Pristiva Primer and Activator

[PoolDoc]

[ When you get your kit, post the results and I'll see if I can help you. There a couple of practical ways to lower scale producing chemicals in pool water, even when the fill water is pretty messed up. Besides test results, we'll need details on your pump and filter system, since you have to take those minerals out as some form of deposited debris on the filter (or maybe, on the pool bottom, in which case you need "vacuum to waste" capability). ]

But, it's not your fault that the thread took the turn it did. We just work pretty hard to slam the door on new mystery goo products -- we see several new ones each year. To date, since the inception of the forum, we've not seen a single such product that turned out to be worth the money. AND, we've seen many that turned out to be harmful to your pool.

It's *possible* that Pritiva will turn out to be the exception. However the odds are very much against it.

Making it even LESS likely that it will be a worthwhile product is the fact that the Pristiva brand unit is being run by a former BioLab executive. BioLab has a 30 year history of taking $0.50/lb potatoes and turning them into $6.00/lb

pommes frites!

More recently (and more desperately), they've been making product blends that -- in our experience -- make pools more DIFFICULT to run.

I've talked to many BioLab technical people over the years. I have ALWAYS found them very knowledgeable, and I've never been lied to (that I know of) by a BioLab'r. But, I and several others here, have found that they "tell the truth" in amazingly artful ways. To put it another way, if President Clinton had learned to 'tell the truth' like a BioLab'r, he probably never would have been impeached for perjury, and no one would have ever known about Monica!

Because of this experience several of us have shared, we NEVER trust anyone who has an association with BioLab. There are several 'tell-tales' in the Pristiva guy's posts that are consistent with the BioLab 'way of truth-telling'. He might be straight up, but we have no way of knowing that, since he's not ready to share any of that proof or those studies he has referred to.

There can be an EXCELLENT reason for not sharing such information. I have a file drawer full of such studies (none from BioLab!), and what many of them show is that the product studied 'works' in the sense that a lab evaluation can detect an improvement, but the improvement is so small that no one would notice in the field.

My guess is, Pristiva does work in that manner: well enough to detect but not well enough to matter!