and you don't need to backwash so often.    Report

09/08/2007, 18:34 JJ Joined on 01/01/2005 Charente Maritime Posts 247 Re: Zeolite Like Mikey I got mine from PoolGuy, and I have noticed a big difference in the clarity of the water, and the other bonus is that one only needs to backwash every 2 to 3 weeks, which saves a fair bit of water. A big warning though is do not be tempted to use any sort of flocculant as it will block up the filtration medium. JJ www.gites.gb.com    Report

10/08/2007, 10:06 Poolguy Joined on 25/12/2004 Charante Maritime Posts 780 Re: Zeolite  Chocolate wrote: We are unsure of the age of the sand in our filter so we think that next year we should change it. It looks as if zeolite could be a sensible option according to the posts we have read on this site.   What have other people asked for, (zeolite presumably?), in what type of suppliers do we get it and what is the probable cost please?  We prefer to support local businesses if possible. Chocolate Send me you email address, phone number and pics of your filter with the spec lable clearly visiable so that I can estimate the quality of zeolite for your filter or conversly multiply the sand content by 60% and thats the amount you will need in Kg.  I'll help you with all the other info you need including an information sheet. You're in luck, as I am a Local business. Andrew www.Poolguy.fr    Report

10/08/2007, 11:18 Chocolate Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 94 Re: Zeolite Thank you for the replies and especially to Poolguy. The advice he gives to all freely is much valued. However, I was looking for a closer supplier than one in the Charante Maritime if possible. Is zeolite specially imported and/or only sold by Poolguy's company? It sounds just like a generic substance and hopefully should be available from a number of sources. A 'pool' shop? A specialist grit or gravel supplier? A builder's merchants ( just like building sand or cement) ?  Information from a non-customer of Poolguy (my apologies Poolguy. Nothing personal) who lives in the Midi Pyranees  would be helpful. Many thanks in advance.    Report

10/08/2007, 13:38 Mikey Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 173 Re: Zeolite poolguy delivers, i live in brittany and he drove a guzzillion miles to deliver mine personally, now thats service.    Report

10/08/2007, 16:52 Poolguy Joined on 25/12/2004 Charante Maritime Posts 780 Re: Zeolite  Chocolate wrote: Thank you for the replies and especially to Poolguy. The advice he gives to all freely is much valued. However, I was looking for a closer supplier than one in the Charante Maritime if possible. Is zeolite specially imported and/or only sold by Poolguy's company? It sounds just like a generic substance and hopefully should be available from a number of sources. A 'pool' shop? A specialist grit or gravel supplier? A builder's merchants ( just like building sand or cement) ?  Information from a non-customer of Poolguy (my apologies Poolguy. Nothing personal) who lives in the Midi Pyranees  would be helpful. Many thanks in advance. I do not take your post personally Chocolate but you must know that I do find it bizzare that you are happy to read, benefit from my advise and improvment options (which is given freely) but not contact me because I live in another department. I thought it may also help you to know that ZEL EAU is my own brand and I am the importer (into europe) from a mineral deposit in the outback of Australia - as its a prticualy high grade of Zeolite. There are some other people marketing the same mineral sourced from different places, but there is no comparison in the quality and consequently the results and I believe that the price is higher. I do have distributors throughout France and other countries and the closest one to you is in the Aude. So if you would like him to offer you service then I propose that you send me your details so that it may be passed on. Or I can ship it to you directly as I do for people across France. I fear that you will wait a long time for a someone else to post on the subject having used another supplier, as none of the places you list, including France's impressive collection of 'Pool Shops' with their so called 'experts' will have ever heard of it much less be able to source it. If they can chances are that it will be from me anyway. Its up to you.If I can help then I will. Andrew My thanks to Mikey and JJ for their endorsements and help also... thanks chaps. www.Poolguy.fr    Report

11/08/2007, 16:48 Jonzjob Joined on 23/08/2004 Nr Carcassonne, 11 Posts 2,842 Re: Zeolite I'll also go along with what has been said. Andrew delivered to us and we are further than you chocolate. The stuff is very impressive! The French 'pool shops' even told me that there is no test for total alkalinity? They really know (not) what they are talking about half of the time?? Andrew, does you guy in the Aude live near to us peut etra? John. The only difference between the men & the boys is the size & the shape & the price of their toys!!    Report

12/08/2007, 11:18 Chocolate Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 94 Re: Zeolite When we came to France, we were advised to try to use local businesses for our needs in order to support the local economy in which we lived. We have done that, and I must say have not come adrift yet. Advice, help, support and products bought have been appropriate for each task we have undertaken and results have been quick and satisfactory. Whilst I have from time to time read the 'swimming pool' section of the forum,  I don't think that information found there has benefited me more than talking to local people, (businesses and other people who have had pools for many years ), once we found the time to persue answers to our problems with them. So far, as I say, we have been very satisfied by local help. We had been advised/thought that it was time to change the sand and I had remembered the zeolite suggestion by yourself to others in the past, came back to the forum and used the search facility. I  wondered what advantages zeolite might have when no-one else locally had suggested it to me. Also I Googled after my last post and came up with yourself as the supplier (which is clearly why no-one else had suggested it), and full details of the product and of zeolite in general, which is really what I should have done before I posted here in the first place. Thank you for your replies, but we have decided that good though others think your product is, we shall for the moment go back down the re-fill sand route.  I am sure that many people have benefited from your expert advice and visits to their pools and will continue to do so.     Report

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