I am preparing to install my new above ground metal pool. It is 21' round and 10,500 gallons, with a vinyl liner. I am contemplating using my well to fill the pool. I have tested the well water after running through an ECO ONE hose filter with my Taylor 2006 test kit. Results: FC - 0, PH - 7, TA - 250, CH - 150. Should I go ahead and use the well water to fill the pool?
Using well water to fill new pool
- Thread starter berger
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,393
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
The water chemistry from your well looks fine for a pool.
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How do you test for iron? I know our house has some pretty serious water softening equipment for the well water.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,393
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Take the water to the pool store for a metals test.
I assumed your ECO ONE hose filter filtered out iron.
Hose filters are really expensive chlorine removers. Yours filters to 20 microns which is somewhere between a sand filter and carts/de.
We'd be having members pump through them if they removed anything else and nobody would spend $1000 on RO or drain/refill their pools. Yours claims it could do your pool 4X.
It's not hurting besides likely slowing the flow.
2 of the 3 filter styles. Your hose filter does a little better than a sand filter, but not as good as a cartridge filter or DE filter. It's not removing anything that you'd hope to.
I just learned my neighbor fills his pool from his well every year. No hose filter. he says he puts in the chlorine and has no problems. I'm going to use the hose filter. what will not be removed, and what will be the consequences?
Dissolved solids such as calcium, metals and salt. It may remove large particles / sediment that the filter would have also removed after the fact.
You lost $35 for the hose filter. It only hurt your wallet.
Those things are almost laughable if you think it through. I dont know about yours but some claim to remove calcium for no water spots on your washed cars. 40k gallons worth, at that. But if your fill water is 170 CH, thats 63 lbs of calcium in that cute little filter. Really ? C'mon.
