So I have a house in the Bahamas. We have a water maker meant for a yacht that takes up super brackish ground water and produces 160 TDS, that makes about 3000 gpd, with a 5000 gallon cistern.
We have just finished my pool. I am on a remote island. It is a concrete pool with 100% ceramic tile, no gunnite. It is about 18x40, half 3’ deep, half 6’ deep. Roughly 25,000 gallons or so.
Right now I am filling the pool with a garden hose. As you can imagine it is slow going due to the limitations of the water maker. So far maybe 6000 gallons filled over the last 2-3 days.
Unrelated, my cistern tank is starting to smell like hydrogen sulfide - I’ve changed the filters on the water maker, and so on, but I need to shock the system. Standard procedure to shock a cistern is to put 1 gallon of unscented, regular household bleach per 1000 gallons of water in the cistern, let sit for 12 hours, then flush it, and similar shocking for the well itself.
Right now the pool probably has about 6,000 gallons of water in it. If run my cistern down to 1000 gallons, put in a gallon of bleach, and then flood that into the water into the pool, will this cause harm? Per the web, the water in the cistern will be at about 50 ppm of free chlorine when doing this, and the hose only goes about 5-10 gpm. My concern is that too much chlorine will harm the ceramic, and/or that it will remain in the pool too long.
Assuming no CYA, how long does free chlorine in these concentrations remain in a pool? It is very sunny here.
Will 50 ppm of chlorine harm ceramic tile?
TIA
We have just finished my pool. I am on a remote island. It is a concrete pool with 100% ceramic tile, no gunnite. It is about 18x40, half 3’ deep, half 6’ deep. Roughly 25,000 gallons or so.
Right now I am filling the pool with a garden hose. As you can imagine it is slow going due to the limitations of the water maker. So far maybe 6000 gallons filled over the last 2-3 days.
Unrelated, my cistern tank is starting to smell like hydrogen sulfide - I’ve changed the filters on the water maker, and so on, but I need to shock the system. Standard procedure to shock a cistern is to put 1 gallon of unscented, regular household bleach per 1000 gallons of water in the cistern, let sit for 12 hours, then flush it, and similar shocking for the well itself.
Right now the pool probably has about 6,000 gallons of water in it. If run my cistern down to 1000 gallons, put in a gallon of bleach, and then flood that into the water into the pool, will this cause harm? Per the web, the water in the cistern will be at about 50 ppm of free chlorine when doing this, and the hose only goes about 5-10 gpm. My concern is that too much chlorine will harm the ceramic, and/or that it will remain in the pool too long.
Assuming no CYA, how long does free chlorine in these concentrations remain in a pool? It is very sunny here.
Will 50 ppm of chlorine harm ceramic tile?
TIA
