wasn't sure where to put this, so I'll put it here...we are going to be away from home for probably 3 weeks to a month, and after finally taking control of my pool and getting the water perfectly balanced I now have to leave it for an extended period.
also a little concerned about the fires in so cal, we haven't had much ash falling but have had some. no way of knowing of course how much more we'll have in the time I'm away...
what's the best way for me to proceed here? I have friends who can at least come over and check the water level for me, and the SWG should take care of the chlorine part, but I'm more worried about the pH which is going to be above 8 for an extended period without anyone to add acid...I have extremely hard water and am constantly fighting scaling issues, both on the waterline and in the salt cell. I have been adding acid roughly once a week or so once I get to 7.8, dropping it to 7.2. if I drop it to 7.0, that acid addition period extends to almost two weeks (I added enough acid to get me to 7.0 on 8/23 and then didn't need to add more until 9/4, so 12 days).
also a little concerned about the fires in so cal, we haven't had much ash falling but have had some. no way of knowing of course how much more we'll have in the time I'm away...
what's the best way for me to proceed here? I have friends who can at least come over and check the water level for me, and the SWG should take care of the chlorine part, but I'm more worried about the pH which is going to be above 8 for an extended period without anyone to add acid...I have extremely hard water and am constantly fighting scaling issues, both on the waterline and in the salt cell. I have been adding acid roughly once a week or so once I get to 7.8, dropping it to 7.2. if I drop it to 7.0, that acid addition period extends to almost two weeks (I added enough acid to get me to 7.0 on 8/23 and then didn't need to add more until 9/4, so 12 days).