Hello, a bit about my mission. I have learned a lot about the chemistry of pools mainly plaster types. I had my Pool water cleaned via a Pool water Filtration service in May so my pool was never empty. The water was crystal clear and all my chemicals were right on. THEN before I became more educated about this stuff, I hired a new pool service who shocked my pool to death and threw in about four pucks at a time to sanitize, so in one month times, my CYA doubled- now at the upper limit at 90 ppm and calcium almost doubled too at 375 ppm. At that point, the damage was done before I realized how I should best treat my pool going forward. I fired them and now take care of my pool myself but not happy I have to keep about 2-3 times as much chlorine in my pool now (7-12ppm).
So my goal now is to keep those things out of my pool that are harmful and or will cause me to need to clean my water again. Logic tells me now, that water does not get old to where you have to get rid of it, it's the stuff you stick into the water that builds up and creates the problem causing you to need to "clean" the water (the better way) or "throughout and refill" (which causes more balancing issues) as long as you do proper maintenance.
I realized I want to keep certain chemicals/minerals to their required minimum, such as; CYA, Calcium, salt. CYA has been stopped, but I have such hard water 190ppm or 11 grain per gallon that the Calcium will become my bigger problem eventually. So my plan is to install a whole house water conditioner which was on my wishlist anyway only using Potassium Chloride. This will remove the Calcium/mag scale problem all around not just the pool and not add any more salt than what I get from my liquid chlorine, which by the way, seems to be falling out of solution into the bottom of my Liquidator feeder, so that's good news too that I can just dump out.
I already understand the use of Potassium pellets with be more costly, but I will avoid some of the pitfalls of using Sodium too and Potassium doesn't give your skin that slimy feeling I understand along with I can use it in my fish tank and plants love it. Although I hear you don't get much sodium, you do exchange calcium (negative ions) in the water for Sodium (positive ions) on the beads, so that will be 190 PPM of calcium gone I hope and salt in exchange I don't need.
Has anyone done this with their pool? Does Potassium cause any problems in a pool? I have to manually fill my pool so I would just make sure it comes out the exterior backyard faucet. I just learned something more, the sodium Chloride used in water softening once exchanged with the calcium turns in to Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) WOW.....So if I were to used a Sodium based water conditioner, I will have more PH problems it sounds like but Potassium is known for a lower PH, that just might be the kicker.
So my goal now is to keep those things out of my pool that are harmful and or will cause me to need to clean my water again. Logic tells me now, that water does not get old to where you have to get rid of it, it's the stuff you stick into the water that builds up and creates the problem causing you to need to "clean" the water (the better way) or "throughout and refill" (which causes more balancing issues) as long as you do proper maintenance.
I realized I want to keep certain chemicals/minerals to their required minimum, such as; CYA, Calcium, salt. CYA has been stopped, but I have such hard water 190ppm or 11 grain per gallon that the Calcium will become my bigger problem eventually. So my plan is to install a whole house water conditioner which was on my wishlist anyway only using Potassium Chloride. This will remove the Calcium/mag scale problem all around not just the pool and not add any more salt than what I get from my liquid chlorine, which by the way, seems to be falling out of solution into the bottom of my Liquidator feeder, so that's good news too that I can just dump out.
I already understand the use of Potassium pellets with be more costly, but I will avoid some of the pitfalls of using Sodium too and Potassium doesn't give your skin that slimy feeling I understand along with I can use it in my fish tank and plants love it. Although I hear you don't get much sodium, you do exchange calcium (negative ions) in the water for Sodium (positive ions) on the beads, so that will be 190 PPM of calcium gone I hope and salt in exchange I don't need.
Has anyone done this with their pool? Does Potassium cause any problems in a pool? I have to manually fill my pool so I would just make sure it comes out the exterior backyard faucet. I just learned something more, the sodium Chloride used in water softening once exchanged with the calcium turns in to Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) WOW.....So if I were to used a Sodium based water conditioner, I will have more PH problems it sounds like but Potassium is known for a lower PH, that just might be the kicker.