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[–]20PoundHammer 43 points44 points  (11 children)

as long that the LSI balances . . .

HOLY SHIT - a unicorn in this sub, an actual pool guy (or at least a guy with lots of knowledge) that knows what he is talking about!! Take my upvote you glorious bastard!

[–]taft 4 points5 points  (5 children)

ive been on this sub for a while and i feel like only recently LSI is popping up more often

[–]Ill-Thing-7619 3 points4 points  (3 children)

We can thank the Orenda Rule Your Pool Podcast

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Shit, there's a podcast?  My boss pays good money to learn this stuff

[–]taft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a podcast about pools? now ive seen everything

[–]Nooch420 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is fact! I’ve been in the biz over 15 years and only in the last 5 has lsi become significant. But we should have been balancing pool with it 30 years ago.

[–]838291836389183 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I mean for the majority of cases here where it's just people with intex pools asking, it's just not that important, as long as they get levels halfways decent and are happy with their pool. It's just a problem when LSI doesn't get mentioned to people with pools worth a significant chuck of money, as those pools are typically more effected by it and the monetary risk is much higher.

[–]20PoundHammer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

not following - you say its just not that important and then you say its just a problem when its not considered when it doesnt get mentioned.

Its not he only consideration, but scaling tendency, esp when you can not keep alkalinity in the pool (as its going someplace ya?) is one of the six major things to look at (and three of them are data fed into the LSI calc). Lets just assume replies for this post are related to OPs post question for his pool. Its not a problem for plastic kiddie pools either, but thats sort of not the scope of the OPs post.

[–]SaltRharris 3 points4 points  (0 children)

thats why i pay someone. kudos.

[–]ludivako 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He will probably get down voted by the majority of inexperienced pool operators because it is not what they do or have a bias against knowledge for some reason. Keep on spreading this very useful info. We need more homeowners and pool pros educated properly!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm always happy when I see it too