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Old 05-05-2016, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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A local pool service -- Don’t Drain Your Pool -- runs your pool water through a mobile Reverse Osmosis system, returning very clean water to your pool (TDS at about 3 ppm), putting waste water containing all the hardness minerals from Lake Mead down the drain.
You don't want to fill your pool completely with RO filtered water. It will be in a corrosive state (high negative Langelier Index) because it doesn't have enough dissolved calcium carbonate. Filtering might be useful to get the TDS to a lower number, but you don't want to remove all of it.
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Old 05-05-2016, 05:52 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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This poster is a pool expert, btw. He helped me fix the green monster. Even though he did ,accidentally? spray me with the fountain.
I feel so bad for that one! It was a total accident!
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Old 05-05-2016, 05:53 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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You don't want to fill your pool completely with RO filtered water. It will be in a corrosive state (high negative Langelier Index) because it doesn't have enough dissolved calcium carbonate. Filtering might be useful to get the TDS to a lower number, but you don't want to remove all of it.
Yes, wouldn't this damage the plaster?
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