So since nothing else is happening with building the pool except for them coming out and putting their sign back up....I'll post my lingering concerns at the time being to keep this thread alive...
So, I have a theoretical question that I do know will be "it depends on the personality of the pool" type answer (or even you should calculate it out in pool math), however, just because it's been sorta nagging at me for awhile, how much liquid chlorine do you think I will need to use on a weekly basis if CYA is properly adjusted (say to 50 ppm) on a properly balanced pool to about 15K gallons? Ballpark? I probably am more interested in someone in a similar situation actuals than a calculation anyway...
I am just trying to figure logistics out of buying and storing the chemicals at present since there isn't anything else I can do at this point. One thing about houses here is there is zippo, nada storage area. Which is hard coming from a 1152 sqft garage and a 1500 sq ft 1/4 not finished basement, trust me.
IF I get lucky the rebar crew might come next week, but they are still scheduled for 7/31. I'm really quite ticked because if the walls don't collapse in the monsoon we will eventually get, I will otherwise be pumping mud out of the hole with my utility pump, I guarantee. (If I don't that will delay them more!)
I took a good look at the plumbing and I think the autofill is unfortunately plumbed to the hard water line (even though I requested otherwise-- I left for two days, see what I get?), so that should be an interesting and challenging fix for me in the future. I am not sure how to change that internally in the house, and if I did it would be expensive. In Tucson, I may very well put a little plastic shed up and buy a cheap water softener for the pool and also use it to store everything else except liquid chlorine. I do see a SWCG in the future just to help clean everything up, but the overall hardness and scaling here scares me. Yes I am aware I don't want to fill with soft, but refilling on an autofill should be desirable.
Our water here seems to be more minerals than water, and even though it varies from 150 ppm Ca/Mg hardness to about 330 ppm depending on season according to the water epartment, if you run a TDS meter on it it's like 500+ ppm year around.. so who knows what it is filled with? I've never gotten a reply when I've asked the water department. Almost every pool I see here has (bad) scaling at the water line so I am trying to also plan in advance on how to fight that.
Is there any value to me sending a sample off to a reliable lab to see what metals are in the water? If I didn't brew my beer from RO here (I think the water here is hopeless for that purpose) I might have already sent a sample off.
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Now bring your wife here to met us so we can support her while she kicks some PB fanny!
