Finally stopped chasing CH down and just let it ride

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Had a customer last week fighting calcium climbing every month, kept dumping money into partial drains. Mine's been doing the same thing slow and steady for two years, fill water here is just loaded with it. Stopped fighting it once I got a real test and saw CH was high but saturation index was still fine, pH and alkalinity balanced against it. Water's been crystal clear the whole time, no scale on the tile, nothing. Pool store kept telling this guy to drain because CH read 500 something on their test, never once asked about his pH or alkalinity. Checked it myself with the K-2006 off the truck and he wasn't anywhere near scaling territory. Saved him a few hundred gallons of water and a weekend of work. Point is high CH alone doesn't mean anything, context matters.

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Our fill water here in Round Rock runs hard too and I about had a heart attack when my CH read high one test, called the pool store ready to drain some out before I even thought it through. Pulled out the K-2006 and actually looked at the whole picture, pH and alkalinity were right where they needed to be so the water wasnt going to scale anything, just left it alone and havent had a lick of trouble on the tile or the cell in four seasons. That pool store checking just the one number and skipping straight to drain is exactly the upsell pattern that got me out the door looking for a real kit in the first place.