- Sep 1, 2011
- 545
- Pool Size
- 21000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool Universal40
I've never had a SWCG. When I bought the house we used a pool maintenance company for the first couple of months. After what the maintenance guy was saying didn't add up, I found TFP and started learning how to properly maintain the pool. Until I got a test kit and started doing it right, I continued with the previous method of adding powdered chlorine (calcium hypochlorite, chlorine bonded to calcium in a stable powder form) and tr-chlor pucks (calcium, cyanuric acid, and chlorine bonded together and formed into a hard "hocky puck" that's meant to dissolve slowly) after I got the test kit, I switched to liquid Chlorine (6% bleach) and got much better control of my pool, but the damage had already been done. 3 years into owning the pool, I had some tiles fall off of the spa, and started seeing some plaster damage in the spa (exacerbated by a bad check valve that allowed the spa to drain back to the pool). I had the tiles re set and re-grouted then, and a couple years later when I had the money, I had the entire pool re-plastered. Now, 5 years after that, I've had some of the same tiles come off again, and now they need to be re attached and re grouted again.
That wall of text was all to say, it didn't have anything to do with the type or amount of chlorine, but probably poor control of pH, Calcium Hardness, and just age and freeze/thaw cycles
That wall of text was all to say, it didn't have anything to do with the type or amount of chlorine, but probably poor control of pH, Calcium Hardness, and just age and freeze/thaw cycles