We are looking at installing large natural (Tennessee stone) rock water features in our pool. I have read that this will throw off water chemistry and require significant amounts of muratic acid. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Natural stone effect on water chemistry?
- Thread starter KeysNole
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,058
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
The stone used will not effect your water chemistry.
The aeration caused by the water feature will cause your pH to rise requiring acid to keep pH in the 7s.
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The aeration caused by the water feature will cause your pH to rise requiring acid to keep pH in the 7s.
Aeration - Further Reading
www.troublefreepool.com
- May 3, 2014
- 58,605
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Yep.. Here is my lesson learned.. It does scrub off with acid and has never caused additional issues...
As far as the pH is concerned, few glugs of acid every other day is all that is required. We really love the waterfall so it is a very small price to pay in our view...
I never has staining or Iron until we have our Tile coping replaced with Stone. Now that I know what it is and the cause I just added jacks Pink stuff every once in a while..
Can you seal the stone?