Feed Your Water Or Else It Will Feed On Your Pool Cement

Water is always seeking balance. It has to do this due to its fundamental chemical nature. If it were any other way then life on earth wouldn’t be possible.

When you buy a new pool and put hungry water into your brand new pool, the water starts to dissolve the cement from your pool immediately. Unbalanced water will take 10, 20, 30, pounds of cement from your pool plaster within a day or two.

Water is hungry.

And the water will keep taking more and more cement from your pool, and calcium from pumps, heaters, skin, pool toys, vacuum cleaners, and more to feed itself.

This means that you will need to replace your plaster much sooner than you otherwise would and your plaster job will start to show signs of wear much earlier than that.

So what is the solution? The solution is to feed the water. This is one of the biggest reasons to have plenty of calcium in your pool; there are other great reasons as well, but those reasons don’t cost $20,000+ dollars.

This is true of all types of cement pools; quartz, pebble, white plaster, etc. It’s even true of liner and fiberglass pools, although those pools have more time to get it right before the water can start causing significant damage to their surfaces.

But cement pools? The expensive kind of pools? Those pools lose cement within minutes of unbalanced water going into them. Although you may not be able to see it, picture a bag of cement and pouring it into your pool; that’s what is being removed from your pool.

I like to keep the calcium high in the pool for this and a few other reasons. As Jarrod from Orenda says “Calcium is the bedrock of water balance.” Because pool water that is satiated is a lot easier to manage than hungry pool water.

The biggest hurdle in getting pool owners to use calcium in their pool is that this extra step feels preventative. It's like people would rather go to the doctor for an illness than go to the gym to prevent it.

But not using calcium in your pool is more like going to the boxing gym and getting punched in the face and then going to the doctor. Calcium makes balancing your water easier and cheaper, even before we consider preventing your pool from being eaten alive.

If you are interested in having my proactive pool care program delivered to your door, and you live in the CR210 area of St Johns County, FL, reach out to me.