I must have done something wrong because the calcium granules turned into a solid block at the bottom of the bucket. I put warm water in the bucket, mixed it around, dumped in what dissolved immediately, and then left the rest sitting overnight with 4 inches of water sitting on top. Now the remaining granules have formed a solid block at the bottom which I cant even break up with a wood spoon. What did I do wrong? I have a vinyl liner so I may just throw out the rest but it still seems strange.
Calcium hardness granules turned to solid block soaking in bucket
- Thread starter AndyTN
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Liquid Chlorine or Plain Household Bleach would be much more cost effective and not create cloudiness
Do you have a full test kit?
You don't need calcium with vinyl
Liquid Chlorine or Plain Household Bleach would be much more cost effective and not create cloudiness
Do you have a full test kit?
I know I have read for years than low CH isn't a concern for vinyl but I have also read that it cannot hurt to have a reading of 50-100 and can make the water feel a little better. With CH being so cheap, I figured I would add a little. My question though is about the CH granules forming together to create this solid block in the bucket. I use liquid bleach and the pool water is balanced but I just used tap water to mix with the CH in the bucket so pool water isn't relevant yet. I could easily just throw away the remaining CH since I have vinyl but I'm curious if this is normal for the granules to fuse together.Welcome to TFP!
You don't need calcium with vinyl
Liquid Chlorine or Plain Household Bleach would be much more cost effective and not create cloudiness
Do you have a full test kit?
- May 3, 2014
- 58,525
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
It is not normal. Typically when you add calcium chloride to water you get a fairly violent exothermic reaction.
Are you sure what you used is calcium chloride?
Are you sure what you used is calcium chloride?
Yes, ingredients say 100% calcium chloride. Maybe I didn't stir it up enough when initially mixed with water or maybe I made a mistake of using warm water to mix? I will just throw it away since it could be a bad batch and I will likely not be able to get it to dissolve anyway now that it is the texture of a brick.
If feel is desired, you can try 2000ppm of pure softener salt, will have much more benefit! No red eyes, less dry itchy skin feeling
I sometimes use calcium hypochlorite as a source of chlorine which naturally adds some CH. I always have some on hand for when I run out of bleach and need to dose the pool. But like vinyl, fiberglass doesn’t need it.