Do Vinyl Pools Need Calcium

Your pool can only hold so much calcium in your pool dissolved as a calcium salt before it reaches its saturation point.

Do vinyl pools need calcium.

However it s not as big or pressing of an issue as chlorine ph and all the other stuff. For vinyl pools calcium should be between 150 250 ppm. Here s why it happens. If calcium hardness goes above 400 ppm you will likely see a white.

To be safe make sure you keep the ph in your vinyl pool above 7 2. Yes calcium is still important to all types of pools. Neither vinyl nor fiberglass has available calcium to donate to the water like a plaster pool. But there is little evidence that this is so for copper or brass components found in pools built in the last 15 years.

A low level can result in foaming which is unpleasant but shouldn t harm the liner. Our treatments remove almost any calcium buildup in pool surfaces. Any additional calcium forms in the water as calcium carbonate and is visible and suspended in the water. Low calcium as is often the case will cause long term serious damage especially to plaster vinyl liners grout in between tiles metal rails and even concrete decking around the pool.

That is to say in calcium deficient water a plaster surface gives up necessary surface calcium to attain equilibrium with the water causing premature surface failure. Generally i don t have my customers deal with the calcium until the pool is sanitized and clear. It s ok to wait a week or so on the calcium while you fix the other issues. For you engineers there is some evidence calcium protects metal equipment made of steel or iron.

Plain old water believe it or not is very aggressive.