New Diamond Brite Plaster- When can I run Heater?

[johnfromphilly]

I just had a total pool renovation- down to the shell. The Diamond Brite plaster was installed yesterday (8/26/2008). I was told that I cannot run my heater for two weeks. Is this just to be careful and are there exceptions? I am having my sons birthday party on 9-6 ( 11 days after plaster) and we are going to want to run the heater since it is getting to be cool here at night in the Philadelphia area.

Thanks in advance- great forum!

John

 

[Rockcrawler]

I have never heard that before, do you know why you can not run the heater?

 

[johnfromphilly]

I have never heard that before, do you know why you can not run the heater?

I imagine they want to keep it from getting too hot and protect the plaster. I do not know but they have it in the instructions and I asked also- they said to wait two weeks. I need to use it after 11 days. Anyone have a comment on this??

 

[johnfromphilly]

I spoke to Tech service at SGM who makes Diamond Brite and they said it is OK to heat the pool. His assurance to me was that if I heat the pool to 85 how can that be bad when pools in Florida are naturally that temp after a few days and do not have problems. The pool party is on!!

 

[Butterfly]

Good news for you, John!

We hope your son's birthday party will be great!

ETA: Your pool is beautiful. 8)

 

[johnfromphilly]

Thanks. Now I need to power wash concrete, replace deck and fence, landscape.....one thing always leads to another. Since the pool looks nice, now everything else looks old.

 

[brian7270]

Just to expand on this, generally the reason they tell you not to run the heater is because they do an initial acid bath with a quartz plaster. However, they should have completely bypassed the heater if they were going to do that. The acid will corrode the heat exchanger.

Brian