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Doesn't freeze often enough or deeply enough to be an issue. But adobe walls and no attic, which is why the pipes are under the slab beneath the house. Adding water to the rain collection system is an interesting idea that hadn't occurred to me. Might need to think on that some more.

Yeah, so many ways to do it I'm struggling to pick one! I'd love softened water for the whole house to reduce scale and help appliances last longer. I just don't want to kill my garden with salt in the process. Installing a bypass for the garden would be a huge undertaking, lots of trenching...

Yeah, my CH goes up about 200-250 ppm/year. Looking into water softeners, but I don't have any way to keep my garden water separated from a whole house water softener (70's home with under slab water lines, and the garden and pool share the same water line running from the house to the back...

Out of curiosity I took a sample to Leslie's today to compare their "AccuBlue" machine to my own tests using the TF-100 (plus a digital pH meter). Collected a large sample and split it in half, tested half myself, filled a sample bottle with the other half and took it to the Leslie's down the...

Yes, very unlikely there's anything dangerous to your pool in whatever that was, particularly in the small quantities that got into the water.

Cement is an ingredient in mortar and concrete, and whatever was used there was not just cement, though it may have had a small amount of cement in it. Since you state that they didn't add anything unusual to it, I'm guessing it was some sort of pre-blended bagged product that was mixed with...