Quote Originally Posted by roll tide
I have a vinyl liner with a heater. However, the heater won't be hooked to natural gas until September (gas co. to charge $800).

Then the calcium is much less important than if you had a concrete pool, but you still need some.

Someone, Sean I think, indicated a few days ago that calcium is still important with the SWG.

I would think that a lack of calcium would be an advantage with a SWG since you'll have less scaling, but I definitely defer to PoolSean and Mark from Watermaid on all things SWG.

My screenname refers to the greatest football dynasty in the history of college sports. Are you from Alabama? I am originally and graduated from Jacksonville State, but grew up watching the Bear.
My wife's an Auburn alumnae so I side with her in that minor rivalry (I'm a Buckeye myself). Does Alabama still have a team? I hadn't heard anything from them the last decade or so. I guess that's why I thought of the detergent. My mistake.