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    Extremely high calcium hardness - Drain and refill? What to do while drained?

    No, it's not rough to the feel. Is blasting the only method? I've heard of some chemicals or other methods for removing it. Right, the heat can damage the plaster. Getting softened water would be complicated, unless I just installed another softener for the pool. Yup that was my plan when...
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    Extremely high calcium hardness - Drain and refill? What to do while drained?

    There is scale on the tile at the water line. Not sure if there is scale on the pebble. Is that something that would be obvious? I chlorinate with the SWG. Yes my water softener is for the whole house but the hose bibs outside and the auto fill valve for the pool is not softened water.
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    Extremely high calcium hardness - Drain and refill? What to do while drained?

    My pool was built 4 years ago. It was filled then and hasn't been completely drained since. It's an in-ground, (from my estimate) 11000 gallons, pebble finish, with a SWG and a DE filter. Up until recently I was just using the home depot test kit and adding acid when necessary to decrease pH and...
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    Replace IntelliBrite with GloBrite/MicroBrite?

    So my pool (only built 2 years ago) has all GloBrite lights except for one which is an IntelliBrite 5G (model 640142). The colors, of course, don't match which is driving me crazy so I want a solution to this. My installer said there is nothing that can be done. Is it possible to install a...