The Ultimate Cartridge Filter Cleaner for Pools & Hot Tubs

I don't write positive reviews often enough, but this device warrants my review! I was very skeptical that this device would make a difference cleaning my pool filters, but it has! I was prepared to send this back as a gimmick but it actually helps! I have used the hose with my thumb to widen spray or create more pressure, I have used a pistol-type hose attachment with many different settings to create fan shape water and high power spray, and I have even used a pressure washer on two lowest pressure nozzles to clean my filters. I don't recommend the pressure washing method as it tore the filter. This gadget is far superior to your thumb in hose method and to my surprise, also works better than pistol-type hose attachments. You don't need to constantly change settings for whatever needs sprayed on the filter, you get 3 or 4 different sprays in one gadget with only one spray pattern! You control how spray pattern hits filter two ways, first is distance. At close range you are spraying several streams across a semi-circle and it cleans about a four-inch space on the filter. Need a more focused spray? Pull the flosser back about 5 inches and all the streams meet in the center causing some kind of water collision that works very well to clean smaller spaces more thoroughly. The other one to two spray patterns are accomplished by simply twisting your wrist or the filter by 90*. This wrist-twist turns the spray pattern vertical so all the sprays are aimed into one pleat of the filter aiming in and cleaning about a 4-5 inch length inside a single pleat. When it loosens debris pull the flosser back about 5-inches and hit it with the water where the streams collide, for a more focused spray! That's it! Very simple, very effective! And finally, being made of metal (aluminum is my guess) it is made to last longer than a plastic piece. You can drop it, I have, and it doesn't break. This makes filter cleaning quicker and easier. I will be keeping mine!

Worked better than expected, cut my filter cleaning time to a tenth of what it took with a typical hose end sprayer.

This cleaning wand works amazing! The difference between cleaning with just the hose and cleaning solution and cleaning with the wand jet by itself was night and day. If cleaned it quickly and efficiently. The value for the Money is quite good. The filter is definitely bound to last longer as it is cleaned better.

Cartridge filters are mandated by my local code (water conservation cited as reason). Cleaning them is a messy pain and is never 100 percent effective -- and in my estimation consumes just as much water as backwashing DE. This product increases the effectiveness and reduces the time it takes. Be sure to note that, aside from broad cleaning via the arc of streams, the spot where the streams collide is also nicely intense for spot cleaning.

I REALLY wanted to like this, but it’s just not effective at deep cleaning. It does a wonderful job getting the surface schmurtz off a cartridge filter, but it doesn’t do enough in between the pleats.

This product made cleaning my filters so much easier!

Flat out crap. I put off clicking the return button on Amazon because I threw it in my garage and forgot about it. This is a cheaply made, piece of junk that offers no help in cleaning your filters.

Was skeptic put it’s early handy, works good and better than just the hose