Hi all,
Inherited this pool when we moved in, and it had clearly been 'pool serviced'. Took me all the way until this year to get CYA into a normal range. I keep CSI slightly negative due to the hi calcium here. Anyway, I had the tile bead blasted 2 years ago and still no calcium at or below the water line. However, given the roughness of the tile and nearly constant breeze/wind in the back yard, the water tends to splash up on the tiles and form a haze. There is even a small line forming about 1" above the water line. I'm used to high calcium pools living here in Phoenix, and this has never been an issue in the past. I'm thinking that some of the major amount of calcium they blasted off is still there and helping the water to 'stick' above the water line and form the haze.
I keep the pool around these values - my last full test:
FC - 7
TC - <= .5
PH - 7.5
T/A - 60
CYA - ~50 (was over 100 when I first moved in - clearly the previews owners had been pucked!)
CH - 550 (my last pool was well over 600 and never had this issue, except around the spillover)
CSI - -.02
To complicate things some more, the skimmer sits a bit low, so I really can't raise the water as it submerses the skimmer and prevents it from skimming - I have a yellow lab, so the skimmer is integral to hair removal!
Anyone have any good suggestions for removing this easily? The only options in my head are:
- Muriatic acid with a spray bottle - not a big fan of this given the constant breeze out there. Inhaling that stuff certainly sucks!
- Pumice stone and 2 months of work - doing a few at a time
- Just say screw the skimmer for a week or 2 (in the winter), raise the water level up, and bring CSI down enough to dissolve it.
- Go nuclear and pay the pool tile folks to remove it again
Inherited this pool when we moved in, and it had clearly been 'pool serviced'. Took me all the way until this year to get CYA into a normal range. I keep CSI slightly negative due to the hi calcium here. Anyway, I had the tile bead blasted 2 years ago and still no calcium at or below the water line. However, given the roughness of the tile and nearly constant breeze/wind in the back yard, the water tends to splash up on the tiles and form a haze. There is even a small line forming about 1" above the water line. I'm used to high calcium pools living here in Phoenix, and this has never been an issue in the past. I'm thinking that some of the major amount of calcium they blasted off is still there and helping the water to 'stick' above the water line and form the haze.
I keep the pool around these values - my last full test:
FC - 7
TC - <= .5
PH - 7.5
T/A - 60
CYA - ~50 (was over 100 when I first moved in - clearly the previews owners had been pucked!)
CH - 550 (my last pool was well over 600 and never had this issue, except around the spillover)
CSI - -.02
To complicate things some more, the skimmer sits a bit low, so I really can't raise the water as it submerses the skimmer and prevents it from skimming - I have a yellow lab, so the skimmer is integral to hair removal!
Anyone have any good suggestions for removing this easily? The only options in my head are:
- Muriatic acid with a spray bottle - not a big fan of this given the constant breeze out there. Inhaling that stuff certainly sucks!
- Pumice stone and 2 months of work - doing a few at a time
- Just say screw the skimmer for a week or 2 (in the winter), raise the water level up, and bring CSI down enough to dissolve it.
- Go nuclear and pay the pool tile folks to remove it again
