It is recommended that pool and spa filters should be removed and cleaned every two weeks and replaced completely after three months. By maintaining clean filters, your pool and spa will run at optimum performance. Pleatco Pure filter cartridges are manufactured using the highest quality raw materials to produce the best filter cartridges. This product, Pleatco PLB50 Replacement Pool Filter for Leisure Bay 50, has a top-quality Pleatco Advanced Point Bonded Filtration Fabric which contains more fibers per unit area offering far greater volume dirt holding capacity because of its reduced pore size distribution. This ensures that its filter fabric will provide impressive turbidity reduction due to its unique cross filtration flow which easily and efficiently captures dirt particles. Its uniformly placed weld spots with uniquely bonded fabrics are strong and robust and return to a high state of original performance after the cleaning which equals to greater usability, longer cleaning cycles, and less service time. Its Core utilizes the Free Flow Core Technology of Pleatco allowing an even flow of water through the entire cartridge increasing filtration and combined with the Pleatco Advanced Point Bonded Filtration Fabric makes it easier for the pump to move water through the entire cartridge. The Free Flow Cores are designed to be efficient with an engineered extra strength injection molded ABS, robust and saving energy, money and the environment. It has a filter area of 50 Sq. Ft. and has a crack-resistant 2-7/8-inch open top end and a 2-7/8-inch open bottom end. With an outer diameter of 7-1/2 inches and a length of 14-13/16 inches, this is used as a replacement filter cartridge that fits into pools made by Rec Warehouse specifically, 14-13/16-inch Leisure Bay 50 filters or Leisure Bay 50, 14 (111790), Rec. Warehouse filters with OEM 111790, M-7412. It can also be used to replace Unicel C-7417 and Filbur FC-3525 filters.