We just fixed a catastrophic leak in our pool that drained it dry. (I wrote about the cause in another thread and it proved to be an easy to fix with no impact on anything really. The only real casualty was a leaky pump seal due to it running with minimal water for many hours. Any easy fix I’ve handled before.)
We are in northern CA with no freezing problem. We also have a pool cover.
The pool was just refilled and I’ve got the pH corrected and the Cl level up and stable. Ca is a little low (130 ppm) but our make up water is high in Ca so I may just let it creep up slowly.
I’m torn as to whether I should add stabilizer and salt or wait until spring. For the previous 10 winters , the salt generator has worked intermittently as the pool temperature flirts with the low temp cutoff. It works well enough that I need to add liquid chlorine perhaps once a month. As to stabilizer, the cover is only off for 10 minutes a week to check the chemistry.
One set of logic says to keep the chemistry simple. Without CYA, I can get by with lower levels of chlorine. Come late March when the solar heating starts to warm up the pool, I can add the salt and CYA.
The other set of logic says get everything done now. The downside is that with CYA the chlorine generator probably won’t run enough to maintain the higher Cl levels.
Advice?
We are in northern CA with no freezing problem. We also have a pool cover.
The pool was just refilled and I’ve got the pH corrected and the Cl level up and stable. Ca is a little low (130 ppm) but our make up water is high in Ca so I may just let it creep up slowly.
I’m torn as to whether I should add stabilizer and salt or wait until spring. For the previous 10 winters , the salt generator has worked intermittently as the pool temperature flirts with the low temp cutoff. It works well enough that I need to add liquid chlorine perhaps once a month. As to stabilizer, the cover is only off for 10 minutes a week to check the chemistry.
One set of logic says to keep the chemistry simple. Without CYA, I can get by with lower levels of chlorine. Come late March when the solar heating starts to warm up the pool, I can add the salt and CYA.
The other set of logic says get everything done now. The downside is that with CYA the chlorine generator probably won’t run enough to maintain the higher Cl levels.
Advice?
