- Mar 19, 2021
- 186
- Pool Size
- 15000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Hiya:
In the process of building IG vinyl pool, while soaking up as much good sense from here as I can to prepare myself.
It just occurred to me, every time we go to the cottage in summer - long weekends and the odd week here and there - no-one will be home balancing the chemistry as I'm not planning to pay PB for weekly maintenance. Chlorine will be taken care of by SWG. However, PH won't. And I guess with SWG running constantly in the background, PH will drift materially.
(I will consider adding an Intelliph in the future, but only if 100% necessary - and would rather not).
So my question is, how long can you sustain out-of-range PH before problems arise? I'm guessing immediate term is subotimal (mild eye/skin irritation, etc) and then there's some trigger point beyond which bad things escalate (equipment corroded, vinyl liner damaged, etc).. what I don't know is whether these are problems that emerge after prolonged unbalance (weeks and months), or if there's any real damage done quickly after a week or two of inbalance.
Grateful for any thoughts
In the process of building IG vinyl pool, while soaking up as much good sense from here as I can to prepare myself.
It just occurred to me, every time we go to the cottage in summer - long weekends and the odd week here and there - no-one will be home balancing the chemistry as I'm not planning to pay PB for weekly maintenance. Chlorine will be taken care of by SWG. However, PH won't. And I guess with SWG running constantly in the background, PH will drift materially.
(I will consider adding an Intelliph in the future, but only if 100% necessary - and would rather not).
So my question is, how long can you sustain out-of-range PH before problems arise? I'm guessing immediate term is subotimal (mild eye/skin irritation, etc) and then there's some trigger point beyond which bad things escalate (equipment corroded, vinyl liner damaged, etc).. what I don't know is whether these are problems that emerge after prolonged unbalance (weeks and months), or if there's any real damage done quickly after a week or two of inbalance.
Grateful for any thoughts