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In Texas our tap water has 0 hardness so during the summer when you get no rain you need to add calcium about every week to keep up with the water line replenisher. Rain water has more calcium than public water (0 calc). Houston area.

if you pour walking around the perimteter then you are puring in areas where the water is relatively stagnant so bleaching your pebbletech is a bigger risk. if you pour it near the return in the deep end (at least 7 ft of water) you reduce risk of bleaching your PT. if you bresk up 2-3 gallons...

Thank you. We had 22” in 3 days. Ran the pump 72 hours straight to lower my CYA, which dropped 23 points in 3 days. Good to know about the etching timeline but was battling chlorine/ph first now that the rain stopped. plan to dump 20 pounds of hardness in tomorrow. water temp - 77. test...

Heavy rains this week lowered hardness from 300 to 150. I have heard low calcium causes etching. Calcium is sold out due to high demand from all the rain in this area. How long do I have before etching can start? FCA - 8.68 TCA - 8.68 pH - 7.9 TA - 95 Calcium - 152 CYA - 85 Phos - 16

The biggest problem is very low soft water. In many areas the tap water has 0 CH so people constantly need to add CH. Adding 8-15 lbs a day of CH per day gets expensive but I can understand why she was doing it with the readings below as she was trying to get her CYA down and stopped using...

It appears the only solution to high CYA is to drain a pool. Yet, draining a pool even a few inches is extremely expensive. Besides high replacement water costs (at least $2000 for my 40k gallon pool), now you need a whole new set of chemicals to rebalance (calcium hardness, chlorine, acid...