Calcium Chloride..

[precator]

I need to raise my calcium hardness. Anyone know where I can get Calcium Chloride from other than a pool store..

 

[Butterfly]

I need to raise my calcium hardness. Anyone know where I can get Calcium Chloride from other than a pool store..

Well, Howard just found some with free shipping from Ace Hardware. It is being shipped to the store for him to pick up.

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HTH

 

[benavidescj]

Home Depot sells it too.

 

[precator]

Home Depot sells it too.

what is it called at Home Depot?

 

[Butterfly]

Depending on your location, you may or may not find it locally. Be sure to call before you drive!

From Pool School:

Calcium hardness can be raised with calcium chloride or calcium chloride dihydrate. They are available in some areas as Peladow, Dowflake, Tetra Flake, or Tetra 94, often sold as a deicer by hardware stores, and some big box stores, in colder climates. Pool stores will carry either calcium chloride or calcium chloride dihydrate under a variety of names, including Hardness Plus, Balance Pak 300, Calcium Hardness Increaser, etc. Calcium products should be spread across the surface of the deep end of the pool

 

[chem geek]

[EDIT] See the post after this one. The Home Depot product to get is really pool time Calcium Hardness Increaser.

I'm moving a discussion I had about DampRid to a separate thread on that product which may have too much iron in it for use in pools.[END-EDIT]

 

[benavidescj]

Home Depot sells it too.

what is it called at Home Depot?

It's called Pool Time Calcium Hardness Increaser. Like Butterfly said you may want to check to see if your local store has it before driving.

 

[JLROHIO]

Can I use RoadRunner Ice Melt as a way to add in Calcium Chloride?

Here is a product page here http://www.icesalt.com/product-review/roadrunner-ice-melt/

It is advertised: "is a combination of powerful compounds that include salt, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride, and calcium chloride."


Would the other ingredients be by-products that I would not want? (I do have salt water).


BTW, I can get this product for $3 for a 10lb bag right now.

 

[JasonLion]

I wouldn't use Ice Melt. It isn't pure calcium chlorine, so you will need more, and it contains magnesium, which could get to levels high enough to cause stains.

 

[JLROHIO]

Thanks for the reply...
I'll do some searching to find the other products that contain Calcium Chloride.



Update - Looks like Home Depot has the above mentioned product in stock in my local store!
http://www.homedepot.com/Outdoors-O...splay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

 

[RobbieH]

Chlorinating with Cal Hypo will do it.

 

[solarboy]

Chlorinating with Cal Hypo will do it.

That's what I'd do, kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak.

 

[guamguy]

Chlorinating with Cal Hypo will do it.

I've done that before, it takes a LONG time to get an increase of 50 ppm or so. On the other hand, if you need CH and also need to shock, cal-hypo would do the trick quite nicely.

 

[adrob2]

Is pool time calcium hardness increaser calcium chloride or calcium chloride dihydrate?

 

[westermark1980]

I need to raise my calcium hardness. Anyone know where I can get Calcium Chloride from other than a pool store..

Prestone Driveway Heat or equivilant. No cheapie blends, the 18.00 for 50lb stuff.

 

[duraleigh]

This thread is over a year old and probably is not of much interest to anyone.

 

[rbmckenz13]

I bought calcium chloride on Gemplers online. Just showed up today. Took about 5 days.

 

[vagrowr]

Actually, Duraleigh, it is of interest to me right now

 

[airbur]

Actually, Duraleigh, it is of interest to me right now

And to me now! Our local stores have plenty of 100% calcium chloride de-icer but zero pool calcium. Now I know I can use the good de-icer.

 

[stricttime]

And to me! Thank you TFP, for keeping threads like this open so we don't have to post a new thread!