So I have an agp with the stairs you gotta weight down. I didn’t want to use sand this year and instead in a fit of inspiration I used some cinderblocks. It works. Water flows around them. All is good.
Now. I have what’s considered soft well water. It’s high in iron of course but fairly low in calcium. Can’t remember magnesium level. I used probably 5,000 gallons of well water, 15,000 city water and some bleach rain to fill my new liner. I had about 100ppm of calicum at best, added mostly by cal hypo and 11 pounds of the calcium stuff I had.
Slowly my calcium level over the course of 6 weeks has risen to 400ppm. I can’t figure out how….except it’s those cinder blocks leaching it out. Of course that means they will deteriorate and I’ll have to find some other way of weighing down the stairs. Seem plausible this is where the calcium is coming from? 3 16” blocks?I can’t think of anything else and block is known for calcium scaling.
Now. I have what’s considered soft well water. It’s high in iron of course but fairly low in calcium. Can’t remember magnesium level. I used probably 5,000 gallons of well water, 15,000 city water and some bleach rain to fill my new liner. I had about 100ppm of calicum at best, added mostly by cal hypo and 11 pounds of the calcium stuff I had.
Slowly my calcium level over the course of 6 weeks has risen to 400ppm. I can’t figure out how….except it’s those cinder blocks leaching it out. Of course that means they will deteriorate and I’ll have to find some other way of weighing down the stairs. Seem plausible this is where the calcium is coming from? 3 16” blocks?I can’t think of anything else and block is known for calcium scaling.
