Any Concerns with Filtered/Softened Water?

[hollywoodfrodo]

I live in SoCal and it’s true what they say that “it never rains in Southern California.” So even though our water isn’t too hard, after adding water almost daily in the summer and then hardly getting any rain water in the winter to offset and runoff the calcium, the calcium levels eventually get too high and so I have to go through the tedious process of emptying the pool about 2/3 and refilling.

We are installing a water filtering and softening system soon and we got one with a high capacity in hopes that I could use the softened/filtered water most of the time going forward so as to not ever have to deal with high calcium levels again. But I just wanted to check in with the experts here and make sure there isn’t anything I need to be worried about with that. Obviously I’m starting with a full pool of “regular” water so not filling it up with filtered soft water (the system couldn’t handle that of course) but just want to use the softened filtered water for my daily (less now during winter) addition of water.

Thanks for any insights!

 

[PoolStored]

Water softener is universally recommended on TFP for those with high calcium content in fill water.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

I installed one back in 2018 and made sure the autofill line was connected to it. It has been hassle free ever since. My CH would increase at a rate of 300ppm/year before the softener was installed. After it was installed, my CH barely rises between 25-50ppm per year. I do plan to drain my pool this coming spring to do tile cleaning, grout repair, and surface/plaster cleaning. When I do, I’ll fill with unsoftened water (180-220 ppm CH nominally), but then switch to softened after that. Once I do, that fill will go the distance for a long long time.

 

[hollywoodfrodo]

Thanks for the input!