hard water

[nick1628]

I have an 18x48 round pool and have a hard water problem can any one help

[aylad]

Is it creating a problem in your pool? Can you please describe the problem and post a set of test results taken on your pool water with a drop-based kit (no strips!) to help us advise you better?

When new users make posts, they go into a queue and wait for either Ben or one of the mods to "approve" it before it goes to the forum, which is why you didn't see your post immediately. We try to mod them in as quickly as we can, but sometimes you will see some lag time between your post and seeing it actually on the forum, if none of us are logged in at the time. I deleted your second post that was a duplicate of this one....

By the way, welcome to the forum!

[nick1628]

I just got the pool up and trying to get all levels to a normal zone

[PoolDoc]

"Normal" is not an important characteristic of pool water: "clear", "sanitary", "safe", "comfortable" are. The pool chemical industry sells lots and lots of chemicals to people who are trying to get their water to meet some rather artificial standard of "normal", based on some pretty random and flaky test methods ('guess-strips').

What you have realize is that pool stores make 3 - 10x as much off pools with water problems, as they do from pools that are operating smoothly. Most pool stores would go broke, if most pool owners learned how to fix what they needed to . . . and how to leave all the rest alone.

If you'll complete the Pool Chart:

Pool Chart Entry Form

and post some test results, we can tell you more. But often, hard water is no problem at all for pools.